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1819 Bridgerton or Jane Austen Style Pink Merino Wool Redingote, Or Coat, With Military Styling. #Bridgerton #JaneAusten #RegencyFashion #FashionPlate #French

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1819 Pink Merino Wool Redingote, French. Merino wool coat over a white dress with a high lace collar, military style buttons decoration and shoulder pads, matched with a black velour, or velvet, hat with a high front brim and lined with white satin. Military style shoulder pads and front buttons. It was fashionable at the time to wear military inspired clothing to show support of all the fighting men involved in the Napoleonic and other wars. The type of outfit young Regency Era ladies would have worn if they were out shopping on Bond Street, walking in a park, or taking a carriage ride through Hyde Park. Fashion Plate via Journal des Dames et des Modes, or Costume Parisien. Fashion Plate via Journal des Dames et des Modes, or Costume Parisien.

Definition Redingote Or Pelisse Or Walking Dress Or Coat: French word developed from English words, riding coat. Long fitted outdoor coat worn over other garments, especially light-weight muslin dresses, for warmth. Often left open at the front to show off the dress underneath. Sometimes cut away in front. Originally made with several capes and trimmed with large buttons. French fashion plates call these coats Redingotes and they are designed for women, men and children. English fashion plates call them a Pelisse, a walking dress, Promenade dress, or Carriage dress.

1819 Pink Merino Wool Redingote, French. Merino wool coat over a white dress with a high lace collar, military style buttons decoration and shoulder pads, matched with a black velour, or velvet, hat with a high front brim and lined with white satin. The type of outfit young Regency Era ladies would have worn if they were out shopping on Bond Street, walking in a park, or taking a carriage ride through Hyde Park. Fashion Plate via Journal des Dames et des Modes, or Costume Parisien. Fashion Plate via Journal des Dames et des Modes, or Costume Parisien.
1819 January Red Redingote, French. Also called a Pelisse or Walking Dress in England. Merino wool coat over a white dress with a high lace collar, matched with a black velour, or velvet, hat lined with white satin. Fashion Plate via suzilove.com and Journal des Dames et des Modes, or Costume Parisien.

1819 Bridgerton or Jane Austen Style Pink Merino Wool Redingote, Or Coat, With Military Styling. #Bridgerton #JaneAusten #RegencyFashion #FashionPlate #French https://books2read.com/SuziLoveFashionWomen1815-1819

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Want to know about music in the households of Jane Austen and the Bridgertons? Music history from the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries. #Music #Bridgerton #RegencyEra #JaneAusten #GeorgianEra

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Music history from the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries. Pianos, pianofortes, harps, viols, violins played during Jane Austen’s times. Musical Instruments were so important in most of the more affluent households in history that large industries grew all around the world to manufacture instruments, musical accessories, and to print sheet music. Musical instruction and encouragement could be found everywhere and both young ladies and gentlemen were encouraged to have musical appreciation. And of course, playing music was on the list of social requirements for all young ladies desirous of becoming a wife and homemaker.

London became Europe’s leading centre for the manufacture of scientific instruments and this led to the manufacture of more musical instruments as well as factories developed and rail transport helped the faster distribution of goods to regional areas. One of the first places that music was used to tell stories and to share enjoyment was in Christmas music. Because music was such an integral part of households, music was always a feature in Magazines. There were advertisements everywhere for musical instruments for sale, for sheet music, and for music lessons.  And of course, of most interest to the ladies were the hundreds of fashion plates included in magazines where people were depicted with their musical instruments.

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1804 December 2nd. Danish Ambassador’s Suit made for the crowning of Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris. #RegencyFashion #HistoricalFashion #Napoleon

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1804 December 2nd. Danish Ambassador’s Suit made for the crowning of Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris. Christopher Wilhelm Dreyer (1737-1810), attended the pompous event as a representative of the Danish diplomatic corps. Lavishly decorated clothes probably made for occasion but not used as Napoleon wanted special clothing worn. natmus.dk/historisk-viden

1804 December 2nd. Danish Ambassador's Suit made for the crowning of Napoleon Bonaparte as emperor in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris. Christopher Wilhelm Dreyer (1737-1810), attended the pompous event as a representative of the Danish diplomatic corps. Lavishly decorated clothes probably made for occasion but not used as Napoleon wanted special clothing worn. natmus.dk/historisk-viden
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Love the Bridgerton Series? Fan of Jane Austen? What did men wear in the early 1800s? Suits, hats, shoes, underclothing, military and bedroom fashions. #Bridgerton #RegencyFashion #JaneAusten #BritishHistory

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Love the Bridgerton Series? Fan of Jane Austen? What did men wear in the early 1800s? Suits, hats, shoes, underclothing, military and bedroom fashions. #Bridgerton #RegencyFashion #JaneAusten #BritishHistory.

The Regency Era saw a wide variety of acceptable pants for men. Breeches were worn as part of a man’s daily outfit during the early 1800s and were necessary for formal occasions, such as court appearances, during the entire Regency Era. However, younger gentlemen moved away from breeches for daytime wear around 1807 and adopted a variety of long pants called trousers, pantaloons, buckskins or inexpressables. Knee-length breeches, worn with stockings, continued to be worn by older gentlemen through the entire Regency Era.

Around 1807, upper class gentlemen wore trousers held up by suspenders or pantaloons, which were closely fitted and worn with tall boots. Buckskins, made from deerskin, were comfortable to wear for riding. Inexpressibles were very tight leggings that left little to the imagination of young ladies. Every Regency man’s outfit included a hat, gloves, shoes or boots, and a selection of added accessories from a walking stick, watch on a chain, fobs, coin purse and a handkerchief.

HN_23_Fashion Men 1800-1819 History Notes Book 23 What was fashionable for men in early 1800s, or Jane Austen's time, or Regency Era? Suits, hats, shoes, underclothing, fashion accessories, military and bedroom fashions. French fashions and Georgian and Regency Era fashions from Great Britain were copied around the world. https://books2read.com/SuziLoveFashionMen1800-1819
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1808 Fashionable English Couple Dressed As In Jane Austen’s times. #RegencyFashion #JaneAusten #HistoricalFashion

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1808 Fashionable English Couple, Dressed As In Jane Austen’s times. Lady in a white dress with pointed hem decorations, fitted white hat tied under her chin with yellow ribbon, yellow shawl and pink slippers. Gentleman in formal dress of blue tailcoat, black knee breeches, white stockings, black shoes, black bicorn hat, curly hair style and sideburns and a sword. Interestingly, this is English style fashions from a French magazine. Fashion Plate via Journal des Dames et des Modes, or Costume Parisien.

1808 Fashionable English Couple. Lady in a white dress with pointed hem decorations, fitted white hat tied under her chin with yellow ribbon, yellow shawl and pink slippers. Gentleman in formal dress of blue tailcoat, black knee breeches, white stockings, black shoes, black bicorn hat, curly hair style and side burns and a sword. Fashion Plate via Journal des Dames et des Modes, or Costume Parisien.
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1820s Early Bridgerton Style High-Waisted, Striped Silk Pelisse, European. #Bridgerton #RegencyFashion #Pelisse #Coat

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1820s Early Striped Silk Pelisse, European. High-waisted but just slightly below the very high Empire style, long sleeves are full at the shoulder and narrow at the wrists, straight front and gathered back to give fullness, and elaborate buttoned front. via Metropolitan Museum, N.Y.C., U.S.A. Definition Redingote Or Pelisse Or Walking Dress Or Coat: French word developed from English words, riding coat. Long fitted outdoor coat worn over other garments … Continue reading →

Do you read or write Historical Romance? Want a glimpse under dresses worn during the Bridgerton and Jane Austen years? Overview of corsets. #Bridgerton #JaneAusten #GeorgianFashion #RegencyFashion #Corset

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This book shows how body wraps, stays, and corsets were worn to create a variety of fashionable silhouettes through past centuries. Corsets flattened breasts and accentuated rounded hips or pushed up breasts and showed off the bust line depending on the fashions of the time and the desired silhouette. Includes corsets through the Georgian, Regency, Victorian and Edwardian Eras and Jane Austen’s lifetime.  Overview of corsets through history, including the Georgian, Regency, Victorian and Edwardian Eras and Jane Austen’s lifetime. History Notes Book 14.

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HN_14_Corsets Overview History Notes Nonfiction Book 14 This book shows how body wraps, stays, and corsets were worn to create a variety of fashionable silhouettes through past centuries. Corsets flattened breasts and accentuated rounded hips or pushed up breasts and showed off the bust line depending on the fashions of the time and the desired silhouette. Includes corsets through the Georgian, Regency, Victorian and Edwardian Eras and Jane Austen's lifetime. Overview of corsets through history, including the Georgian, Regency, Victorian and Edwardian Eras and Jane Austen's lifetime. https://books2read.com/SuziLoveCorsetBook14
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1806 Ladies In Jane Austen Style High-Waisted White Dresses With Fichus, Or Shoulder Shawls. #RegencyFashion #JaneAusten #FashionHistory

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1806 Two Ladies In Walking Dresses, French. White cotton dresses with bodice trims, short puffed sleeves, orange and pink Fichus or shoulder shawls, pink poke bonnet and white turban, extra long gloves, cashmere shawl. Fashion Plate via Journal des Dames et des Modes, or Costume Parisien. These fashionable ensembles with a variety of fashionable and practical accessories would have been worn by Jane Austen and her family and friends during the day when out walking in the park or visiting village shops. Hats were a necessity to protect fair skin from the sun and scarfs and shawls added color and warmth to an outfit.

Definition Fichu: Draped  scarf or shawl worn about shoulders and tied in knot at breast, with ends hanging down loosely. Word, meaning negligee or careless, first used to describe breaking away from stiff collar of the past. 

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1816 April Blue Riding Habit With Full Skirt And Military Style Bodice in Bridgerton and Jane Austen style. #Bridgerton #RegencyFashion #JaneAusten #HistoricalFashion #Riding

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1816  Blue Riding Habit, French. High-waisted blue riding dress with a train, the long full skirt being necessary to cover a lady’s legs and preserve her modesty when riding side saddle. These riding habits were usually designed by men and were in two pieces, a jacket and a skirt, worn over a shirt. A military style bodice decoration, high pointed collar and a knotted pink dotted cravat worn underneath that imitate male styles, or even Dandy fashion. Sleeves are very long as was the trend in French riding habits. Yellow gloves and a masculine style beaver hat. This print was designed by Horace Vernet and engraved by Pierre Baquoy. Fashion Plate  via Journal des Dames et des Modes, or Costume Parisien. Although, there are very similar riding habit fashion plates in other magazines.

The type of outfit Jane Austen and her friends would have worn when they went horse riding. https://books2read.com/SuziLoveFashionWomen1815-1819

1816  Blue Riding Habit, French. High-waisted blue riding dress with a train, the long full skirt being necessary to cover a lady’s legs and preserve her modesty when riding side saddle. These riding habits were usually designed by men and were in two pieces, a jacket and a skirt, worn over a shirt. A military style bodice decoration, high pointed collar and a knotted pink dotted cravat worn underneath that imitate male styles, or even Dandy fashion. Sleeves are very long as was the trend in French riding habits. Yellow gloves and a masculine style beaver hat. This print was designed by Horace Vernet and engraved by Pierre Baquoy. Fashion Plate  via Journal des Dames et des Modes, or Costume Parisien. Although, there are very similar riding habit fashion plates in other magazines.
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1802-1812 ca. Dancing Carricature Series. Four women being instructed in dancing by a master playing a violin in Jane Austen’s years. #JaneAusten #Cartoon #Dancing #RegencyEra

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1802-1812 ca. Dancing Or La Dansomanie Series. Four women being instructed in dancing before a mirror by a master playing a violin. Le Bon Genre Description Plate 12. Via British Museum, London, UK. britishmuseum.org (PD-Art)

1802-1812 ca. Dancing Or La Dansomanie Series. Four women being instructed in dancing before a mirror by a master playing a violin. Le Bon Genre Description Plate 12. Via British Museum, London, UK. britishmuseum.org (PD-Art)
D2D_RL_4_YLD_Young Lady's Day Regency Life Series Book 4 by Suzi Love. A light-hearted look at the longer Regency years and an easy to read view of what a young lady did, wore, and lived. https://books2read.com/suziloveYLD