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What did Jane Austen wear? Her family and friends wore elegant and pretty fashions in the early 1800s. #RegencyFashion #JaneAusten #HistoricalFashion

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What did Jane Austen and friends wear? Early 1800s fashions were elegant and pretty with high waists and fabrics that were almost transparent. These Empire style gowns, named after Napoleon’s first Empress, became popular throughout Europe, and were then copied around the world. Colorful outwear was added to make an ensemble more attractive and warmer. History Notes Book 26 Fashion Women 1805-1809.
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The Empire waist gown defined women’s fashion during the Regency Era. ‘Empire’ is the name given in France to the period when Napoleon built his French Empire. High-waisted, loose gowns were adopted by the aristocracy as a symbol of turning away from the fussy, elaborate and expensive clothing worn in the 1700s. Jean-Jaques Rousseau advocated copying peasants and returning to a simpler life and more natural fashions. Unrestricting clothing was part of the new Democracy in France and these simpler and flowing fashions were adopted all over Europe, including Britain and despite the continual wars being fought against France during the early 1800s. Not even war stopped fashions from being copied everywhere.

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16th-19th Centuries Gentlemen’s Banyans, Or Dressing Gowns, As worn In Jane Austen’s Times. #GeorgianEra #RegencyEra #Banyan #JaneAusten

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16th-19th Centuries Gentlemen’s Banyans. Banyan’s were worn before the Georgian Era and continued to be popular through the Regency and Victorian Eras for Men’s At-Home Fashion. After this, banyans were replaced buy shorter smoking jackets, yet all through these many hundred years banyans served the same purpose of being a comfortable yet respectable item of clothing that could be worn at home by men when they spent time in the evenings with family or friends.

Fabrics imitating animal patterns and colors appeared in European fashionable dress as early as the 18th century, when elaborate trompe l’oeil silk designs emulated exotic furs intertwined with expensive laces. Such fabrics communicated a sense of luxury, wealth and power. Cultural crossdressing was a long-established tradition among merchants working in the East. While it helped them to assimilate into the local community, adopting exotic forms of dress at home also played an important part in fashioning their identity as a worldly traveller. International experience heightened social standing so wearing a banyan showed a high social status. Surviving garments from the 18th and 19th centuries show that it changed little over time, other than to loosely reflect the fashionable line of menswear of the period in the cut of the skirts, choice of collar and fit of the body.

16th-19th Centuries. Collage of Gentlemen's BanyansDefinition Banyan: Loose coat worn by men as a dressing gown. Often worn with a matching waistcoat over shirt and pants in the comfort of their own home.
16th-19th Centuries. Collage of Gentlemen’s BanyansDefinition Banyan: Loose coat worn by men as a dressing gown. Often worn with a matching waistcoat over shirt and pants in the comfort of their own home.
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1809 Empire Style, Or High-Waisted Hand Embroidered Cotton Muslin Dress, England. #JaneAusten #RegencyEra #Fashion

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1809 Hand Embroidered Cotton Muslin Dress, England. Hand-embroidered cotton muslin, cotton (bobbin lace), shell (button), linen tape Measurements 143.0 cm (centre back) 68.8 cm (sleeve length) Credit Line National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/explore/collection/work/50825/

1809 ca. Empire Style, Or High-Waisted, Dress, English. Hand-embroidered white cotton muslin, cotton bobbin lace, shell buttons and linen tape. via National Gallery of Victoria, Australia. ngv.vic.gov
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1800 ca. Gentleman’s White Dimity Waistcoat, England. #JaneAusten #Regency #Fashion

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1800 ca. Gentleman’s White Dimity Waistcoat, England. This vest is typical of the move away from the 18th Century’s formal styles and fussy fabrics and matched the shift of women’s fashions towards lighter and airier styles and fabrics. via Whitaker Auction whitakerauction.smugmug.com Typical of a gentleman’s waistcoat, or vest, worn during the early 1800s, or Regency Era, or Jane Austen’s times.

1800 ca. Gentleman's White Dimity Waistcoat, England. via suzilove.com and Whitaker Auctions.
1800 ca. Gentleman’s White Dimity Waistcoat, England. via suzilove.com and Whitaker Auctions.

From the finish of the 18th century until 1820, men’s fashions in European and European-influenced countries moved away from the formal wear of brocades, lace, wigs and powder to more informal and relaxed styles. Focus was on undress rather than formal dress. Typical menswear in the early 1800s included a tailcoat, a vest or waistcoat, either breeches, pants, or the newer trousers, stockings, shoes or boots, all worn with an overcoat and hat. This basic ensemble was accessorized with some form of neckcloth or cravat, gloves, walking stick, cane or riding crop, handkerchief, fobs, watch and perhaps a quizzing glass or eye glass. 

Skirted coats were replaced with short-fronted, or cutaway, tailcoats worn over fitted waistcoats and plain, white linen shirts. Knee breeches were gradually replaced by tight-fitting pantaloons and later trousers, decorative shoes with buckles were replaced with a variety of boot styles, and fussy and ruffled neckwear gave way to intricately tied, white linen neck cloths. A Regency Era, or early 1800s, gentleman was outfitted in more practical fabrics, such as wool, cotton and buckskin rather than the fussy brocades and silks of the late 1700s. 

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1808 Richard Trevithick’s Steam Circus, Bloomsbury, London, U.K. Railway in Jane Austen and the Bridgerton times. #travel #JaneAusten #Bridgerton #railway

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1808 Richard Trevithick’s Steam Circus, Bloomsbury, London, U.K. Site where Trevithick ran his locomotive ‘Catch Me Who Can’. Trevithick wanted to prove that traveling by train was faster than on horseback. Locomotive ran at top speed of 19 km per hour and people paid a shilling to sit in an attached car and be pulled around. Via Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org (PD-ART) This was the start of the railway expansions across England in Jane Austen’s time.

1808 Richard Trevithick's Steam Circus, Bloomsbury, London, U.K. Site where Trevithick ran his locomotive 'Catch Me Who Can'. Trevithick wanted to prove that traveling by train was faster than on horseback. Locomotive ran at top speed of 19 km per hour and people paid a shilling to sit in an attached car and be pulled around. Via Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org (PD-ART)
1808 Richard Trevithick’s Steam Circus, Bloomsbury, London, U.K. Site where Trevithick ran his locomotive ‘Catch Me Who Can’. Trevithick wanted to prove that traveling by train was faster than on horseback. Locomotive ran at top speed of 19 km per hour and people paid a shilling to sit in an attached car and be pulled around. Via Wikimedia Commons commons.wikimedia.org (PD-ART)
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Regency Era writer or reader? Bridgerton and Jane Austen fan? A Coat Or Pelisse Or Redingote was a requisite Regency Era fashion accessory. #Bridgerton #RegencyEra #HistoricalFashion #JaneAusten

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What was fashionable outdoor wear for Jane Austen and contemporaries? Reticules, Spencers, and Pelisses, or Walking Dresses, Or Redingotes. History Notes Books 3, 4, and 5 By Suzi Love.

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Early 1800s Typical Regency Couple in a Curricle. #RegencyEra #JaneAusten #Carriage

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Early 1800s Typical Regency Couple in a Curricle. The sort of vehicle Jane Austen and her contemporaries would have driven in. Young men loved them and occasionally women drove them.

Early 1800s Typical Regency Couple in a Curricle.
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1816 Block Printed Quilt Panel made to celebrate the Marriage of Princess Charlotte to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. #RegencyEra #Royalty #BritishHistory #Sewing

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1816  Block Printed Quilt Panel made to celebrate the Marriage of Princess Charlotte to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.

Textile of block-printed white cotton in madder colours with pencilled blue. The cotton is printed with 9.5 octagonal panels intended to be cut out and applied to patchwork quilts. Each panels contains a bunch of flowers. Around the inner border is an inscription of Princess Charlotte of Wales married to Leopold Prince of Saxe-Coburg May 2, 1816. In the borders are three Prince of Wales feathers, the Royal Arms, and a crown on each side. At the end of the textile is printed a rectangular panel containing the manufacturers name and in a corner is the name ‘G. Swindels’.

This quilt has an excise stamp for 1816 and is inscribed ‘John Lowe and Co. Furniture Printers, Shepley Hall’, providing the name of the only identifiable manufacturer of these panels, although there are likely to have been others. John Lowe was a well-known firm of calico printers with large cotton factories and extensive bleaching grounds close to the River Tame near Ashton-under-Lyne in Lancashire.

Hand-quilting is done on a frame using needles called ‘betweens’. The stitches are executed with one hand; the other hand is kept underneath the quilt to feel for the needle. Small, uniform stitches (usually a ‘running stitch’) are taken through the three layers to form a decorative design. In ‘piecing’ or ‘patchwork’, small pieces of fabric are sewn together to produce a decorative design. The most enduring method in Britain is done by hand, and is known as ‘piecing over paper’. The pattern is first drawn onto paper and then accurately cut. Small pieces of fabric are tacked round each of the shapes, and then joined together from the back using overstitch. Most of the quilt top visible here has been pieced over paper, but in some areas the fabrics have been applied directly on to the earlier quilt that forms the wadding.

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1816 Quilt Panel, English. Block printed cotton panel showing roses, lilies and lilacs. via collections.vam.ac.uk_1
1816 Quilt Panel, English. Block printed cotton panel showing roses, lilies and lilacs. via collections.vam.ac.uk_1
1816 Quilt Panel, English. Block printed cotton panel showing roses, lilies and lilacs. via collections.vam.ac.uk_2
1816 Quilt Panel, English. Block printed cotton panel showing roses, lilies and lilacs. via collections.vam.ac.uk_2
1816 Quilt Panel, English. Block printed cotton panel showing roses, lilies and lilacs. via collections.vam.ac.uk 4
1816 Quilt Panel, English. Block printed cotton panel showing roses, lilies and lilacs. via collections.vam.ac.uk 4
1816 Quilt Panel, English. Block printed cotton panel showing roses, lilies and lilacs. via collections.vam.ac.uk 5
1816 Quilt Panel, English. Block printed cotton panel showing roses, lilies and lilacs. via collections.vam.ac.uk 5
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1799 November 24th ‘Parisian Ladies in Their Full Winter Dress for 1800’. Caricature By Isaac Cruikshank. #GeorgianEra #Cartoon #BritishHistory

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1799 November 24th ‘Parisian Ladies in Their Full Winter Dress for 1800’. By Isaac Cruikshank. Ridiculing excesses of late 1790s Parisian high-waisted Greek look gowns of transparent fabrics and extremely low cut bodices.Full Dress meant every possible accessory was added to outfits.g. elaborate hats, reticules or bags, anklets and jewels. Via British Museum, London, UK. britishmuseum.org (PD-Art)

1799 November 24th 'Parisian Ladies in Their Full Winter Dress for 1800'. By Isaac Cruikshank. Ridiculing excesses of late 1790s Parisian high-waisted Greek look gowns of transparent fabrics and extremely low cut bodices.Full Dress meant every possible accessory was added to outfits.g. elaborate hats, reticules or bags, anklets and jewels. Via Suzi Love - suzilove.com & British Museum, London, UK. britishmuseum.org (PD-Art)
1799 November 24th ‘Parisian Ladies in Their Full Winter Dress for 1800’. By Isaac Cruikshank. Ridiculing excesses of late 1790s Parisian high-waisted Greek look gowns of transparent fabrics and extremely low cut bodices.Full Dress meant every possible accessory was added to outfits.g. elaborate hats, reticules or bags, anklets and jewels. Via Suzi Love – suzilove.com & British Museum, London, UK. britishmuseum.org (PD-Art)
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1831-1850 ca. Reticule, English. Round bag of crimson silk with embroidery and a drawstring. via Museum Of London. #RomanticEra #VictorianEra #Fashion

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1831-1850 ca. Reticule, English. Round bag of crimson silk with embroidery and a drawstring. via Museum Of London.

1831-1850 ca. Reticule, English. Round bag of crimson silk with embroidery and a drawstring. via Museum Of London.
1831-1850 ca. Reticule, English. Round bag of crimson silk with embroidery and a drawstring. via Museum Of London.
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