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19th Century Silver Chatelaine With Vinaigrette, Thimble and Scissors as carried in Jane Austen’s and Bridgerton times. JaneAusten #Bridgerton #RegencyEra #France #Chatelaine

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19th Century Silver Chatelaine. Thimble holder, vinaigrette as a trumpet, watch case, scissors and a notebook. via auction.fr

Definition

  • The word Chatelaine is French and means the keeper of the keys
  • Chatelaine” derives from the Latin word for castle
  • In Medieval times, the chatelaine was in charge of the day-to-day running of the castle.

What did a chatelaine do?

  • Most important task was keeper of the keys.
  • Also ordered supplies, did bookkeeping, supervised servants, taught castle children, and organized guests.

What were chatelaines used for?

  • Castle keepers needed keys safe, yet easily accessible.
  • By 1700’s, a metal jeweled ornament hung from pockets, attached to belts, or by hooks into skirt waistbands
  • During 1800’s, women wore large collections of tools hung from chains
  • Young girls sewed and did needlework and needed to carry sewing notions eg scissors, thimbles
  • Worn by women of all classes, from workers to nobility
  • Varied depending on class and finances.
  • Made of silver, brass, steel, leather, or fabric
  • During 19th century, fashionable dresses often had no waist and nowhere to hang chatelaines
  • Chatelaines became decorative brooches
  • Often given as a wedding present from a husband to bride
  • Later became fashion accessories
19th Century Silver Chatelaine. Thimble holder, vinaigrette as a trumpet, watch case, scissors and a notebook. via auction.fr
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1820 ca. Blue Beaded Reticule, Or Handbag, In Jane Austen and Bridgerton Style. #bridgerton #janeausten #RegencyFashion #Reticule

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1820 ca. Blue Beaded Purse, French. Blue and cream beadwork, silver plated frame. via Ruby Lane Antiques rubylane.com

Definition Reticule: Bag or purse, often with a drawstring to pull closed and usually made of cloth or covered cardboard and often decorated with beading or embroidery. A reticule, or purse, or handbag, was usually carried by a woman during the Regency period to carry all their daily necessities. Earlier, women used pockets that tied at the waistline and were hidden in the folds of their skirts. Empire style, or early 1800s, high-waisted dresses made it impossible to either sewn in a pocket or to tie on a pocket. So women began carrying small, decorated bags called Reticules, or ridicules, which generally pulled close at the top with a drawstring. http://books2read.com/suziloveReticules

1820 ca. Blue Beaded Purse, French. Blue and cream beadwork, silver Plated Frame. via Ruby Lane - rubylane.com suzilove.com

In the early nineteenth century, reticules started to look like future handbags as they were often made from rigid card or molded mâché or card into a variety of shapes. Early bags were circular and with a drawstring but as women wanted their reticules to look individual they could be made with two halves and a hinged metal closure or with concertina sides. Materials varied from silk, cotton and string and shapes were round, hexagonal or lozenge shapes with shell shaped bags becoming very popular during the Regency and Romantic Eras.

1800s magazines were written for well-bred women who could read, so they gave plenty of ideas for how ladies could make and embellish reticules for their own use and as pretty gifts. Needlework was highly encouraged as a pastime for a lady so bags were frequently embroidered or decorated with beading. By the 1820s, reticules became more like our modern handbags using soft leather gathered at the top or hard leather with a rigid fastener and metal chain for carrying.

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1801 Dress With Train, English Style Coat, Polonaise Hat. #RegencyFashion #JaneAusten #FashionPlate

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1801 Dress With Train, French. English style coat and Polonaise hat to match dress. Fashion Plate via Journal des Dames et des Modes, or Costume Parisien.

1801 Dress With Train, French. English style coat and Polonaise hat to match dress. Fashion Plate via Journal des Dames et des Modes, or Costume Parisien.
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19th Century Women’s Cotton Caps with tails and frills as worn by women in Bridgerton and Jane Austen years. #Bridgerton #RegencyEra #Hats #JaneAusten

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19th Century Early Women’s Cotton Caps. Worn as morning caps, night caps, or under other hats. With lappets, hanging ties, or tails, which were also called ‘follow me lads’, or ‘flirtation ribbons’. via Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, U.S.A. mfa.org. via Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, U.S.A. mfa.org

Definition Caps: Worn as morning caps, night caps, or under other hats. Jane Austen and her family and female friends would have worn caps like these, sometimes during the morning at home, to bed to keep their long hair from becoming knotted, or under a bonnet to hold a hairstyle in place.
Caps sometimes had hanging ties, or tails, were also called ‘follow me lads’, or ‘flirtation ribbons’.

Definition Lappets: Two long strips of material, often lace, hanging from top of head down back or over  shoulders. Sometimes extensions of a headdress and a requirement for court dress.

19th Century Early Women's Cotton Caps. Worn as morning caps, night caps, or under other hats. Hanging ties, or tails, also called 'follow me lads', or 'flirtation ribbon's. via Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, U.S.A. mfa.org
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19th Century First Half Woman’s Cotton Mull Cap as worn by women in Bridgerton and Jane Austen years. #Bridgerton #RegencyEra #Hats #JaneAusten

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19th Century First Half Woman’s Embroidered Cap, French. In the 19th Century, women wore some sort of headwear during the day and the evening. Finely decorated cotton caps were worn during the morning with informal or At-Home, dress and at night with nightwear. These caps had fine embroidery, ruffles, lace edgings on the streamers, embroidered, pointed edges of the ruffles, ties, and streamers, known as ‘follow me lads’ or ‘flirtation ribbons’.

19th Century First Half Woman’s Embroidered Cap, French. Cotton mull with cotton embroidery, linen bobbin lace insertion, silk ribbon, round gathered crown with spoked wheel design in center surrounded by long leafed wreath, outside this a wreath of carnations, same carnations around forehead band and neck band, design embroidered with white linen thread, white taffeta ribbon run through the embroidered net casing and tied in center back. via Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, U.S.A. mfa.org


19th Century First Half Woman's Embroidered Cap, French. Cotton mull with cotton embroidery, linen bobbin lace insertion, silk ribbon, round gathered crown with spoked wheel design in center surrounded by long leafed wreath, outside this a wreath of carnations, same carnations around forehead band and neck band, design embroidered with white linen thread, white taffeta ribbon run through the embroidered net casing and tied in center back. via Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, U.S.A. mfa.org


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Chatelaines: Set of useful items hung from the waist in Jane Austen and Bridgerton years. #Bridgerton #JaneAusten #chatelaine #BritishHistory

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Chatelaines and Chains History Notes Book 9 By Suzi Love. What do you know about Chatelaines and Chains worn in Jane Austen’s and Bridgerton times? Women in charge of households carried important items with them. History Notes Book 9 Chatelaines and Chains. books2read.com/SuziLoveChatelaines

Personal Necessities, keys, or chatelaines was a set of useful items hung from waist by decorative chain. Chatelaines and Chains. History Notes Book 9 By Suzi Love. Women in charge of households dangled long chains from their waists to keep essentials within easy reach e.g. keys, notebook and pen, watch, sewing items, vinaigrette or perfume, or magnifying glass. Early chatelaine were simple essentials. Later chatelaine were decorative and expensive. http://books2read.com/SuziLoveChatelaines

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Definition Chatelaine: The word Chatelaine is French and means the keeper of the keys. Chatelaine” derives from the Latin word for castle. In Medieval times, the chatelaine was in charge of the day-to-day running of the castle. Women in charge of households dangled long chains from their waists to keep essentials within easy reach e.g. keys, notebook and pen, watch, sewing items, vinaigrette or perfume, or magnifying glass. Early chatelaine were simple essentials. Later chatelaine were decorative and expensive. books2read.com/SuziLoveChatelaines

What did a chatelaine do? Most important task was keeper of the keys. Also ordered supplies, did bookkeeping, supervised servants, taught castle children, and organized guests.

hat were chatelaines used for?

  • Castle keepers needed keys safe, yet easily accessible.
  • By 1700’s, a metal jeweled ornament hung from pockets, attached to belts, or by hooks into skirt waistbands
  • During 1800’s, women wore large collections of tools hung from chains
  • Young girls sewed and did needlework and needed to carry sewing notions eg scissors, thimbles
  • Worn by women of all classes, from workers to nobility
  • Varied depending on class and finances.
  • Made of silver, brass, steel, leather, or fabric
  • During 19th century, fashionable dresses often had no waist and nowhere to hang chatelaines
  • Chatelaines became decorative brooches
  • Often given as a wedding present from a husband to bride
  • Later became fashion accessories
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1815 Empire Style Blue Striped Dress, Norway. #RegencyFashion #HistoricalFashion #JaneAusten

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1815 Blue Striped Dress, Norway. Empire style, or high-waisted, dress with short puffed sleeves over long straight sleeves and gold trim. I can picture Jane Austen and her female friends and family wearing this sort of dress to an evening event. via Nordiska Museet, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. digitaltmuseum.se

1815 Blue Striped Dress, Norway. Front View. Empire style, or high-waisted, dress with short puffed sleeves over long straight sleeves and gold trim. via Nordiska Museet, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. digitaltmuseum.se
1815 Blue Striped Dress, Norway. Front View.
1815 Blue Striped Dress, Norway. Back View. Empire style, or high-waisted, dress with short puffed sleeves over long straight sleeves and gold trim. via Nordiska Museet, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. digitaltmuseum.se
1815 Blue Striped Dress, Norway. Back View.
1815 Blue Striped Dress, Norway. Side View. Empire style, or high-waisted, dress with short puffed sleeves over long straight sleeves and gold trim. via Nordiska Museet, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. digitaltmuseum.se
1815 Blue Striped Dress, Norway. Side View.
1815 Blue Striped Dress, Norway. Front Sleeve View. Empire style, or high-waisted, dress with short puffed sleeves over long straight sleeves and gold trim. via Nordiska Museet, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. digitaltmuseum.se
1815 Blue Striped Dress, Norway. Front Sleeve View.
1815 Blue Striped Dress, Norway. Sleeve View. Empire style, or high-waisted, dress with short puffed sleeves over long straight sleeves and gold trim. via Nordiska Museet, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. digitaltmuseum.se
1815 Blue Striped Dress, Norway. Sleeve View.
1815 Blue Striped Dress, Norway. Mother and Daughter View. Empire style, or high-waisted, dress with short puffed sleeves over long straight sleeves and gold trim. via Nordiska Museet, Nordic Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. digitaltmuseum.se
1815 Blue Striped Dress, Norway. Mother and Daughter View.
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1810-1850 ca. Bridgerton or Jane Austen Style Front Lacing Corset With Extra Wide Straps, American Or European. #Bridgertons #JaneAusten #RegencyFashion #Corset #RomanticEra

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1810–1850 ca. Corset, American or European. Front lacing, extra wide straps for under a
square neckline dress. via Metropolitan Museum, N.Y.C., U.S.A. metmuseum.org

1810–1850 ca. Corset, American or European. Front lacing, extra wide straps for under a square neckline dress. via Metropolitan Museum, N.Y.C., U.S.A. metmuseum.org

Surviving stays, or corsets as they became to be called in the nineteenth century, show that both longline and shorter corsets were worn and that they were made of cotton, silk and sateen. A lot of these corsets were front fastening, plus many were laced at both the front and the back so our aristocratic fictional heroines could indeed dress and undress themselves without the assistance of a maid.

Corsets 1810-1830 History Notes Book 17 This book shows how corsets changed to fit well under clothing,  give maximum support and comfort. Corsets pushed up breasts and showed off the bust line beneath a square-cut and low-cut neckline as in the early 1800s, or Regency years. Jane Austen and her female and friends wore these corsets. https://books2read.com/SuziLoveCorsetBook17

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1800 ca. Jane Austen Style Fawn Cotton Bodiced Petticoat With Front Lacing. #JaneAusten #RegencyFashion #FashionHistory #underclothing

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1800 ca. Fawn Cotton Bodiced Petticoat With Front Lacing, English. via National Trust Collections, UK. nationaltrustcollections.org.uk

Because dresses were so light and airy as to be almost see-through, petticoats were needed to protect a woman’s modesty. If a glimpse of an ankle was supposed to turn a man’s head, imagine what would happen if he saw an entire lady’s exposed leg.

Did Jane Austen wear this type of petticoat under her dress? Probably. This wide necked, small shoulder straps and Empire, or high-waisted, undergarment would have provided some warmth plus protect the modesty of Regency Era women. This would be worn under the high-waisted, wide necked, small bodiced type of thin, or even almost transparent, dresses of the early 1800s.

1800 ca. Fawn Cotton Bodiced Petticoat With Front Lacing, English. via National Trust Collections, UK. nationaltrustcollections.org.uk
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1817 March. Blue Opera Dress And Hat. #Regency #JaneAusten #Fashion

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1817 March. Opera Dress, English. The sort of outfit Jane Austen and her contemporaries or the Bridgerton women would wear for an evening at the opera or theatre. Fashion Plate via Rudolph Ackermann’s ‘The Repository of Arts’.

A blue crape dress over a white satin slip; the dress trimmed round the skirt with a deep blond lace, which is headed with a light and novel trimming, composed of white floss silk and small pearl beads: this trimming is surmounted with a beautiful deep embroidery of lilies, surrounded by leaves. The body and sleeves of this dress, as our readers will perceive by our print, are extremely novel. Head-dress, toque à la Berri; it is a crown of a novel form, tastefully ornamented round the top with lilies to correspond with the trimming of the skirt, and a plume of white feathers, which droop over the face. Ear-rings, necklace, and bracelets, sapphire mixed with pearl. The hair dressed in loose light ringlets on the forehead, and disposed in full curls in the back of the neck. White kid gloves, and white satin slippers.

1817 March. Opera Dress, English. Blue dress with flowers around the hem above a lace frill, long draping shawl, blue hat with white feather. Fashion Plate via Rudolph Ackermann's 'The Repository of Arts'.
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