19th Century Early Caroline Bonaparte Murat, Wife and Queen Consort of Joachim, King of Naples.
19th Century Early Caroline Bonaparte Murat, Wife and Queen Consort of Joachim, King of Naples. #Regency #Royalty #Europe
Category Archives: 1800s women’s fashion
1805-1810 ca. 1805-1810 ca. What shoes did Jane Austen and her contemporaries wear? Red Shoes With Laces. #JaneAusten #RegencyEra #Shoes #Fashion
1805-1810 ca. Red Shoes With Laces. via Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. mfa.org In Jane Austen’s years, she and her contemporaries spent a lot of time walking outdoors. People were encouraged to partake in outdoor pursuits to maintain good health. Fragile slippers were worn for balls and evening events but for walking sturdier shoes were needed, In the early 1800s, these were typically made of leather, had a very small heel, slightly rounded toes and were laced up on the top.
1808 Two Dress Bodices With Short Puffed Sleeves and Matching Turbans. #Regency #JaneAusten #Hats #Fashion
1808 Two Bodices, French. Green and white striped dress has short puffed sleeves and matching green turban. White dress with pink overdress has short sleeves and a pink headdress to match. Fashion Plate via Journal des Dames et des Modes, or Costume Parisien.
French fashions like this were copied by English magazines so these styles of hats would have been worn by Jane Austen and her contemporaries.
1807 Two Ladies and a Gentleman In Outdoor Walking Outfits. #Regency #Fashion #JaneAusten
1807 Two Ladies and a Gentleman, English. Lady in lavender walking dress, or Pelisse, with fur trim, holding a blue reticule or bag, fitted lavender bonnet with tassel and yellow gloves. Lady in white evening dress with salmon tunic caught up at one side and evening turban. Man in long blue overcoat, or Redingote, with contrasting collar, high white cravat, yellow gloves, tall Hessian boots with tassels, and wearing a top hat. via Le Beau Monde, or Literary and Fashionable Magazine, London, U.K.
These are the types of outfits worn by Jane Austen and contemporaries in England and shown in their English magazines.The same designs had probably already been seen in France, because English publishers obsessively copied French fashions despite the two countries being at war for many years.
1809 January Walking Dress, Mantle and Polish Bonnet, English. #Regency #Fashion #JaneAusten
1809 January Walking Dress, English. Polish bonnet, mantle of gold velvet with an invisible hood trimmed with ermine, antique collar fastened with a gold ornament in form of a shell. Morning dress, white muslin Brussels spot, with worked stomacher, trimmed down the front and at the bottom, worked along hanging sleeves, twisted and fastened at the wristband with small gold ornament to match mantle and cincture of the dress, gold sandals laced with brown cords and tassels and York tan gloves. Plate via Rudolph Ackermann’s ‘The Repository’ of Arts.
1818 Woman’s Deep Green Redingote, Or Coat, Of Merino Wool With Black Velvet Decoration, French. #Regency #FashionPlate #France
1818 Deep Green Redingote, French. Merino wool coat or walking dress. High white neck frill, black velvet dress decoration and velvet bonnet shaped like a shell, green shoes and white gloves. Fashion Plate via Journal des Dames et des Modes, or Costume Parisien. 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.
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 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.
1801 Dress With Train, English Style Coat, Polonaise Hat. #Regency #JaneAusten #Fashion
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, English Style Coat, Polonaise Hat. #Regency #JaneAusten #Fashion
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1818 Typical Women’s Fashions During The Late Regency Era. #Regency #Fashion BritishHistory
1818 Gorgeous women’s fashion In the late Regency Era. Dresses, coats or Redingotes, Spencers, shawls, fichu or shoulder cape, shoes, hats and headdresses, gloves, and Reticules or bags as displayed in various fashion magazines.
Fashion Accessory: Completes and complements outfit. Two groups- 1. Those worn e.g. bonnets, caps and hats, boots and shoes, cravats and ties, gloves, mittens and muffs, jewelry, scarves and shawls, socks and stockings 2. Those carried e.g. bags, fans, and parasols.
If you are a reader or writer of early 1800s, or Regency Era fashions such as mourning and riding fashion, dresses, hats, shoes, reticules or bags, underclothing and fashion accessories, try History Notes Book 28 Women’s Fashions 1815-1819
1817 May Pink Evening Dress and Dancing Slippers, English. #Regency #JaneAusten #Fashion
1817 May Pink Evening Dress, English. Bottom is prettily decorated and the hem is caught up with roses to match the head dress. Grand Parure of jewelry includes a tiara. Long gloves and dancing slippers. Fashion Plate via Rudolph Ackermann’s ‘The Repository of Arts’.
1817 May Pink Evening Dress and Dancing Slippers, English. #Regency #JaneAusten #Fashion
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1880’s Gorgeous corset of silk satin, steel busk, and bone, French. #VictorianEra #Corset #VictorianFashion
1880’s Corset, French, silk satin, steel busk, and bone. Women used corsets to get closer to an ‘ideal physical form’. Until the beginning of the 20th century, women’s waists were tightened by corsets. via Kyoto Institute, Japan.
Corsets 1880-1900 History Notes Book 20 This book shows how a fashionable silhouette became of paramount importance and how a well-fitted corset became a fashion essential. As well as a decorative fashion item, tight lacing gave a narrow waist and the desired feminine form under clothing.
