1800-1820 ca. Man’s Everyday Oatmeal Colored Wool Suit With Breeches. Can you picture Jane Austen’s male relatives and friends wearing this? Oatmeal colored double breasted cutaway style coat with velvet collar, steel buttons, rear flap pockets, back vent flanked by stitched down pleats having top and bottom button detail, glazed linen lining. Fall front tan breeches having three button front, small side buttons, back lacing waistband with pocket, four buttons above buttoned cuff, front lined in green linen. via Whitaker Auction whitakerauction.smugmug.com
1811 White Dress, French. Worn under a white spotted tunic with yellow over skirt. White gloves, shoes and hat with drooping white feathers. Fashion Plate via Journal des Dames et des Modes, or Costume Parisien.
Although this is a French fashion plate, Jane Austen and her contemporaries wore a variety of tunics, spencers, and long coats to keep warm when out and about, visiting, shopping etc. Their thin muslin dresses weren’t any protection against harsh European winters or wet English weather.
1826 Sights Jane Austen Saw Around Regency England. 1826 From Regency Life Around England. The sights that Jane Austen and her friends and family would have seen around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
1826 Royal Wells At Cheltenham, England. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
1826 Arrival of the London Mail in Bristol. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
1826 Procession from Gloucester to Berkeley. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
The Promenade At Cowes, England. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
1826 The Post Office, Bristol. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
1826 Point Street, Portsmouth, England. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
1826 Gate House, Highgate, England. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
1826 Oakland cottages were a well-known place to stay at Cheltenham Spa, England. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
1826 Entrance to Berkeley Castle, England. Regency life around England. via 1826 The English Spy By Robert Cruikshank via Google Books (PD-150)
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1750-1760 ca. Brown Silk Brocade Stays With Both Front and Back Lacings.
These silk stays have a small repeat floral brocade in rose, white, and green. There are cream, leather-backed waist tabs, stitched eyelets, and pink and tan linings. These stays, or corset, are unusual because they have both front and back lacings. This means that a lady could step in and out of her stays and then tighten the front lacing herself, thereby eliminating the need for assistance from a maid or dresser.
Women of the middle and lower classes needed to be able to dress themselves as they have no one to assist in tightening their lacings when they dressed. Most upper class ladies would be able to call upon a maid to help and would therefore generally use back lacing stays.
1750-1760 ca. Brown Silk Brocade Stays With Front and Back Lacings. Front Lacing View. via Augusta Auctions. augusta-auction.com1750-1760 ca. Brown Brocade Stays With Front and Back Lacings. Back Lacing View. via Augusta Auctions. augusta-auction.com1750-1760 ca. Brown Silk Brocade Stays With Front and Back Lacings. Side View. via Augusta Auctions. augusta-auction.com1750-1760 ca. Brown Silk Brocade Stays With Front and Back Lacings. Eyelet View. via Augusta Auctions. augusta-auction.com1750-1760 ca. Brown Silk Brocade Stays With Front and Back Lacings. Fabric View. via Augusta Auctions. augusta-auction.com1750-1760 ca. Brown Silk Brocade Stays With Both Front and Back Lacings #Georgian #History #Corset https://books2read.com/SuziLoveCorsetBook15 Click To Tweet Corsets 1700-1790 History Notes Book 15 By Suzi Love ~ Award Winning Writer and Researcher. https://books2read.com/SuziLoveCorsetBook15
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1812 Red Dress, French. High-waisted red Merino wool dress with short puffed sleeves, high Chako hat with a plume long white gloves and white shoes. Jane Austen and her family and friends would have worn this style of dress. Fashion Plate via Journal des Dames et des Modes, or Costume Parisien.
1811 January Evening Dresses, English. Standing Figure: French frock with half train of black imperial gauze worn over a slip of white sarsnet or satin, ornamented with a Vandyke border of white velvet or thread lace. White velvet hat ornamented with two curled ostrich feathers, with a silver or beaded band. White kid gloves and shoes. Sitting Figure: Grecian robe of silver grey crape worn over a white satin under-dress, ornamented at the hem and each side with a light and tasteful border of black bugles. Stomacher edged with black beads, corresponding with those which finish the bosom and sleeves. Earrings, necklace, and bracelets of jet. Hair in waved curls on each side of the face, divided in front of the forehead with a full plait and barrel comb of jet. White satin slippers with black jet clasps or bugle rosettes. White kid gloves and a fan of silver-frosted crape. Back-ground figure: Dress of black Venetian velvet with short Circassian sleeve, gathered in a knot of white beads or pearl, bosom and stomacher to correspond, pearl necklace, ear-rings, and bracelets. Belt of white velvet with mother-of-pearl clasps. Convent veil of white cobweb net confined with a pearl crescent, à la Diana. Sandal slippers and gloves of white kid and fan of carved ivory. Fashion Plate via Rudolph Ackermann’s ‘The Repository’ of Arts.
Definition Evening Dress: Minute distinctions between ball, dinner, evening and opera gowns meant different quality of fabrics and designs. A Ball Gown differed from an evening dress as expensive silk fabrics were usually worn, light or heavy, decorated with lace, embroidery or beading, with low-cut bodice, short or no sleeves, and full skirts. In the early 1800s, white cotton dresses were considered suitable for many evening events, but not for balls. And definitely not for an evening event in a palace. White dresses with white embroidery for evening were considered fashionable and exclusive as only the wealthy could afford them.
1811 January Evening Dresses, English. Standing Figure: French frock with half train of black imperial gauze worn over a slip of white sarsnet or satin, ornamented with a Vandyke border of white velvet or thread lace. Sitting Figure: Grecian robe of silver grey crape worn over a white satin under-dress, ornamented at the hem and each side with a light and tasteful border of black bugles. Stomacher edged with black beads, corresponding with those which finish the bosom and sleeves. Fashion Plate via Rudolph Ackermann’s ‘The Repository’ of Arts.1811 January Three Women In Jane Austen Style Evening Dresses With Fashion Accessories. #RegencyEra #BritishHistory #JaneAusten. books2read.com/SuziLoveFashion1810-1814 Click To Tweet27_D2D_FashWomen1810-1814
1868-1874 Blue Silk Corset. Collage View. via FIDM Museum, Los Angeles. #Corset #VictorianEra #VictorianFashion
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