1818 Brown Silk Dress, English. Regency Fashion. Empire style, high-waisted dress with long sleeves, and with dark brown velour trim on the square neckline and hem. via The Metropolitan Museum, New York City, USA. metmuseum.org
Definition Empire Style Dress: Named after the First Empire in France. Empire dresses had a low neckline and skirts started directly under the bust and flowed into the classical relaxed wide styles of Greece and Rome. This style of dress is associated with Jane Austen and her contemporaries as a high-waisted dress was worn most days. Cotton, silk or taffeta were the popular fabrics. Only the very wealthy could afford white dress in this style as the cottons were imported from India and had to be carefully cleaned, usually by a lady’s maid.
1818 Brown Silk Dress, English, As Worn By the Bridgertons. #Bridgerton #RegencyFashion #HistoricalFashion #metmuseum books2read.com/SuziLoveFashionWomen1815-1819 Share on X Fashion Women 1815-1819 History Notes Book 28
What did Jane Austen wear? This book looks at what was fashionable for women in the Georgian Era and at the end of the Regency Era in Britain and the reconstruction in Europe after the wars. Lifestyles were freer and fashions expressed this by becoming the focus of most women’s lives. A wardrobe full of opulent accessories was requisite. Includes mourning and riding fashion, dresses, hats, shoes, reticules or bags, underclothing, and fashion accessories.
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19th Century Second Half. Paper Mache Easter Egg, Russian.#Easter Resurrection of Christ, Cathedral of Christ the Savior. via Hermitage Museum, Russia. hermitagemuseum.org
Keep Calm and Read my Scandalous Siblings Series Books 1-3. The scientifically gifted Jamison siblings beg assistance from the St. Martin clan to battle a greedy railway investment syndicate. https://books2read.com/suziloveES
Embracing Scandal By Suzi Love Book 1 Scandalous Siblings. Lady Rebecca Jamison saves her family from financial ruin by investing in railways, but when a greedy syndicate murders her friend, Becca is forced to beg assistance from Cayle St. Martin, the new Duke of Sherwyn. https://books2read.com/suziloveES
Scenting Scandal Book 2 Scandalous Siblings Series. Lady Laura Jamison uses her extraordinary olfactory senses to sniff out her perfect match, but after she evades an assassin’s bullets, twice, she is forced to accept the protection of their family friend, and her nemesis, Richard St. Martin, the Earl of Winchester. https://books2read.com/suziloveSS
The Jamisons join the St. Martins at the duke’s country estate but a December snowstorm doubles guest numbers. #Holidays #FamilySaga #HistoricalRomance https://books2read.com/suziloveDS
1885 The Hen Egg, Imperial Faberge egg, Russia. Gold, rubies and enamel. Height: 6.4 cm. Made by The Fabergé firm, St Petersburg
An imperial Easter egg presented by Alexander III to his wife, Empress Maria Fiodorovna, for Easter 1885. The Hen, was made by Faberge at the behest of Emperor Alexander III for Empress Maria Fedorovna in 1885, possibly to mark the 20th anniversary of their betrothral. It imitates a natural egg and is golden, covered with a white opaque enamel. Inside there is a surprise in the form of a chicken figurine which held in its beak a ruby egg (presently lost). Via The Hermitage Museum, Russia.
1890-1900s Porcelain Easter Egg. Inscription “Christ is risen!”. The Kornilov Brothers Factory, St Petersburg. Via Hermitage Museum Faberge Easter Egg, Russia. books2read.com/suziloveEaster
A porcelain Easter egg from the 1890–1900s featuring the inscription “Christ is risen!” was a traditional Russian Orthodox Easter gift. They were produced by both the Kornilov Brothers Factory and the Imperial Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg. The State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg has a large collection of Imperial-era porcelain Easter eggs. These eggs were exchanged, hung on ribbons, or placed on stands during Easter as a symbol of life’s renewal. The words “Christ is Risen!” was a traditional Russian Easter greeting.
1930-1939 ca. Louis Vuitton Wardrobe Trunk. Monogrammed coat hangers, leather handle.1930-19391930-1939 ca. Louis Vuitton Steamer Trunk.18th Century Late – 19th Century Early. Hide covered, two tier traveling chest or box. Via Bonham’s Auctions.17th Century Iron Trunk With Locking Mechanism. 1900s Early Bags and Suitcases.
1st Dibs Auctions. 1859 ca. Packing Case or Trunk By Louis Vuitton, French. Iron trim, wooden slats, brass studs and locks.17th – 20th Centuries Luggage For Travel. #RegencyEra #VictorianEra #EdwardianEra books2read.com/SuziLoveTravel Share on XHN_10_D2D_RetailerBuyLink_ History Notes Book 10 books2read.com/SuziLoveTravel
1814 Gentleman’s Ensemble, French. Gentleman in brown tailcoat, white vest, high collared white shirt, knotted white cravat, white pants and white gaiters above black shoes. The style of outfit worn by the men in Jane Austen’s life. Fashion Plate via Journal des Dames et des Modes, or Costume Parisien.
1811 August Walking Dress for a Mother and a child, English. Mother wears a typical Regency or Jane Austen style high round robe with full long sleeve trimmed with Van Dyke lace at the throat and cuffs and ornamented around the bottom with a Tuscan border in needlework. Short capuchin cloak of buff shot sarsenet fastened with broaches on shoulders and trimmed with deep Chinese silk fringe. Moorish turban bonnet gathered into a broach in centre of the forehead. Purple ridicule, or bag, with gold snap and tassels. Buff kid half boots, parasol with deep Indian awning. Child wears a short sleeved Spanish vest and trousers in one, which looks like a skeleton suit, a tight coat or jacket buttoned to a pair of high-waisted trousers. An Indian dimity waistcoat with long sleeves and collar trimmed with a narrow border of muslin, high shoes of purple morocco and a college cap of purple velvet with a crimson band and carries a parasol. via Rudolph Ackermann’s ‘The Repository of Arts’.
Definition Skeleton Suit: Shirt and trousers made as one connecting piece, often buttoned together, and were one of the earliest fashions designs made especially for children and were worn from the 1790s to the 1820s.
What did the Bridgerton ladies and Jane Austen use to carry her personal items? Ridicule, Reticule, Or Handbag? Call them what you like: purses, bags, handbags, reticules, ridicules, clutches, or pocket replacements. They all did the same job and they changed greatly with the prevailing fashions of time. books2read.com/suziloveReticules
Definition Of A 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. These Reticules, or bags, were the forerunners of our modern day purses.
The term ‘ridicule’ derived from the Latin ‘ridiculum’ and first used in France during the 17th century and meant subjecting something or someone to mockery. As women’s tiny bags were mocked, or ridiculed, for being a useless fashion accessory carried outside when they were first used in the late 1700s, it’s likely this is how the name ‘ridicule’ started. The later term ‘reticule’ derived from the Latin reticulum, meaning ‘netted bag’ and was applied when bags became larger and often made from netting. In the late 1700s and early 1800s, they were also known as indispensables as they carried all the personal items a lady needed upon her person every day. They were easily made by ladies, easy to carry and became an indispensable fashion accessory.
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.
