1800 Empire style, high-waisted, white muslin dress with long skirt and train as worn by Jane Austen. #RegencyEra #JaneAusten #Fashion
1800 White Muslin Dress, European. Empire style, high-waisted dress of light weight cotton, with softly falling gathered long skirt and with a train. via Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, USA. collections.lacma.org The type of dress worn across Europe in the early 1800s. This sort of high-waisted dress would have been worn by Jane Austen and her contemporaries in England. The Empire waist gown defined women’s fashion during the … Continue reading →