Costume Parisien, 1812, From the Bibliothèque des Arts Décoratifs via SceneInThePast flickr. plate 1247 "Coeffure à la Chinoise. Robe de Gaze Brochée"
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Hey all. I'm back with more Regency Fashions from Ackermann's Repository! I know these ladies look so prim and proper in their lovely Rege...
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Ball dress made of patterned silk gauze showing pink dots with flower cups sleeves.
Sleeve detail, ball gown made in Gt Britain, 1815 
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Journal des dames et des modes -- 1814-11-25 -- fascicules
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Realizing today how much my list of un-blogged costumes is piling up, I figured I should at least try to get through New Orleans before I f...
Fashion Plate, 'Ball Dress' for 'La Belle Assemblée', John Bell (England, 1745 - 1831), England, London, February 1, 1819, Prints, Hand-colored engraving on paper.
Fashion Plate, 'Ball Dress' for 'La Belle Assemblée', John Bell (England, 1745 - 1831), England, London, February 1, 1819, Prints, Hand-colored engraving on paper.
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Fashion plate for 1810 showing a red pelisse.
As you may have realized by now, I really enjoy adapting clothing from fashion plates. Sometimes I follow them very strictly, sometimes I use them as more of a jumping-off point for my ideas. One of my favorite online resources for Regency costuming is the magazine Ackermann's Repository, which is available in its entirety on…
It's time for a little more information about witzchouras! Back in January, I shared my round-about journey to figure out what a witzchoura is. Now it's time to look at witzchouras in more detail to determine what qualities define them. In that last post, we left off with this enlightening sentence from the book Empire Fashions by Dover Publishers:…
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