Tag Archives: Clothes

Leap Repeat

Updated on November 17, 2022 by carolyn

I am in the middle of edits on deadline so tight my ears are popping. Thus, even though technically I’m getting an extra day, I am in a bit of a panic. You should check out this post from the past:

Alas, I can only provide you with a link since I don’t have time to actually steal the content.

As was the custom of late Victorian and Edwardian genre painters, Talbot Hughes had amassed an extensive collection of historical costumes and accessories as studio props dating from the 16th century through the 1870s. The collection was donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum after it had been exhibited at Harrods department store in 1913. Samples of Hughes’s costume collection remain on public view at the V&A to this day in the British Galleries
– Wikipedia

Basically, in 1913, a bunch of folks put on these gowns and they took pictures of them. Scroll down a bit to reach the Regency gowns.

Go here to see the photos.

And, just because I’m nice, here’s the Wikipedia entry for the Victoria and Albert museum, which is a pretty huge time suck. You’re welcome. You should be glad I’m not linking to the V&A because then you’d NEVER get free. Oh wait, I’m not that nice. Victoria&Albert Museum.

Posted in Former Riskies, Regency, Research | Tagged Clothes | 2 Replies

Miscellany Tuesday

Updated on January 17, 2013 by Amanda McCabe/Laurel McKee

How is everyone this cold January week?? Around here things are going better–the illness seems to be fading (finally!) and the new book is moving (slowly) along. Here is a little about what else is going on:

–Today is my birthday!!! I will spend it much as someone might have in the Regency, quietly with a nice family dinner and (hopefully!) some new books as presents. With Christmas/wedding/sicknesses just past, being nice and cozy with a bottle of wine and some cake sounds just right….

–Oklahoma finally has a JASNA chapter of our very own! For years, in order to go to a chapter meeting I had to drive to Dallas, but now I just have to drive across town. This month my mom and I did a program to celebrate Jane’s birthday by talking about Regency fashions (you can see pics at the website, http://jasnaokla.weebly.com/). In June there is going to be a Netherfield Ball in Dallas, so I am also joining a country dancing group to get ready! New dress time!

–Speaking of new dresses, did everyone watch the Golden Globes?? Thanks to Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, the show was actually funny and entertaining and I watched (almost) the whole thing. Can I say how much I loved all the coral colored gowns and the sparkle?? I want one now. Here are a couple of my favorites, Zooey Deschanel and Lucy Liu (a sort of modern day Marie Antoinette, with a side braid)

–And this is also the 454th anniversary of Elizabeth I’s coronation! I may do a whole post about it next week, because I’ve been researching it for my second Kate Haywood Elizabethan Mystery, Murder at Westminster Abbey. I was watching Anne of the Thousand Days again just last weekend, and I always cry at that scene at the end when Henry comes to see Anne and she defiantly cries “My Elizabeth shall be queen! And my blood will have been well spent”

What have you been doing this week?? Who were your favorites at the Golden Globes? Any favorite Tudor movies??

Posted in Frivolity | Tagged Clothes, Golden Globes, Jane Austen Society of North America, JASNA | 6 Replies

Amazing Photos of Regency Gowns

Updated on March 2, 2011 by carolyn

Alas, I can only provide you with a link since I don’t have time to actually steal the content.

As was the custom of late Victorian and Edwardian genre painters, Talbot Hughes had amassed an extensive collection of historical costumes and accessories as studio props dating from the 16th century through the 1870s. The collection was donated to the Victoria and Albert Museum after it had been exhibited at Harrods department store in 1913. Samples of Hughes’s costume collection remain on public view at the V&A to this day in the British Galleries
– Wikipedia

Basically, in 1913, a bunch of folks put on these gowns and they took pictures of them. Scroll down a bit to reach the Regency gowns.

Go here to see the photos.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Clothes, Victoria and Albertt Museum | 11 Replies

A Few of My Favorite Regency Things

Updated on September 8, 2010 by carolyn

This place has lovely things to look at.

I would rock these shoes. They’re 1790’s but come on! They’re so pretty.

Regency Hat, original condition

I’m not so sure about the hat. I mean, maybe. But it wouldn’t go with the shoes. I think our own Risky Megan would look fantastic in this hat. I wish I had the skilz to show you how right I am. Someone with skilz needs to photoshop Megan’s face there. Because I’m right.

This silk gown is soooo pretty. Until you get to the red flowers. I’m not feeling that as a fashion choice, but maybe they were perkier a couple hundred years ago. And yet, it’s like they have some kind of power over me, because I would not mind wearing this dress at all.

I would attend a fancy tea in this dress and catch the eye of a certain Lord HeroMaterial. My slippers would probably be some shade of gold.

Or this one:

Look, it even has a little swooshy train and the embroidery, gosh. It that not divine? I would have to wear some underwear, but a yellow underskirt thingee would look pretty darn nice.

I would wear this gown to an exhibition, where Lord HeroMaterial would approach me with my cousin Eustace. We would be introduced.

There’s a lovely red dress for sale at this site. Red Silk Faile 1800-1810. The detailed photos will have you swooning. And more.

I would wear that red dress to go driving with Lord HeroMaterial. He would lose his head, just a little, on account of how adorable I looked, and I would have to give him a very stern look.

Where would you wear these clothes? And what might happen to you?

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Clothes, Lord HeroMaterial, shoes, Virtual Shopping | 10 Replies