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Showing posts with label Regency fashion blogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Regency fashion blogs. Show all posts

Sunday, January 22

Sunday Sample: Looking Good in the Regency Dress c.1795 to 1820

Sleeve Mock Up
Historical Sewing offers tips on how to look great in a Regency dress in a book that is available at a special price of $9.97. The book covers such topics as how someone with large arms can look good in a Regency dress and how to disguise a wide rib cage.

Click here to find out more to increase your sewing skills and make your costumes look like the clothing your ancestors wore! 

Friday, March 18

Friday Find: Fashion Blogs

Experiments in Elegance is a blog focused almost entirely on Regency Fashion. It is well worth a visit.Although the blog is only two years old, Antonia posts frequently and her images are outstanding - as is the dress she has made, based on Princess Charlotte's Russian Jumper dress.
Antonia in her jumper dress.
The Regency Project follows a sewing project in which Anea of The Anea Project makes a Regency gown in the transitional style from round gown to narrow empire.

Anea in a dress based on Regency models
19th Century Fashion provides a timeline with thumbnails of fashions for that year. This website provides an organized, easy to use overview of 19th century fashion.
Fashion timeline with "live" thumbnails