Lady Selina Meade Painted by Lawrence |
Continuing thoughts on designing and sewing waistlines
Dramatic changes in society
Dramatic changes in society
An artful focus on music, poetry, and classic Greek lines
High-waisted frocks...
What time travel method would carry us back to the days of Jane Austen, The Peninsular War, Beau Brummell, and his well-fleshed friend The Prince Regent ? A little fiddling with something neoclassical maybe... A bust of Socrates? An enameled snuffbox, perhaps? Or better yet, a high perch phaeton, driven by a dashing female!
The Perfect Time Travel Method back to the English Regency |
No more immensely stiff, mid-waisted, Georgian skirts in weighty brocades. The Empress Josephine's doing it across the channel in France, so why not here? It's floaty, airy high waisted gowns these days.
So drape your lightest muslins up just under the bust line and come along with me.
Creating a fairy-like, neoclassic inspired frock for a time travel trip like this is the sort of thing that keeps me....
Enchanted by Sewing
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Regency Resources
Georgette Heyer was the spark that lit the craze for Regency Romance fiction and did that lady ever know her era! She had collections of the ladies journals that her heroines read, and her stories include every elaborate detail of the toilettes of the day. To step into a Georgette Heyer novel is to step into romantic adventure, complete to a shade (as one of her books denizens would have proclaimed) with the beautiful fashions of the day.
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