Empire fashion

Today our Regency time travels for fashion will take us to the year 1824 and oh what an assortment of fashions we have for this year. The trends continue with the lowering and snugger form-fitting bodice and fuller skirt bottoms as we have seen for the past few years. Then is October we see see two mourning fashions; however this time it is not due to a death in the British Royal Family but for the French King Louise XVIII. I found it interesting that the British Court was ordered to go into…

Ackermann's Repository was a popular British publication of the Regency period and its monthly issues were in distribution from January 1809 till its final issue on December 1828. Fortunately for us, Ackermann's Repository was published by a printing house that specialized in producing bound volumes intended for reference and private libraries. Had this just been a fashion magazine, I believe many of the amazing plates would have vanished over time; however since this publication was a…

Fashion Plate, 'Evening Dress' for 'Lady's Monthly Museum', Unknown, England, London, November 1812, Prints, Hand-colored engraving on paper.

Fashion Plate, 'Half Dress' for 'The Repository of Arts', Rudolph Ackermann (England, London, 1764-1834), England, London, November 1, 1810, Prints, Hand-colored engraving on paper.

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Fashion Plate, ‘Dinner Dress’ for ‘The Repository of Arts’, Rudolph Ackermann (England, London, 1764-1834), England, London, April 1, 1825, Prints, Hand-colored engraving on paper.

Last week I showed you a ca. 1910 evening dress in pale gold and ocean blue, with a fringed floral lei around the bodice. Your reactions were all over the place: love, hate, meh, so un-moved you couldn’t think of anything to say, likes with caveats – everything! And you liked and disliked totally different bits from person to person! A very interesting reaction – I’d love to have been in the room when it was first worn, to see what everyone thought of it then! As it was, more liked than…

Fashion Plate, 'Evening Dress' for 'The Repository of Arts', Rudolph Ackermann (England, London, 1764-1834), England, London, June 1, 1816, Prints, Hand-colored engraving on paper.

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