A Trip Through English History

Dress

1820s

Leeds Museums and Galleries

Dress

c. 1818-1822

English

Kent State University Museum

Dress

1818

Musée Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire

Dress

1805

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

While dresses of this era tend to be monochromatic solid white, this dress shows how colorful embroidery could be used to create lively decoration.

I feel like we need to stop Twitter callouts and go back to publishing them in the newspaper like gentlemen.

(source: The Frederick Hornet, September 27, 1803.)

Redingote c. 1815-1825 in piqué de coton (Paris Musées).

Description and machine translation:

Long, double-breasted frock coat in white cotton piqué, straight turn-down collar, 2 buttoned cuffed pockets behind and one left inside pocket, closed with 12 buttons, 2 small buttons on the sleeves.

The Dictionary of Fashion History by Valerie Cumming describes piqué as a textile from the 19th century and later, "Usually a cotton fabric, woven with a raised rib, often in a diamond pattern, also in straight horizontal or vertical ribs."

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Another selection of some of the better names I've come across in Regency era newspapers recently.

Court dress of Empress Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg), 1820s. State Hermitage Museum.

ab. 1823-1825 Cotton day dress

(National Museums Liverpool)

Ball gown of embroidered net

c. 1820

Great Britain

Victoria and Albert Museum

I can go about a week and a half without texting one of my coworkers some bullshit. Since this is no longer an option, Imma need some godawful memes from y'all.

That's the stuff.

The Picture Gallery; or, Peter Prim’s Portraits of Good and Bad Girls and Boys, London, 1814

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• Gown Worn by Princess Charlotte of Wales (1796-1817).

Date : 1816-1817

Medium: Roller-printed silk satin, cotton & metal.

The nineteenth century, this sword was made from a light cavalry saber blade model 1816. The guard represents a skeleton, whose skull serves as a pommel and the body grows on the guard, fighting against a snake. 

From the Musée de l'Armée

A few (more) of the better names I've come across in Regency era newspapers recently.