Regency Fashion: Walking and Riding Dress

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I am in love with these plates from Ackermann’s Repository July 1818 issue. I have included snips from the descriptions of gowns combined with some Continue →

Regency Advertisements: London Straw Hat Manufactory and White Whalebone Hats

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These ads appeared in the May 1816 issue of Ackermann’s Repository.   Here is more about Charles Vyse, the hat manufacturer including some scandalous family Continue →

Olivia Waite: The Lady’s Guide to Celestial Mechanics

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As Lucy Muchelney watches her ex-lover’s sham of a wedding, she wishes herself anywhere else. It isn’t until she finds a letter from the Countess Continue →