Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Fashions for October 1819

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Loretta reports:

Toward the end of the official Regency decade, waistlines climb quite high, while the bottom of the skirt carries increasing amounts of decoration, making a sort of upside-down cone effect. I especially enjoyed the note about the bias cut being employed to "display the bust very advantageously."

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Today's fashion plates and descriptions are brought to you by Ackermann's Repository, October 1819.
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