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Regency Fashion: Walking, Full and Costume Dresses

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Appearing in the January 1807 issue of La Belle Assemblee, I love the drama of these creations (and I am not just talking about the Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Hermit Position

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English Eccentrics and Eccentricities, 1875 Likely this young man was interested in being a garden or ornamental hermit.  These hermits lived in hermitages, follies, grottoes Continue →

Regency Advertisements: Attention Drawing Masters, Governesses, and Preceptors of Youth in General

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Appeared in the November 1817 issue of Ackermann’s Repository.  I love also the ad for the Lady and Gentleman’s Polite Assistant!