1812 March 1st Boxing Match between Ward and Quirk By Thomas Rowlandson. #RegencyEra #Boxing #BritishHistory
1812 March 1st Boxing Match between Ward and Quirk for 100 Guineas a side. By Thomas Rowlandson, British. via The Metropolitan Museum, New York City, U.S.A. metmuseum.org
1700s Late Gorgeous Gentlemen’s Coats As Worn by Jane Austen’s male family and friends. #JaneAusten #GeorgianFashion #HistoricalFashion #Coat
1700s Late Gentlemen’s Coats.
A fitted coat was an essential part of a gentleman’s wardrobe in the late 1800s and were generally tailored and cut to fit tightly. Therefore, gentlemen needed a valet, or some other helper, to extricate himself and his shoulders from his glove-like coat. Breeches and a waistcoat in the same fabric usually completed the 18th century’s gentleman ensemble. Coats were generally worn long at the back and had elaborate decoration down the front openings, collars, and sleeve cuffs.
19th Century Bridgerton Or Jane Austen Style Embroidered Silk Reticule, Or Bag, Japan. #Bridgerton #JaneAusten #RegencyFashion #Reticule
19th Century Embroidered Silk Bag, Japan. Metal clasp and chain, embroidered with a beautiful bird and flowers. via Ruby Lane Antiques. rubylane.com
Definition Reticule: Bag or purse, often with a drawstring to pull closed and usually made of cloth or covered cardboard and often decorated with beading or embroidery. A reticule, or purse, or handbag, was usually carried by a woman during the Regency period to carry all their daily necessities. Earlier, women used pockets that tied at the waistline and were hidden in the folds of their skirts. Empire style, or early 1800s, high-waisted dresses made it impossible to either sewn in a pocket or to tie on a pocket. So women began carrying small, decorated bags called Reticules, or ridicules, which generally pulled close at the top with a drawstring.
1816 August Walking Costume, or Pelisse, or Coat, English. Round dress, composed of cambric and trimmed with lace. The body is let in with a profusion of lace. Plain long sleeves, very full, except at the wrist where the fulness is confined by small plaits, sleeve finished by double frill of lace. Over the dress is a Pelisse of blue and white shot sarcenet, lined with white sarcenet and trimmed with white satin. Pelisse sleeve is very full and finished at the wrist by a cuff and bows of ribbon. Pelisse is made half high and finished at neck with a triple fall of rich lace but the neck is bare. White satin hat is turned up in front and ornamented with flowers. White kid gloves, blue kid shoes and a parasol. We are indebted for this tasteful dress to Mrs. Gill of Cork Street, Burlington Garden, London. Fashion Plate via Rudolph Ackermann’s ‘The Repository of Arts’.
Definition Redingote Or Pelisse Or Walking Dress Or Coat: French word developed from English words, riding coat. Long fitted outdoor coat worn over other garments for warmth. Originally made with several capes and trimmed with large buttons. For women, the coat was often cut away in the front or left open to show off the dress underneath. French fashion plates call these coats Redingotes and they were worn by men, women, and children. English fashion plates call the coats a Pelisse, a walking dress, Promenade dress, or Carriage dress.
1816 August Jane Austen Or Bridgerton Style Walking Costume With Blue Pelisse and Turned-Up White Satin Hat. #Bridgerton #RegencyFashion #JaneAusten #HistoricFashion https://books2read.com/SuziLoveFashionWomen1815-1819
1830-1839 ca. Black Silk Evening Slippers Made By East Of London. #RomanticEra #Shoes #BritishHistory
1830-1839 ca. Black Evening Slippers, British. Black silk, rosette on front, straps. Made By East, Boot & Shoe Maker, Britain. via Metropolitan Museum, NYC, U.S.A.
1830s Shoes: Producing different shoes for right and left feet started around 1830 in France. In these first attempts, little paper labels on the insoles of the shoes indicated left and right. However, the shoes were still made on straight lasts with no differentiation between the left and right foot. By the end of the 19th century, producing left and right shoes had become common as shoemakers then worked with combinations of sole and vamp cuts tailored to fit either the right or the left foot. The first steps towards the mechanisation of shoemaking were taken during the Napoleonic Wars. In 1810, engineer Marc Brunel developed a machinery that could mass-produce nailed boots for the soldiers of the British Army. But after the end of the war in 1815, manual labour became cheap, and the demand for military shoes declined. The industrialization of shoemaking began around 1830.
1816 May Jane Austen and Bridgerton Style Full Evening Dress Of White Lace Dress Over a Satin Slip. #Bridgerton #RegencyEra #JaneAusten #HistoricFashion
1816 May Full Evening Dress, English. The type of evening dress the Bridgerton family and Jane Austen and her contemporaries would have worn to a formal evening event, such as a ball. A white satin slip, over which is a white lace dress, ornamented with three quillings of white lace on the skirt, intermixed with bows of white satin ribbon. The body and sleeve, both of which are richly ornamented with colored stones, are formed, as our readers will see by the print, in a very novel style. Head-dress, a cap composed of white satin, finished with a band edged with pearls, and a superb plume of white feathers. Necklace, ear-rings, and bracelets,’ colored stones intermixed with pearls. White satin slippers, and white kid gloves. We are indebted to the elegant invention Of Mrs. Gill, of Cork-street, Burlington-Gardens, for our dress this month. Fashion Plate via Rudolph Ackermann’s ‘The Repository of Arts’.
Definition Full Dress: Most formal of outfits, day or night, with all possible accessories added.
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Lady Laura Jamison believes her extraordinary olfactory senses will sniff out her perfect match, but will Richard St. Martin, the Earl of Winchester, prove her theory wrong? Scenting Scandal By Suzi Love Book 2 Scandalous Siblings Series. books2read.com/suziloveSS
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Laura concentrated on restful images. Brooks babbled, birds sang, white fluffy clouds floated. Colorful rainbows arced and…. Nothing, dammit. Her frazzled nerves refused to be soothed. Trying not to alert her aunt, whose over-emotional farewells had already delayed proceedings, Laura tugged on Winchester’s arm. His leather-gloved hand held fast. The devil take the blasted Earl and his oversized anatomy, his overwhelming maleness and his…
She shivered. Everything overpowering about this man, including his unwanted invasion of her senses, ought to be declared illegal. A ticket tied to each limb reading: Danger. Avoid at all cost.
His cologne’s citrus tang, bergamot with an after-note of lemon, flooded her nose and made her sneeze. Another confirmation that the theory of natural selection being developed by scientists at the Royal Academe was correct. And an extra incentive to elude her keeper, ergot the enigmatic Earl, and pay another visit to her friends, Mr. Charles Darwin and his cousin, both men grandsons of Mr. Erasmus Darwin, famed researcher and theorist.
While she listed to herself the scientific reasons for avoiding the Earl, her herbalist and caring side, or more likely her feminine one, overruled. She reminded herself a few more drops of lemon should be added to the next batch of cologne she blended for Richard. Even as she mentally cursed her siblings for insisting she work closely with Winchester, Laura’s traitorous body responded in a physical way to his presence.
Imagining him, an expert financier, being granted full authority over not merely her ‘Change transactions, but also her daily household accounts, horrified her. Mortification would nail closed her coffin if he compared her scientific skills with those of her extraordinarily talented four siblings and found her wanting. Or, heaven save her, exposed her failures to the world.
1800s Early Robert Stephenson’s Innovative Steam Locomotives in Bridgerton and Jane Austen years. #Bridgerton #JaneAusten #Railway #BritishHistory
1800s Early Robert Stephenson’s Innovative Steam Locomotives.
Robert Stephenson (16 October 1803 – 12 October 1859), son of George Stephenson, called the Father of Railways, was an English railway and civil engineer who expanded on his father’s work with locomotives until he was regarded as the greatest engineer of the 19th century. He helped his father survey the Stockton and Darlington Railway line and later assisted in the first surveys of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway.
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Stephenson’s Rocket was built for and won the Rainhill Trials of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in October 1829 to show that improved locomotives would be more efficient than stationary steam engines. It was built at the Forth Street Works of Robert Stephenson’s company in Newcastle upon Tyne and was the most advanced locomotive of its day. The Rocket was based on earlier designs by George and Robert Stephenson, including the Killingworth locomotive Blücher in 1814, the Locomotion in 1825 and the Lancashire Witch in 1828.
Timeline for Robert Stephenson and his steam locomotives.
- 1821: Robert Stephenson assists his father George on surveying the Stockton and Darlington Railway.
- 1822: Robert assists with the first survey of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway.
- 1823: Robert becomes managing partner of locomotive builders Robert Stephenson & Co in Newcastle, the first locomotive company in the world.
- 1825: September – Stockton & Darlington Railway opens using locomotives from Robert Stephenson & Co.
- 1827: Robert assists his father George with construction of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway.
- 1829: Robert Stephenson & Co’s locomotive Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials.
- 1830: Robert appointed to survey a line between London and Birmingham.
- 1833: Robert appointed chief engineer of The London & Birmingham Railway.
- 1838: The London & Birmingham Railway is opened with Robert’s tunnels at Kilsby and Primrose Hill being major civil engineering works.
1730-1760 ca. Yellow Silk Folk Embroidery Bag, Russian. #GeorgianEra #Russia #reticule #Sewing
1730-1760 ca. Yellow Silk Embroidered Bag, Russian. From: Collection of Natalia de Shabelsky (1841-1905), Russian noblewoman preserving vanishing folk art traditions of her country. Traveling extensively throughout Great Russia, she collected textile art of wealthy peasant class. via Metropolitan Museum, NYC.
18th Century bags, or purses, were usually designed to hang from the waist or wrist to carry essential daily items on the person rather than making the long walk back through a castle or grand house to fetch things like coins, personal seals, toiletries or medicines.
1730-1760 ca. Yellow Silk Embroidered Bag, Russian. #GeorgianEra #Russia #Fashion #reticule #Sewing http://books2read.com/suziloveReticules
1812 Tailcoat of Blue Drap, White Nankin Trousers With Ankle Openings As Men Wore In Jane Austen Times. #RegencyFashion #JaneAusten #HistoricalFashion
1812 Tailcoat of Blue Drap, French. White Nankin trousers with ankle openings, knotted white cravat, short hair with sideburns, black shoes, holding a black hat and walking stick. Fashion Plate via Journal des Dames et des Modes, Costume Parisien.
In the early 1800s, men no longer wore complicated styles and extravagant fabrics. Men’s fashion simplified and became more conservative. A well-cut tailcoat, vest, pantaloons and an immaculate cravat of beautiful white linen in the style of George Bryan, or Beau, Brummell. Clothes were a status symbol and indicated a man’s social position. These clothing items were the sort worn by the Bridgerton family and Jane Austen’s male family and friends.
Definition Drap: French equivalent for the English word cloth or stuff and generally applied to fabrics of wool or silk.
Definition Nankeen Or Nankin: Durable, buff colored cloth, made of Chinese cotton which is naturally brownish yellow. Originally brought from Nanking.
