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Research sites that focus on the fashion and appearance of both men and women of the Regency Era.
With very few exceptions, descriptions are not my opinions but excerpts pulled from the sites. Each link will open in a new page. 
Regency Fashion
- 18th Century Fabrics
- Cotton is something to be careful about in writing about this period as it was forbidden in England, France and Prussia (and possibly other countries I don't know about) during the larger part of the century, except the very early and very late period.
- Regency Fabrics
- What types of material were popular in the Regency? Which fabrics were used for which garments?
- Learn here about muslins, printed cottons, silks, and velvets. Site states linen, wool, and leather information to come.
- Regency Fashion History
- … the high-waisted graceful styles of early 19th century are known as the Empire style. The Empire dress which evolved in the late 1700s began as a chemise shift gathered under the breasts and at the neck.
- What did they wear to bed?
- This garment [underclothing], basic for both men and women, was straight cut, usually knee length, and had the elbow length sleeves set straight into the shoulders. The women wore their shifts under their corsets, and in the second half of the 17th and 18th centuries the frills at the low cut neckline at the elbow were intended to show in the openings of the dress.
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Regency Appearance
- Hair Dyes
- The practice of artificially changing the colour of the hair, and particularly dyeing it, has descended to us from remote antiquity; and though not so common in western Europe as formerly, is still far from infrequent at the present day.
- Regency Colors
- Ever picked up a Regency novel and wondered about the strange color descriptions?
- 1800s Accessories
- Shawls, Kashmir Shawls, Hats, Reticule Handbags, Jewellery, The Tippet, Footwear, The Cloak or Mantles and Mantelets, Gloves.
- Cosmetics
- Apparently the only kind of make-up were white and red paint — either as a powder or mixed with a pomad. The recipes speak of powder most of the time, probably because creams tend to go bad without preservatives or cooling — neither was available at the time ...
- Women's Bandeaux
- The April, 1794 Issue of The Gallery of Fashion features in Fig. 3, "three yards of white satin, formed into a bandeau, turned up behind, and mixed in easy fold with the curls."
- Women's Veils
- Pictures of Regency period veils.
- Bonnets & Hats
- Pictures of Regency period bonnets and hats.
- Women's Turbans
- Turbans, Chiffonets, and Turkish Caps, 1794-1798.
- Women's Headdress's
- Headdress was a general term for any type of decoration worn on the head. With Undress, caps or more rarely, veils, were worn. When one went out walking or in a carriage, bonnets and turbans were the norm.
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Women's Regency Clothing
- Regency Fashion History
- Site has:
- 1800-1825 is it Late Georgian, Regency or Both?
- Bonaparte's Influence on Fashion 1804,
- The Empire Style 1800,
- The Fabrics for Empire Line Dresses,
- Decoration That Helps Identify and Date Dresses 1800-1825,
- Classical Grecian Decoration on Dress 1800-1803,
- Egyptian Ornament on Classical Dress 1804-1807,
- European And Military Influence in Decoration 1808,
- The Gothic Influence 1811,
- Variations in Fashion Between France and England 1808-14,
- Rise and Fall of the Waistline 1815 -1825,
- Anglomania,
- The Pelisse 1800-1850,
- Earl Spencer and the Short Spencer Jacket 1795,
- Military Touches, The Redingote 1818.
- How to Dress
- For reasons of decency, we start with a lady who already wears the shift, a cap and stockings ...
- Fashion and Fun in 1808
- Dresses of 1808 from Le Beau Monde, or Literary and Fashionable Magazine.
- Cloaks, Capes, Pelisses & Spencers: Outerwear for Regency Ladies
- In 1799, as the 18th Century was quietly taking its last breath and the craze was for all things classical, the spencer and pelisse were making their debut.
- The pelisse has a somewhat more mundane genesis: with the fashion of the time favoring lightweight fabrics with almost no underclothing, women were literally freezing to death.
- Dinner Dresses
- Dinner dress doesn't become a special type of dress in women's fashion journals until late in the Regency. Dinner dress is part of the general category of half dress, a semi-formal type of outfit worn from the afternoon into the early evening or for informal evening gatherings.
- The Regency Redingote Page
- This redingote is heavily trimmed in the military style mimicking "the epaulets and the Hungarian passementerie from the uniforms of the dashing hussars." (Kessler 46)
- Morning Dresses
- Morning dress is basically the most plain type of dress a fashionable lady wore.
- Walking Dresses
- Pictures of Regency period walking dresses.
- Promenade Dresses
- This dress is very like many morning dresses. It is of white muslin with a long violet perline or short cape over it.
- Full Dress
- "Full dress" is the most formal kind of dress in a Regency Lady's wardrobe. Full dress is to be worn for the most formal occasions — evening concerts and card parties, soirees, balls, and court occasions.
- Half Dress
- "Half Dress" is perhaps one of the most difficult concepts to grasp about Regency Fashion. Basically it is any dress halfway between Undress and Full Dress, or between informal dress.
- Undress
- "Undress" meant simply casual, informal dress in the Regency period … Undress is the sort of dress to be worn from early morning to noon or perhaps as late as four or five, depending on the engagements one had.
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Men's Regency Clothing & Style
- The Men's Page
- ... on Regency Clothing. Men's fashions with pictures.
- Regency Neckcloth
- The Neckcloth, under the influence of Beau Brummell, the finely arranged cravat became the sign of the truly fashionable man.
- Gentleman's Wardrobe
- The resplendently-garbed Georgian father, upon inspecting his Regency son, would probably have deemed the relatively relaxed clothing of his heir better suited for the country house than for the showy life in Town.
- Men's Wear - Jessamyn's
- This is the prototype of the Regency man: Beau Brummel. He is wearing an absolutely typical men's Regency day outfit. This is transacting-business-about-town dress, versus riding dress or evening dress.
- Men's Hairstyles
- Hair in the late 18th century was worn long, particularly by older and more conservative gentlemen.
- Men's Hats
- The carefully tailored, plain-cloth garments that made up the fashionable Regency man's wardrobe rose up out of the country wear of the English gentleman, and the hat of the period was no exception.
- Green Formal Velvet Suit
- c. 1805 - 1810.
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