a guide toHairstyles(with lots of portraits), an outline ofSurface Features(colors, embroidery, trims, influences),How to Fake it: A Guide to the Silhouette(lots of gorgeous period gowns), andWhen One Tiara is not Enoughfor over the top jewels. It's All in the Details: Making a Regency...
LADIES’ MAGAZINESflourished in the 19thand early 20thCenturies. During this time illustrations of ladies’ fashions were beginning to be seen in abundance. These magazines and books are an invaluable resource, for both their editorial content and advertisements.Vintage Dress Series books include fashio...
Fashion plate showing three bust portraits of Jane Harding, Baronne de Carlsberg, and Suzanne, actresses at the Gymnase theater, Paris, wearing hats designed by Madame Carlier Women who wanted a more modest appearance often preferred bonnets but they became associated with a matronly appearance. The...
Her reputation, however, rests on the sketches, started in The Ladies Magazine (1819), that fill the five volumes of Our Village (1824–32). Based on her observation of life in and around Three Mile Cross, they catch the pleasant atmosphere of the English countryside and the quaintness of...
The map above shows the block behind the hospital that housed the hospital laundry and ‘dead house’. In November 1884 there were calls from the Ladies’ Committee to provide a separate mortuary so that the ‘dead house’ need no longer serve as both mortuary and post-mortem room: ‘…not...
Queen Victoria, too, posed for several portraits So did Cora Pearl, one of the most rapacious of all leading courtesans Performers considered the visit card an essential self-promoting tool. Here is Monsieur Léotard with his trapeze c.1865 ...
(Portraits of English Royals – just before Victoria’s influence, showing the large sleeves, low waist, and style coming out of Regency – with the subtle differences as Victorians began to create the demure and more “feminine” look using ringlets, bonnets, and emphasis on the waist) By ...
of London hospitals," the work contained information on diseases and advice on remedies, clearly aimed at household caregivers and part of the era's self-help ethos. Volume Four often added a seventeen-chapter bonus section called "The Ladies' Physician" with gynecological and obstetrical material...
In 1922, Emily Post added a brief addendum to this, clarifying what a man should do if he’s fortunate enough to be walking with two ladies: “A gentleman, whether walking with two ladies or one, takes the curb side of the pavement. He should never sandwich himself between the...
The hero of the novel, Colonel Esmond, is represented as telling his own story; he speaks as a gentleman spoke in those days, telling us about the politicians, soldiers, ladies and literary men of his time, with frank exposure of their manners or morals. As a realistic portrayal of an ...