This may be my one Fashion Pink (TM) book
06.05.2025 20:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@austendress.bsky.social
A glossary of fashions inc. men, women, hair, beauty, jewellery, textiles and trimmings. Books- Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion, 2019 Jane Austen's Wardrobe, 2023 By Hilary Davidson @fourredshoes.bsky.social, published by @YaleBooks London
This may be my one Fashion Pink (TM) book
06.05.2025 20:19 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The cover of my new book. It's bright pink with the title in deep red writing. The cover image is a collage of original Regency images of men and women, including portraits and fashion plates.
NEW BOOK COVER REVEAL!!
A Guide To Regency Dress comes out in October-November, depending where you are, published by the marvellous @yalebooks.bsky.social.
The preorder back for my new book A Guide To Regency Dress. Follow the links in post for the same information.
It's nearly real! A Guide To Regency Dress is now live on the @yalebooks.bsky.social websites.
Available to pre-order in the UK, out 14 October.
yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300...
Not yet available to pre-order in the US, out 11 November there
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Update: my copy editor kindly pointed out that I forgot to write an entry for velvet. My favourite fabric π€¦ββοΈ
20.02.2025 13:25 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Out in October!
19.02.2025 03:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0It's a light silk gauze. Definite swoosh potential.
18.02.2025 20:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Tbh I'm already worrying about people not finding the specific thing they're looking for in the Guide, but hoping they will be dazzled by what they do find instead π€£. This is not the fabric you were looking for, but here's a better one, such as tiffany, love, or zephyrine!
18.02.2025 20:21 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0The new book A Guide To Regency Dress has so! many! images! I'm nearly done, but keep getting distracted by more juicy details of dress and textiles I want to share. I've found an excellent illustration of the much rarer male Spencer, for example, and can show you what gros de Tours fabric was.
18.02.2025 20:19 β π 34 π 5 π¬ 3 π 1Some new book updates!
It's going to be called A Guide To Regency Dress: From Corsets and Breeches to Bonnets and Muslins.
Out October in the UK and worldwide, November in the US.
It's full of images I've never used in the previous books, and some that have never been published.
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29.12.2024 07:32 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A scalloped edged, triangular design for a gentleman's neck handkerchief featuring stylised leaves.
Took advantage of the email drop off to finally add the most recent batch of #C18th patterns onto my website. There are now 269 originally needlework designs freely available on the Lady's Magazine website: ladysmagazine.omeka.net Rather fond of this gentleman's neck handkerchief...
20.12.2024 14:25 β π 109 π 34 π¬ 7 π 6Happy birthday to Jane Austen!
16.12.2024 16:47 β π 18 π 2 π¬ 0 π 016. #BTPPAdventCalendar
It's HEEEEE-EEEERRRRRRREEEE!!!!!!!
The one, the only, the iconic, the emblematic scene of this and all other Austen adaptations; 'the scene that changed everything', as the BBC called it. And we're gonna deep dive (ha!) into it.
It's got very chilly here in New York, so in the interests of keeping others feeling cosy, please enjoy this piece on Jane Austen and Christmas I wrote in 2019 when the first book Dress in the Age of Jane Austen was published.
yalebooksblog.co.uk/2019/12/11/j...
Thank you!
25.11.2024 14:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Thank you Jenny, that means a lot!
24.11.2024 14:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I would like to announce that I have a third book on Regency dress in the works. *Not* centred on Jane Austen, this one's a general guide to clothing, hair, jewellery and textiles of Britain c. 1795-1820, out October 2025, again with the wonderful @yalebooks.bsky.social. More details as they arrive!
24.11.2024 06:34 β π 111 π 15 π¬ 9 π 5Jane Austen's Wardrobe is available to preorder now from Yale University Press, or your preferred book seller.
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300263602/jane-austens-wardrobe/