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Fashions of the Extended Regency Era
1800-1820

:: Ladies' Fashions :: Gentlemen's Fashions ::
We all, as readers and as writers, have a picture of the elegantly dressed people of the Regency era in our heads.
The picture comes from a variety of sources--Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, perhaps Ackermann's Repository of the Arts.
A picture of people like these:
     
These are the epitome of the well-dressed aristocracy at the height of the Regency, say 1815.
Once the fashionable had abandoned the ladies' hoops and panniers, and the gentlemen's brocades and clocked stockings, fashion settled into a more predictable mode. Nevertheless it did have an evolution of its own over the years.
 
From the classical simplicity of 1800 to the subtle enhancements of 1805::
     
 
From the subtleties of 1805 to the embellishments of 1810:
     
     
From the trimmings of 1810 to the flourishes of 1815-1820:
     
 
     
 
Ladies' Fashions
 
 
And now for a closer look at the ladies:
 
     
 
Their accessories and costume details:
 

 
Their style--increasingly decorated from the neoclassical look of 1800 to the flourishes of 1820:
   
   
 
Gentlemen's Fashions
 
 
And now a closer look at the gentlemen:
 
     
 
Their accessories and costume details:
 
Snuffbox above Banyan below
 
Their style--more and more simple as the century advanced:
above Beau Brummell by Tom Tierney
left & below dandies by Daniel Maclise