Category: clothing and fashion
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How Did the Regency Upper Class Stay So Thin?
After all, we’ve seen those 3-tiered tea trays layered with cakes and sweets…
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Forget Persuasion, Watch Hallmark’s Sense and Sensibility! A Movie Review
In January 2024, Hallmark débuted four Jane Austen-inspired movies, from modern rom-coms to straight-up, Regency adaptations. I finally got to watch Sense and Sensibility, and it was lovely! Now, I adore Emma Thompson, so I cannot say that this surpassed her version, but for me it easily surpassed the most recent Persuasion (2022) or Emma…
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The Usefulness of Retrimming
Though I do not like to wear bonnets or gowns, I have learned others have enjoyed them immensely. What I noticed as a commonality from one Austen Fan Fiction novel to the next novella, variation or vagary, is that the girls are ever retrimming bonnets, exchanging the ribbons for a gown, refreshing garments with changed…
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Modern Magazine Covers Reimagined with Regency Headlines
Modern magazine covers transformed to cover top Regency stories, like: “It’s All in the Wrist: The Right Way to Pour His Tea.”
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Lying About is a Bummer
Good morrow, fair readers. I wish everyone a pleasant spring – or autumn for our fellow Janeites in the southern hemisphere. It’s not every day I commiserate with my characters… well, at least since leaving the Amish community a decade and a half ago. Occasionally, when I play adult dress up in my Regency gowns,…
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6 Things You Never Knew About Colin Firth’s Iconic Lake Scene (The last one will blow your mind!)
Some fun facts about the unforgettable lake scene…and the last one is a doozy.
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The Purse is the New Sewing Basket
As I looked into my purse, where there was a small wallet, a glasses case, mints, a pass for work, an international driver’s license, money from three countries, a small bottle of Advil, et al., I started to wonder how it would all fit into a reticule. Look at the one below, which would hold…
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Homemade Gifts
As the holidays are upon us and Christmas commercials endlessly inform us how to spend extravagantly for those we love, I am considering what might have been done in a simpler time. With the ability to purchase nearly anything one might wish with the click of a mouse, it is challenging to imagine a Christmas…
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Winners!
UPDATE AND CORRECTION: I had intended for those who answered my question last month to be declared the winners. Obviously my brain has had other ideas. Poor brain is having trouble adjusting to the Electric Chair. But we’re still all winners. SO . . . Since I can’t possibly give my book away to the…
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We are so very spoiled
Hi everyone. Yes, it is time once again for the ramblings from my mind. I grew up in central Illinois and had the honor of being raised with both sets of grandparents in my life. It was fun, as my dad’s parents collected antiques, and, having been raised with them and having respect for them,…