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A complete and fantastically illustrated exam of get dressed, apparel, model, and stitching within the Regency noticed throughout the lens of Jane Austen’s lifestyles and writings
This vigorous guide finds the apparel and model of the arena depicted in Jane Austen’s liked books, specializing in the lengthy Regency among the years 1795 and 1825. Right through this era, sped up modification noticed Britain’s turbulent access into the up to date age, and apparel mirrored those differences. Beginning with the intimate viewpoint of apparel the self, Dress within the Age of Jane Austen actions outward throughout the social and cultural spheres of house, village, geographical region, and towns, and into the broader nationwide and world nation-states, exploring the various techniques other people dressed to inhabit those environments. Jane Austen’s famously observant fictional writings, in addition to her letters, give you the access element for inspecting the Regency age’s wealthy complexity of favor, get dressed, and textiles for women and men in their recent contexts.
Lavishly illustrated with artwork, drawings, ancient clothes, and model plates—together with many up to now unpublished photographs—this authoritative but out there guide will assist readers visualize the exterior selves of Austen’s immortal characters as obviously as she wrote in their interior ones. The result’s an better working out of Austen’s paintings and time, and in addition of the historical past of one among Britain’s so much unique model eras.
This vigorous guide finds the apparel and model of the arena depicted in Jane Austen’s liked books, specializing in the lengthy Regency among the years 1795 and 1825. Right through this era, sped up modification noticed Britain’s turbulent access into the up to date age, and apparel mirrored those differences. Beginning with the intimate viewpoint of apparel the self, Dress within the Age of Jane Austen actions outward throughout the social and cultural spheres of house, village, geographical region, and towns, and into the broader nationwide and world nation-states, exploring the various techniques other people dressed to inhabit those environments. Jane Austen’s famously observant fictional writings, in addition to her letters, give you the access element for inspecting the Regency age’s wealthy complexity of favor, get dressed, and textiles for women and men in their recent contexts.
Lavishly illustrated with artwork, drawings, ancient clothes, and model plates—together with many up to now unpublished photographs—this authoritative but out there guide will assist readers visualize the exterior selves of Austen’s immortal characters as obviously as she wrote in their interior ones. The result’s an better working out of Austen’s paintings and time, and in addition of the historical past of one among Britain’s so much unique model eras.
