Great post on men’s wear during the Regency and early Victorian eras. Stop by tomorrow my cover reveal for the Temptation of Lady Serena.
One of the benefits of gathering images for Pinterest is that one’s awareness of the minute differences in fashions from year to year improves. Daily exposure to thousands of fashion images from the Georgian era have taught me to notice the nuances of style and line. These images are one-sided, since very few articles of clothing from the lower classes survive. With rare exceptions, most museum quality fashions were made for the wealthy, and one must keep in mind when studying these images that fashions for the upper classes were vastly different from those of the working poor or laboring classes. Men’s trousers are a perfect example of class distinction.
By the turn of the 19th century, breeches, pantaloons and trousers worn by all men were sewn with a flap in front called a fall front. This flap was universally held in place by two or three buttons at the…
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Wow, great images! Not a period I am writing about, but the detail is going to be very useful to many writers.. Anybody remember a presentation several years ago at the SDSU Writers Conference that demonstrated what a Victorian (?) lady had to go through to get dressed?
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Thank you!