A Guide To Regency Dress
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
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PhD candidate at ARU Cambridge studying the Norman Cross PoW material culture at Peterborough Museum. Author of Exploring the Lives of Victorian Prostitutes. Member of Peterborough Women’s History Group #ME/CFS
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Fashion historian. Award-winning author of 'Love Vintage' and 'Style is Eternal'. Collector. Educator. Valuer. Museum professional. MA Cultural Heritage. Working on the PhD. https://circavintageclothing.com.au
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Fashion Historian. NEH Public Scholar. Working on a biography of the best fashion designer you've never heard of. Also me: @wornonthisday.bsky.social
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Fashion/material culture scholar. Collections manager. Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. AskHistorians moderator. (she/her) Blog: http://mimicofmodes.com Author newsletter: http://buttondown.com/cassidypercoco
@isabellarosner.bsky.social
Textile historian🪡 curator, Royal School of Needlework | research associate, Witney Antiques | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her
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Prof. of art/fashion history @ FIT & Editor of *Fashion in European Art* & of the Fashion History Timeline. *The Art of Parisian Chic: Modern Women and Modern Artists in Impressionist Paris* (@artofparisianchic.bsky.social), Bloomsbury Visual Arts in 2025.
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@rpzquinton.bsky.social
Dress & textile curator. Occasional quilter & appallingly bad knitter. She/her. Views my own.
@saruzzza.bsky.social
chief conservator | Cleveland Museum of Art fashion | textiles | museums | conservation
@sarahabendall.bsky.social
Material Culture & Gender Historian | Trade, Production & Consumption of Fashion, 1500-1800 | Recreation & Making |📖 Shaping Femininity (Bloomsbury) | Co-I AHRC Making Historical Dress Network | 👩🏻🏫Senior Lecturer | sarahabendall.com
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@rebeccaolds.bsky.social
Early Modern Dress & Textile Historian | Researcher Maker Teacher | UofGlasgow PGDip Dress & Textile Histories | www.timesmith.co.uk | cycling, live music, cats | former trademark attorney | 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 (she/her)
@fancyhistorian.bsky.social
Leverhulme ECF at Newcastle Uni | Historian of Leisure, Fashion, & Commercialisation | 📖 ‘Domino’ CUP 2023 | 📖 ‘Masquerade’ YUPL 2026 | Mother runner, coffee enthusiast.
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#18thc historian of dance, political culture, sociability, and embodiment, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Liverpool (Assembly Rooms) Thesis on dance and political culture in late Georgian Britain https://linktr.ee/hillary.burlock
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PhD. Art and cultural historian, speaker. Senior editor, Met Museum. Author, BEYOND VANITY: THE HISTORY AND POWER OF HAIRDRESSING
@slopclothes.bsky.social
Historian of clothes and the maritime world in the long nineteenth century, 1660-1989. Aspiring Titanic influencer. She/Her
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Historian of 18C/19C women, politics, sociability and cosmopolitanism. Frequently infuriated by politics. Reposting not necessarily a statement of personal beliefs.
@sallytuckett.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer Dress and Textile History | Eighteenth-century dress & textiles | Scotland | Tartan | Linen | Knitting
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Award-winning writer and Orion Book Award finalist. American in Paris. Books: THE OYSTER WAR; HIGH HEEL. Next: THE PARISIAN SPHINX, A TRUE TALE OF ART & OBSESSION. Leonard Cohen blew me a kiss one time. Substack: https://www.awritersnotebook.org/
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(1902-1974) Novelist. Wit. Changing lodgings. Accept no imitations.
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I'm a designer & design educator. I love ballet, sustainability, fashion & fashion history. #vegan 🌱🩰 I speak for no one but myself. she/her
@zarakesterton.bsky.social
PhD student at Cambridge studying flowers in 18th century French fashion 🌸
@elisabethgernerd.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @ De Montfort University * The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear and Accessories in the late 18th-Century Atlantic World * Dress History, Satirical Prints, Georgian Sartorial Culture
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Historian of the long 18thC, editor, genealogist. 📚 Book: The Fall of the House of Byron 📝 Writing about: Marie Antoinette’s ladies
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Writer and professor of medieval literature. I'm a columnist at the TLS, sometimes co-host a podcast with Mary Wellesley at the LRB, and am one of the editors of @creativecritical.bsky.social. irinadumitrescu.com
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Living in a two loom garage with an attached house in the Cascadia bioregion. Mostly things related to textiles, and lots of photos of Victor Velluto, an elegant goofball Russian Blue cat.
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Books: Tea with Jane Austen, At Home with Jane Austen, In the Garden with Jane Austen. Traveling Lecturer 2023 Jane Austen Society of North America. 18th & 19th century history of material culture, food history. www.kimwilsonauthor.com. 🚫 👑
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A book fanatic with an unhealthy amount of knowledge about Russian Lit, Jane Austen, and Lotrs. This is my platform to post daily about fashion history.
@cora.bsky.social
Aspiring Fashion Historian. MA student in Fashion & Textile Studies. Formerly The Lingerie Addict.
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Susana Ellis is a retired teacher, part-time caregiver, sewist, cook, and fashion print collector. Lifelong reading and a fascination with history led her to writing historical romances. She is one of the original Bluestocking Belles. She/her.
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@fleminist.bsky.social
VAP, literary historian, meme curator. |literature of the long c18, material culture, gender, politics, & empire.| She/her.
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She/her, 1st gen, Canadian who's at Harvard but isn't OF Harvard-posts mainly about books (w/ cats & flowers thrown in for good measure). Now writing an itty-bitty book that aims to be a literary & media history of scrap. Website: https://deidrelynch.org
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I write, teach writing, and lead writing retreats. My next novel, Miss Caroline Bingley, Private Detective, co- written with Sharmini Kumar, is out in 2025 (HarperCollins).
@vickyhaddock.bsky.social
Dress and design historian. Museum professional. DATS Secretary. Views my own.
@heathermollauthor.bsky.social
Author of romantic regency Jane Austen Variations. Former librarian. Georgian jewelry fan. Compulsive tea drinker. https://www.heathermollauthor.com
@carolynaday.bsky.social
British historian, historian of medicine, & lover of fashion. Author of Consumptive Chic: A History of Beauty, Fashion and Disease & Remembering Anne Beach: Love, Scandal & Sickness in 18th century Britain (forthcoming UTP).
@mantuamaker.bsky.social
Journeywoman Mantuamaker | Historical Costumer | Workshop Instructor at Burnley & Trowbridge Co | Cat Lover
@fitgradfts.bsky.social
Fashion and Textile Studies: History, Theory, Museum Practice MA, School of Graduate Studies, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York City https://www.fitnyc.edu/academics/academic-divisions/graduate-studies/fashion-textile-studies/index.php