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Halloween Costumes, Jane Austen Style!

Catherine Morland reading in Northanger Abbey

Halloween Costumes, Jane Austen Style!

Halloween is fast approaching, it's time to get your Jane Austen Halloween Costumes together

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A stitch of Austenian inspiration - JaneAusten.co.uk
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A stitch of Austenian inspiration

On finding fashion inspiration in the pages of Austen.

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Meet the online community bringing period dress to a new generation - JaneAusten.co.uk
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Meet the online community bringing period dress to a new generation

Who is going to teach Gen Z how to really dress? Meet the online personalities bringing period dress to a new generation.    

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Why Do We Have No Pockets? The Regency Removed Them - JaneAusten.co.uk
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Why Do We Have No Pockets? The Regency Removed Them

How frustrating is it having no pockets? Very. Just need to take your keys and a phone out with you that day? Don't want the inconvenience of having to take a bag with you? Too bad, you'll still ne...

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Jane Austen's Bracelet - JaneAusten.co.uk
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Jane Austen's Bracelet

Create your own bracelet like the one on display at Chawton Cottage

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The Jane Austen Topaz Cross
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The Jane Austen Topaz Cross

  Along with her turquoise ring, the topaz cross must be the most iconic jewellery item associated with Jane, and it's of especial relevance to us here at the Jane Austen Centre, because she was li...

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A Ballgown for April, 1812 - JaneAusten.co.uk
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A Ballgown for April, 1812

Fashion plates were one way of keeping Au Courant with the latest styles

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Parasols - JaneAusten.co.uk
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Parasols

The exquisite creamy complexion of the Regency maid, though a far cry from the powdered beauties of the previous century, required much care, if one wished to avoid a sunburn or freckles. One n...

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Prussian Blue - A Colourful History - JaneAusten.co.uk
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Prussian Blue: A Colourful History

...a popular color choice for painters, fashion and interior designers.

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Tambour Work - JaneAusten.co.uk
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Tambour Work

... another way to embellish the white-on-white gowns popular during the Regency

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Polemoscope: Georgian "Jealousy Glasses" - JaneAusten.co.uk
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Polemoscope: Georgian "Jealousy Glasses"

How To Spy On A Suitor Without Looking Like You’re Trying...

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A Little Sea Bathing Would Set me up Forever! - JaneAusten.co.uk
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A Little Sea Bathing Would Set me up Forever!

The Sea air and Sea Bathing together were nearly infallible, one or the other of them being a match for every Disorder...

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