Women's Fashion

Court Gowns: Dressing the Part

Presentation at the Queen's Court, essential to a young lady's coming out, required it's own form of fashion.

Worn out to see and be seen in...

The rules and fashions of Regency mourning

Outerwear for Regency Ladies

The Gowns in Elizabeth Bennet's Wardrobe....

An excerpt by author Linore Rose Burkard

What to wear at a fashionable Regency Resort

An "Explaination of the Prints of Fashion: August 1807" from La Belle Assembl

Regency wedding gowns and colors

Was it really fashionable to be "expensively and nakedly dressed"?

The appeal of the promenade dress...

A collection of period fashion plates with descriptions

What fashionable ladies wore to the Theatre