A Thousand Pixels: Georgian Fashion

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Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Ladies' Monthly Museum, May 1816

I've scanned these pictures and articles from a compilation book- therefore, there is some distortion around the "gutter" area (middle of the book). Luckily, I have a very good scanner and accompanying application for it, which lessens the problems.

The scanner/printer/fax machine is really great. I dropped it when I was moving last October "CRASH! Tinkle-clunk". Goodbye lovely printer-scanner! So I bought another, exactly the same. Not too expensive, about $150.00 with shipping.

My first ever scanner (1990), which was only a scanner! cost $2,000.00 dollars. It was a bit larger, but other than that, does not compare to my current one.

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Georgette Heyer Valentine's Day Card: Powder & Patch

Monday, January 23, 2012

Georgette Heyer: These Old Shades for Valentine's Day

I'm feeling kind of 'meh' today, colors seem washed-out. We had a very pretty snow from last night which meant a "late" day for school. Fun. Then it warmed up a couple of degrees and began drizzling- melted the pretty snow. So I decided to play around with my favorite Heyer Book Cover, the Pan paperback edition:

"Monseigneur, I would much rather be the last woman then the first."
"Little one," he said very low "since you will stoop to wed me, I pledge you my word that you shall not in the future have cause to regret it."

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Brighton Pavillion Cake

Here is a beautiful cake from Iced Gem Cakes

Here is a beautiful Brighton Pavillion Cake from "Iced Gem Cakes"
http://www.icedgemcakes.co.uk/brighton-cakes/royal-pavilion-brighton-cake
via "Cake Wrecks"

Brighton Bandstand Cake


Brighton Pier Cake

Sandcastle Cake

Friday, February 25, 2011

Hairstyles, Bonnets, Hats & Caps

Bonnets from Costume Parisien


Costume Parisien

Bonnets from Costume Parisien

Ackermann's Repository

Georgian Wedding Cake!

From a Martha Stewart cake site

Wedgewood style (Regency or Georgian)

So Pretty! From same link as above.

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Georgian (or Bourbon) Era Etchings

"After the Soire" and La Dame Du Palais De La Reine

Bourbon Era Fashion Etching

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

More Georgian Era etchings

Somebody is trying to seduce Someone Else.

Whist: early version of Bridge

Monday, February 7, 2011

Georgian Lady on Horseback

"La Renconatre Au Bois De Boulogne".

Print Nach Joan Michel Moreau le Jeune,
Geftochen von Heinrich Guttenberg

Bourbon era FAshion Etching

Bourbon Era Fashion Etching

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Gallery of Fashion, 1790-1822 Batsford Colour Books

Some scanned colour plates from the Batsford Book. From the cover flap:

"More than half of the colour plates from this volume are taken from Heideloff's Gallery of Fashion. His plates are among the masterpieces of the English School of aquatints; curiously little other work is known by him...

Gallery of Fashion Title Pages and Plate #1

Gallery of Fashion Georgian era/Regency Fashion -Court Gowns

Gallery of Fashion Georgian Fashion

Gallery of Fashion Georgian/Regency Fashion

..The other plates are a selection from the fashion plates in Ackermann's Repository of Arts, published from 1809-1828. These plates are dated 1822."

Gallery of Fashion, Ackermann's Regency Fashion

Gallery of Fashion Court Dress

Gallery of Fashion Regency/Georgian Fashion

Gallery of Fashion Regency Fashion Plates

Monday, January 10, 2011

La Mode Feminine

Here are some scans from a book I have, published in the 1920's, of fashion plates from the eras starting in 1795-to 1820. They used the pochoir (stencil) technique, rather than individually painting each print with water-colors as fashion magazines in the Georgian-Regency-Empire Era did.


La Mode Feminine, Empire/ Regency Fashion

La Mode Feminine Late Regency Early Victorian Fashion

La Mode Feminine Empire/Regency Fashion

The drawings are somewhat Art Deco-y; I think they highlight the similarity of Fashions of the time to the Regency time. Both were influenced by "Greco-Roman classicalism" mixed with Egyptian themes, the Empire/Regency got theirs from Napoleon (and then Admiral Nelson's) excursions to Egypt. And in the 20's fashion -and Art- was somewhat influenced by the discovery of King Tut's tomb.