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When Is A Dress Not Just a Dress

When Is A Dress Not Just a Dress

This article was originally posted on Regency Reflections. If you’ve ever read a Regency-set novel, you’ve no doubt run across a description of the heroine’s clothing. It’s one of those things we do. But have you ever stopped to wonder what makes an afternoon dress different from a carriage dress? Or a ball gown different from a dinner gown? Here is a rundown of a few of the qualities that make a Regency dress fit for the proper occasion. Morning Dress Morning dresses were us

Regency Wards and Guardians ~ The Care of a Well-To-Do Orphan

Regency Wards and Guardians ~ The Care of a Well-To-Do Orphan

This post was originally part of a post written for Regency Reflections. The entirety of the original post can be found here. As long as people have been having children, there has been the question of what to do with them if the parents die before the child can care for themselves. In Regency England that care depended greatly on who your parents had been. Orphanages were frequently reserved for the poor or poorly connected. Those with higher connections and particularly tho

The Regency Spy ~ Sorting Fact from Fiction

This post is part of an article on Regency Reflections. You can view the original post in entirety here. The Regency Spy. He is such a popular figure in fiction that it can be difficult to know where the story ends and the truth begins. Accounts of actual spies are vague and difficult to find. Not surprising, as they were spies. Undercover work wasn’t exactly respected at the time and was usually done by people acting as double agents: mistresses, traveling poets, scholars, d

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