image from: http://historicalhussies.blogspot.com/2013/08/regency-ballrooms.html (link below)

One of the first things I remember The Regency Town House curator Nick Tyson telling me when we met up at the beginning of planning my residency, concerned the Regency practis...

The Saloon Dress

The embroidery effect decoration on this dress is inspired by the wallpaper of their recently renovated Saloon, with special photographic permission from The Royal Pavilion, Brighton
 

Please see: https://brightonmuseums.org.uk/royalpavilion/whattosee/s...

This Wikipedia list of the wars that have involved Great Britain from the 1700's to the present day is harshly illuminating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_Kingdom

Arguably the Regency era was an especially busy period and the social imp...

Ok, so these garments aren't currently hidden from public view which is why I'm posting the images here rather than on The Hidden Wardrobe but The National Army Museum, Chelsea, London is a museum I hadn't heard of before I began this research and I wonder if that is m...

The Annunciation with Saint Emidius by Carlo Crivelli 1485 (National Gallery)

If there's a bird that's been more frequently reflected in the visual and decorative arts I don't know what it is. Taking on the Peacock and attempting to interpret it in a new way is therefor...

Inspired by a very beautifully decorated shoe from the 1890's (see: http://stephaniesmart.wixsite.com/stephaniesmart/single-post/2018/10/25/Shoes-across-300-years) and this drawing of Doves, which I came across as part of my research into illustrations of birds by earl...

Early nineteenth century botanical illustrations and engravings are wonderful for their detail, intricacy, accuracy and (just occasionally) for their apparently rather random diversions fact. The images of this bird with it's tail feathers raised and lowered (see below...

During the Regency era: "The spencer was worn as a cardigan, or as a short, fitted jacket cut to just above waist level, or, in Empire style, to the bust line, and tailored on identical lines to the dress.

The use of the term spencer continued well into the 19th century...

During the French revolution the fashion for all things Neoclassical dramatically changed the way the female form was dressed. Extreme corsetry, panniers and silk brocade dresses were cast aside to be replaced by almost transparent Grecian styled light cotton gowns. Fo...

The Regency era was the last period in which buttons were hand-made. From 1850 machine-made buttons took over, coming from factories in the developing industries of Birmingham and other growing cities.

These two images show beautiful detailing including wonderful Regen...