Pelisse Me Regency

13/02/2023

Our 2023 Annual Meeting was full of great information (and shopping!). Thanks for all who attended live and on Zoom. Keep an eye out for all the great programs set for the year.

12/08/2021

Oye.

06/08/2021

This shalnt be in my shop.

Gentle Readers, can someone explain what is going on with this hood? Our Friday Fashion ( Victim) looks as if she’s being swallowed by a blacmange.

05/08/2021

What are you working on?

25/07/2021

Beautiful!

Complex in structure and typically floral in design, the 19th century saw a fashion in jewelry making that has mostly vanished now. It became quite popular to create densely worked jewelry entirely out of seed pearls and wire. This is a superb example of the style. This tiara comes from the 1820s and includes multiple types of flowers and even a few buds that are mounted en tremblant.
Seed pearl jewelry often got made up in parures of pieces, though earrings, brooches, and bracelets were the most commonly available sorts.

24/07/2021

Lol

I, For One, Gentle Readers, would not like to be caught in an alley with the bird who gave up that feather! Must be a monstrously large and angry beast! I think our Friday Fashion (Victim) should rethink her choice of headgear.

A Modern Belle Going to the Rooms at Bath, James Gillray, 1796

16/07/2021

If you asked me what I thought my biggest seller would have been at Jane Fest, I would have speculated the lovely array of colorful shawls. I was wrong! The chemisettes flew off the racks as fast as we put them out. Keep your eye out for a new line of chemisettes, in a variety of fabrics and styles, and fiscus coming to the shop soon.

This lovely is from the collection of the Costume Institute, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

11/07/2021

I decree Jane Fest a Success!

10/07/2021

28/06/2021

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25/06/2021

Would you buy this if I made it?

Gentle Readers, I beg your indulgence for a moment, but I must be blunt. Why, oh why, would you wear high collared furry outerwear if it has no sleeves?! What exactly is the point?! Our Friday Fashion (Victim) needs to go back to wherever she purchased this horror and demand satisfaction.

18/06/2021

None of my offerings at Jane Fest shall be this extreme.

16/06/2021

Great info from a talented lady.

The Regency era had a massive range of bust support options (and a few decorative ones) that were considered Corsets! It may be a short period in fashion his...

11/06/2021

You won’t see this dress in my booth!

Gentle Readers, pray, be honest. Which part of this, um, delightful (cough cough) yellow gown of our Friday Fashion (Victim) did your eyes bee line to first? Was it the bonnet with the odd kerchief over the crown? No? was it the long gold necklace or the fur tippet? No? Was it the weirdly placed yellow tear drop shaped thingies on her bosom? Do I hear BINGO!? May wonders never cease.

04/06/2021

Psssst. Friday Fashion (Victim). I don’t think that parasol is going to do anything. Why bother carrying it?!

02/06/2021

It's official! The Jane Austen Festival in Kentucky is on! Come visit me as I'll be vending at the event.

15/05/2021

LOL

“Does this dress make my butt look big? Is that a pimple?! “The woes of our Friday Fashion ladies.

08/05/2021

Coming to Jane Fest soon! Yes, I shall be vending at the Jane Austen festival in Kentucky this July. More info to come....

07/05/2021

I love the head wrap!

With the weather turning warmer many of us are relishing time out of doors. What a delightful image our Friday Fashion Lady presents enjoying nature with her playful pooch.

02/05/2021

What an amazing resource!

Digital exhibits and collection of the Journal des Dames et des Modes (1797-1804)

01/05/2021

Hmmmm, Gentle Readers. What make you out of the hat on our Friday Fashion (Victim) on the right? Do we like the embroidery on the crown? One just might picture a pasty and tassel from the Art of Burlesque....

01/05/2021

There is something quite charming about a tassel to finish off the edges.

August 1807

23/04/2021

Oh my....

Hmmmmm. What do we make of our Fashion Friday (Victims) florals? Do we like the ginormous shrubbery erupting from the shoulders? Too much? Too little?

Print made by Isaac Cruikshank, 1756–1810, British
after George Moutard Woodward, ca. 1760–1809, British
Title: Young Ladies, 1795

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:43122

16/04/2021

Does this neck ruffle make my bottom look big? Fashion Friday (Victim) strikes again.

09/04/2021

Oh my!

Gentle Readers, do we not feel for our two lovely Friday Fashion ladies? Sitting so daintily, enjoying a refreshing ice cream only to have one's beautifully shod foot trod upon? One wishes to shout "take human bites!"

From the British Museum: "Two pretty young Englishwomen (left) sit at a marble-topped table with a little girl between them who is eating an ice. Facing them is a clumsy-looking Englishman who gorges an ice, holding up the glass to his mouth, elbow on table; in his left hand is a small newspaper probably 'Galignani's Messenger', on a stick. He looks down, but presses, one foot on the silk boot of the lady opposite. A waiter, looking much better bred than the Englishman, approaches (right) with more ices. 1815"

French, printed on paper, series of six prints, print made by Philibert Louis Debucourt, published by Charles Bance.

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1861-1012-404

08/04/2021

Though published a bit before what is considered the Regency period, we can all, cannot we Gentle Readers, feel for our Friday Fashion Miss? Yet, what a clever girl to escape the grasp of a cad in such a jaunty manner? You go Miss, you go!

26/03/2021

Oh my.....

Gentle Readers, tis only aprospos that we give equal time to the male Friday Fashion (Victim). What do we feel about this ensemble? Though obviously a caricature of current fashions for the period, don't we all know someone who pushes the bounds? Has he though, crossed from fashion forward to ridiculous?

16/02/2021

As one who'd rather be hot than cold, this lady gives me the chills. But oh, what a lovely ensemble to be out and about in.

15/02/2021

I have several beautiful muffs coming but alas, they are not quite as grand or, might I add, impractical.

12/02/2021

Yikes!!!!

Good Lord Gentle Readers! What does one make of this? Is this not disturbing? To be sure, I, for one, am most distressed and perplexed as to what to make of this print. Every fiber of my being wishes to wrestle that poor young man out of the gaping maw of that she-shark and tell him to make great haste away from them both. What think you?