Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen

Sarah Jane Downing

• 20 augustus 2011
• 9780747811619

Samenvatting:

The broader Regency period 1795 to 1820, stands alone as an incredible moment in fashion history, unlike anything that went before it. For the first time England became a fashion influence, especially for menswear, and became the toast of Paris, as court dress became secondary to the season-by-season flux of fashion as we know it today. Sarah Jane Downing explores the fashion revolution and the innovation that inspired a flood of fashions taking influence from far afield. It was an era of contradiction immortalised by Jane Austen, who adeptly used the new-found diversity of fashion to enliven her characters: Wickham"s military splendour; Mr Darcy"s understated elegance; and Miss Tilney"s romantic fixation with white muslin.