I have many blog entries planned, some on very serious topics like war and health. But I can’t stop looking at “Les Modes.” I promise that after this post, I won’t blog about “Les Modes” for at least a week (maybe)
But the dresses are so pretty…
Some interesting advertisements I found today.
You know these dresses so look more historical than the Regency ones. Perhaps if am just more accustomed to the regency fashions or it might be that dresses with Empire waists are more similar to some I might wear, or have worn.
At the same time I feel that designers must study historical costumes and borrow parts from things from the past.
I’m just mesmerized by these gowns, more so than Regency. You are right, we have so much Jane Austen in our culture, that Regency gowns seem a bit common now. Of course, I haven’t seen Downton Abbey, which is closer to the time period here.
yes, the fashions of the early 1910s did borrow from the draping and neo-classical style of the Regency period, but over 100 years later