Regency Ramble

    MORNING DRESS from Ackermann's August 1816 A round dress, composed of jaconot muslin, finished round the bottom of the skirt b...

     From Ackermann's July 1816            OPERA DRESS. THIS dress is composed of white lace, and is worn over a rich soft white...

  A second lovely gown from our Mrs Gill of Cork Street, Burlington Gardens. I think you might agree that there is great similarity in th...

Bridal Gown from Ackermann's June 1816 This is one of the prettiest gowns we have seen for a while. Of particular note is the sta...

A Carriage Dress from Ackermann's for May 1816 A cambric slip, tucked very high, and finished at the bottom with a deep flounce of w...

Evening Gown May 1816    A WHITE satin slip, over which is a white lace dress, ornamented with three quillings of white lace on the skirt,...

Opera Dress Ackermann's April 1816 Oddly, this is almost exactly the same gown as the other plate for 1816.  I guess this really was...

Oops how did this happen. No fashion since April? Right. Sleeves rolled up. Back on it. I'll be posting couple a week until we are...

Introducing Bladen Read from More Than A Lover In stores April 19    Lots of giveaways and events happening. Here are some links: Now...

MORNING DRESS April 1816 - Ackermann's A ROUND dress composed of cambric, and finished at the bottom with a number of small tucks, ...

Starts April 1 More Than a Lover Will he unlace all of her secrets?  Former captain Bladen Read knows respectable Caroline Fa...

Carriage Dress From Ackermanns From March 1816 To me this looks like a cross between a graduation outfit and a carpet. Here is the of...

I anticipated this post would be purely selfish. And yet after digging a bit deeper, perhaps it has some relevance to Regency-world lovers a...

Evening Dress, March 1817 the trimming of which is top secret---apparently.... From the March Ackermann's Repository 1816 EVENING ...

From time to time I post a needlework project I have completed.  Here is a blackwork tray cloth I undertook after a class with Liz Almond. I...

Not only am I offering leap year special at BookGoodies.com , but I have an extra day to post  February fashions for 1816. Promenade Dre...

Valentine's Day is always a special day in the world of Romance, no what genre or era.  In the Regency Valentine's Day was marked wi...

Given that the Season has hardly started, we begin with a very elegant gown.  Perhaps an invitation to a country estate came your way. If so...

I love the embroidery on this gown. EVENING DRESS - Ackermann's   January 1816 A white crape frock over a satin slip; the frock i...

St Nicholas of Myra is an absolute treasure. It dates from the fourteenth century, though there has been a church in Brighthelstone since ...