tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007019440540153.post2480914341146384062..comments2024-03-27T03:26:27.837-04:00Comments on EKDuncan - My Fanciful Muse: Regency Era Fashions - Ackermann's Repository 1816Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02379345426326419483noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007019440540153.post-28252351723975117192012-01-29T02:04:10.569-05:002012-01-29T02:04:10.569-05:00Hi again Adela - Ya, I don't post an address h...Hi again Adela - Ya, I don't post an address here since I don't want to be "spammed" either.<br /><br />Please feel free to send me your email via my blog. I have my blog setting set so that I have to "publish" each comment before it goes live out on the web. I'll just NOT publish your next comment that gives me your email address.<br /><br />I'd rather not go the Facebook route since I'm having a hard time keeping up with all the posts from my small group of friends and family - I'm sure you know what I'm talking about.<br /><br />Hope this works for you,<br />EvelynEKDuncanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02362063209809089591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007019440540153.post-49836593070862541872012-01-28T13:47:41.860-05:002012-01-28T13:47:41.860-05:00Hi, Evelyn! Sorry I missed your response until no...Hi, Evelyn! Sorry I missed your response until now. I just sent you a friend request on Facebook as I'd like to correspond with you and can't find any email contact anywhere, and prefer not to post my own contact info publicly. I intended to send you an explanatory message on FB to accompany my friend request, but cannot find an option to do so (privacy settings?).<br /><br />I'm so glad you found my suggestions helpful. I have been studying Regency fashion for a long time and your thorough posts are truly wonderful.Adelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17611116321632250068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007019440540153.post-1347016791872745172012-01-22T16:00:25.962-05:002012-01-22T16:00:25.962-05:00Excellent point Adela - I believe you are entirely...Excellent point Adela - I believe you are entirely correct and I thank you for your generosity in bringing this to my attention. I've even removed my previous question on this post as to why these plates referred to each as "dress" rather than "gown" and included the information you have provided instead.<br /><br />This now makes so much more sense! The plates refer to the entire ensemble and for which occasion it would have been worn, as in how one would dress for the Opera = "Opera Dress" not that the dress it-self was being referenced but the entire "look" that would be appropriate for the Regency "dress code".<br /><br />Thanks so much for your input and your kind words on these posts. I've spent close to 8 months so far gathering, cleaning up and posting the Ackermann's items and am currently rather close to finishing the series up. It has been a labor of love; however at this stage of the game I am very ready to move on to other fun posts such as fashions from the times of Marie Antoinette and Toy Theater Backgrounds. I do not have any plans at this time to upload the Ackermann images to Wikimedia Commons; however thank you for the suggestion - I may consider it for some time in the future.<br /><br />Many thanks,<br />EvelynEKDuncanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02362063209809089591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007019440540153.post-41448426073099572402012-01-19T17:43:41.577-05:002012-01-19T17:43:41.577-05:00Regarding the usage of the word "dress" ...Regarding the usage of the word "dress" vs. "gown," I think that "dress" was not used only to describe an article of clothing. Instead, it was more generally a "way of being dressed," if you will, describing not just the principal garment but with all of the accoutrements taken together: what today on a fashion runway might be described as a "look." The descriptions sometimes mention "head-dress" too. And men also wore "evening dress" or "ball dress" or "riding dress" (I have an undated plate image so labelled). You'll sometimes see a description for, say, morning dress including terms like "round gown" or a ball dress using terms like "frock," "slip," and "petticoat," these latter not being yet considered intimate (never-seen) undergarments, but simply an underlayer meant to be seen. All that said, of course "dress" could mean a garment, as in the description for the very first plate for January 1816 above (plate 4). It may have had a specific meaning of a type of garment (like "frock" coming from "frock coat" and carrying some specific connotations), but I haven't studied the vocabulary to the degree of some people I know! The meanings of most of the terms have changed significantly over time. It might even be fair to say that they evolved almost as fast as the fashions themselves during the period 1790-1820.<br /><br />Thank you for your hard work in presenting these plates. You have done the world a valuable service extracting these images from the publicly-available (but not always easily findable) ebooks of Ackermann's, not only the fashion plates but the descriptions and the other plates too. Having them verified and in correct order with not only dates but plate numbers is fantastic. Would you be willing to consider uploading them all to Wikimedia Commons? I think perhaps a bot could be used to make it fairly painless.Adelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17611116321632250068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007019440540153.post-37494585215399952952011-08-22T14:06:39.356-04:002011-08-22T14:06:39.356-04:00Hey Larissa - I'm so glad you are enjoying all...Hey Larissa - I'm so glad you are enjoying all the great Regency Fashions. I know I now have a much stronger picture of Regency Romance characters in my head after spending so much time pondering the pages of Ackermann's and this just makes all the wonderful historical romances I read, that much better.<br /><br />Your writing style in "Lady Scandal" was so much like the Ackermann's verbiage that I could not help but tie it in with these great images. They just seemed to belong together.<br /><br />Thanks for creating fun reads!EKDuncanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02362063209809089591noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5007019440540153.post-19380622560942906342011-08-22T13:28:21.917-04:002011-08-22T13:28:21.917-04:00Yea! 1816!! I've been looking forward to Serie...Yea! 1816!! I've been looking forward to Series 2 :-) <br /><br />This is what I get for not hounding your website daily -- I just now saw the wonderful things you said about Lady Scandal and my writing. Thank you so much! (Now that I've discovered your blog, I promise all of my Regency heroines will be much more favorably attired--at least until their hero comes along to disrobe them!) :) LarissaLarissa Lyonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05340374587009607803noreply@blogger.com