I am a very fortunate woman…fortunate in my readers and my friends. A reader who is also a friend sent me a lovely Regency gown a couple of months ago. It is a beautiful peach with a rainbow underskirt…it is just darling! I am looking forward to wearing it a conference. When I do, I’ll have one of my buddies take a photo of me in it so I can share the fun.
But as today is Regency Friday, I found myself thinking of the Regency “jacket” I adore from the fabulous Colin Firth version of Pride and Prejudice, the spencer. Now I know that the spencer is a staple of Regency dress and can be found in every production, but the ones Lizzie wore in my favorite Pride and Prejudice struck me as especially beautiful.
When I was online this morning I ran across a brilliant website, Maggie May’s Clothing’s Dress Diaries. The entire site is a jewel, but my favorite so far are the beautiful spencers. Come and take a gander…you’ll be enthralled too…if you’re mad about the Regency period 🙂 Which I am…