{"id":3374,"date":"2013-12-13T09:55:58","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3374"},"modified":"2013-12-13T09:55:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:55:58","slug":"regency-friday-dressing-up-austen-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3374","title":{"rendered":"Regency Friday: Dressing Up Austen-Style"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I adore the Regency period, or at least my very clean, very wealthy version of it. In my books, all the men are rich and handsome, and all the women are beautiful and fiery. They wear\u00c2\u00a0silk gowns and dance at elaborate balls, often\u00c2\u00a0with the Pricne Regent in attendance. In my novels, there are no Luddite riots, no starving veterans left to beg in the streets, wounded from the Napoleonic Wars.<\/p>\n

And I am not alone in this adoration.<\/p>\n

We have elaborate fantasies like AUSTENLAND\u00c2\u00a0where ladies pay to enjoy the fantasy of dressing in Regency gowns, and living a weekend worth of regency life.<\/p>\n

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And in real life, there are people who dress up in Regency clothing, and who enjoy casting themselves back into the past by reenacting it. Take a look at the video above of a modern version of a Regency ball held at Bath. I tell you, dressing up and dancing with men in tight breeches sounds like a lot of fun to me.<\/p>\n

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[youtube]http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bUknJSb_BWE[\/youtube] I adore the Regency period, or at least my very clean, very wealthy version of it. In my books, all the men are rich and handsome, and all the women are beautiful and fiery. They wear\u00c2\u00a0silk gowns and dance at elaborate balls, often\u00c2\u00a0with the Pricne Regent in attendance. In my novels, there are no …<\/p>\n

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