{"id":3652,"date":"2014-05-30T07:24:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T11:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2014-05-30T07:24:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T11:24:30","slug":"regency-friday-maggie-may-fashions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3652","title":{"rendered":"Regency Friday: Maggie May Fashions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/spencerjacket2-238x300.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3653 lazyload\" alt=\"spencerjacket2-238x300\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/spencerjacket2-238x300.jpg\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 238px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 238\/300;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3653\" alt=\"spencerjacket2-238x300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/spencerjacket2-238x300.jpg\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1401447881262_6543\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1401447881262_6547\">\n<div id=\"yiv1152345770\">\n<style><!--\n#yiv1152345770 p\n\t{margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;}\n#yiv1152345770 p\n\t{margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;}\n--><\/style>\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1401447881262_6546\">\n<div id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1401447881262_6545\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1401447881262_6688\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/maggiemayfashions.com\/sewingblog\/velvet-spencer-jacket\/\">Maggie May Fashions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1401447881262_6544\">I am a very fortunate woman&#8230;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&#8230;it is just darling! I am looking forward to wearing it a conference. When I do, I&#8217;ll have one of my buddies take a photo of me in it so I can share the fun.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1401447881262_6580\">But as today is Regency Friday, I found myself thinking of the Regency &#8220;jacket&#8221; I adore from the fabulous Colin Firth version of <em id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1401447881262_6686\">Pride and Prejudice<\/em>, 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 <em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em> struck me as especially beautiful.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1401447881262_6581\">\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1401447881262_6582\">When I was online this morning I ran across a brilliant website, Maggie May&#8217;s Clothing&#8217;s Dress Diaries. The entire site is a jewel, but my favorite so far are the beautiful spencers. Come and take a gander&#8230;you&#8217;ll be enthralled too&#8230;if you&#8217;re mad about the Regency period \ud83d\ude42 Which I am&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maggie May Fashions &nbsp; I am a very fortunate woman&#8230;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&#8230;it is just darling! I am looking forward to wearing it a conference. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/?p=3652\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Regency Friday: Maggie May Fashions<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3654,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions\/3654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ChristyEnglish.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}