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| Morning Walking Dresses |
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| Evening Dresses |
The principal dress styles of this period were:
The high-necked dress made of one piece, of transparent material, with a high waist, and usually without a train. Since it had a high neck, fill-ins were not necessary. A fill-in was worn with a dress with a low-rounded decolletage. One style of fill-in worn with this type of dress was bodice de l'enfant, made with a drawstring around the neck to decrease the size of the large opening.
The dress with a square decolletage was worn with a fill-in during the daytime and without in the evening.
The chemise robe was closed with buttons all the way down the front.
The stomacher-front gown might have a train.
The tunic dress was intended mainly for evening wear. As its name implies, it consisted of a tunic hung over the dress but not falling to the entire length of the dress.
The hoop dress of the 1790s continued to be worn but mainly for court occasions.
At this time, the term mantle was used to describe any loose-fitting, shaped outer garment similar to a cape.
A pelisse was originally a short fur-lined or fur-trimmed jacket that was usually worn hanging loose over the left shoulder of hussar light cavalry soldiers, but by this time, when military clothing was often used as inspiration for fashionable ladies' garments, the term was applied to a woman's long, fitted coat with set-in sleeves and the fashionable Empire waist. Although initially, these Regency-era pelisses copied the Hussars' fur and braid, they soon lost these initial associations and, in fact, were often made entirely of silk and without fur at all. They did, however, tend to retain traces of their military inspiration with frog fastenings and braid trim.
Sarsnet is a fine soft silk fabric formerly from Italy.
A habit shirt is a type of shirt worn by women as part of a riding habit.
Tuckers were lace pieces fitted over the bodice and the origin of the phrase best bib and tucker.
By 1800 women were beginning to wear their hair shorter.
The high-necked dress made of one piece, of transparent material, with a high waist, and usually without a train. Since it had a high neck, fill-ins were not necessary. A fill-in was worn with a dress with a low-rounded decolletage. One style of fill-in worn with this type of dress was bodice de l'enfant, made with a drawstring around the neck to decrease the size of the large opening.
The dress with a square decolletage was worn with a fill-in during the daytime and without in the evening.
The chemise robe was closed with buttons all the way down the front.
The stomacher-front gown might have a train.
The tunic dress was intended mainly for evening wear. As its name implies, it consisted of a tunic hung over the dress but not falling to the entire length of the dress.
The hoop dress of the 1790s continued to be worn but mainly for court occasions.
At this time, the term mantle was used to describe any loose-fitting, shaped outer garment similar to a cape.
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| A Pelisse |
Sarsnet is a fine soft silk fabric formerly from Italy.
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| Short Stays |
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| Sarsnet |
Tuckers were lace pieces fitted over the bodice and the origin of the phrase best bib and tucker.
By 1800 women were beginning to wear their hair shorter.
Wigs might still be seen, but they were less widely worn after the introduction of the Hair Powder Tax in 1795.
