This may be my one Fashion Pink (TM) book

The cover of my new book. It's bright pink with the title in deep red writing. The cover image is a collage of original Regency images of men and women, including portraits and fashion plates.

NEW BOOK COVER REVEAL!!

A Guide To Regency Dress comes out in October-November, depending where you are, published by the marvellous @yalebooks.bsky.social.

A Guide to Regency Dress

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The preorder back for my new book A Guide To Regency Dress. Follow the links in post for the same information.

It's nearly real! A Guide To Regency Dress is now live on the @yalebooks.bsky.social websites.

Available to pre-order in the UK, out 14 October.
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Not yet available to pre-order in the US, out 11 November there

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Update: my copy editor kindly pointed out that I forgot to write an entry for velvet. My favourite fabric 🤦‍♀️

Out in October!

It's a light silk gauze. Definite swoosh potential.

Tbh I'm already worrying about people not finding the specific thing they're looking for in the Guide, but hoping they will be dazzled by what they do find instead 🤣. This is not the fabric you were looking for, but here's a better one, such as tiffany, love, or zephyrine!

The new book A Guide To Regency Dress has so! many! images! I'm nearly done, but keep getting distracted by more juicy details of dress and textiles I want to share. I've found an excellent illustration of the much rarer male Spencer, for example, and can show you what gros de Tours fabric was.

Some new book updates!

It's going to be called A Guide To Regency Dress: From Corsets and Breeches to Bonnets and Muslins.

Out October in the UK and worldwide, November in the US.

It's full of images I've never used in the previous books, and some that have never been published.

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A scalloped edged, triangular design for a gentleman's neck handkerchief featuring stylised leaves.

Took advantage of the email drop off to finally add the most recent batch of #C18th patterns onto my website. There are now 269 originally needlework designs freely available on the Lady's Magazine website: ladysmagazine.omeka.net Rather fond of this gentleman's neck handkerchief...

Happy birthday to Jane Austen!

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It's HEEEEE-EEEERRRRRRREEEE!!!!!!!

The one, the only, the iconic, the emblematic scene of this and all other Austen adaptations; 'the scene that changed everything', as the BBC called it. And we're gonna deep dive (ha!) into it.

A Jane Austen Christmas - Yale University Press London Blog What did Jane Austen wear to church on Christmas Day? Why did clothes make good gifts? Learn about regency fashion – with a festive twist – on our blog.

It's got very chilly here in New York, so in the interests of keeping others feeling cosy, please enjoy this piece on Jane Austen and Christmas I wrote in 2019 when the first book Dress in the Age of Jane Austen was published.

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Thank you!

Thank you Jenny, that means a lot!

I would like to announce that I have a third book on Regency dress in the works. *Not* centred on Jane Austen, this one's a general guide to clothing, hair, jewellery and textiles of Britain c. 1795-1820, out October 2025, again with the wonderful @yalebooks.bsky.social. More details as they arrive!

Jane Austen's Wardrobe Hilary Davidson delves into the clothing of one of the world’s great authors, providing unique and intimate insight into her everyday life and material wor...

Jane Austen's Wardrobe is available to preorder now from Yale University Press, or your preferred book seller.

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