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 | I love the Regency period: beautiful ladies in long, flowing dresses; charming gentlemen in double-breasted cutaway coats and skin-tight trousers; elegant dancing and witty
conversation. Think of Jane Austen's Pride and
Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility.
Besides those empire waist dresses, there's a lot of similarities between the Regency and today. We have wars and dangers. They had Napoleon rampaging about Europe, until he met his Waterloo in the Duke of Wellington. |
| Old ways of doing things were changing rapidly because they were entering the Industrial Revolution with machines being built for the first time to take over some of the hard work people had had to do. Today, old ways of communicating are giving way to IM, the Internet, cell phones, MySpace, and blogs.
The English Regency politically began in 1811, when Prince George IV
was made Regent of England. His father, King George III, had been declared
insane. This is the same King George who was in power during the American
Revolution. However, the culture, style of
dress, and society manners of the Regency period actually began in the
late 1700s and ran until about 1830.
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