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redingotes regency
Fashion History

Regency Redingote

By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.comFrom the mid 1700s British village woman mostly wore hooded cloaks for outdoor wear.  Riding dress used tailoring in coat making.  Even by 1800 few women wore the highly tailored top coats known as the redingote.  At the turn of 1800 the art of tailoring was only just developing into …

1980s hairstyles princess diana
1980s, Fashion History

80s Hairstyles

By Pauline Weston Thomas for Fashion-Era.comPurdey and Princess Diana Hairstyles in the 1980s were mostly large and larger.  Look at any picture of the Princess of Wales and you will see every hairstyle women followed throughout the decade.  The decade began with a continuance of the Purdey cult hair cut.The New Avenger series of 1976-79 …