Hilary Davidson   Dress in the Age of Jane Austen
Channel: ChawtonHouse
Date: 2020-05-17

Join fashion historian Hilary Davidson as she explores Regency dress, clothing, fashion and sewing through the lens of Jane Austen’s life and writings. Hilary’s beautiful book Dress in the Age of Jane Austen (Yale University Press, 2020) focuses on the long Regency between the years 1795 and 1825, a period with accelerated change which saw Britain’s turbulent entry into the modern age, and clothing reflected these transformations. Hilary uses Jane Austen’s famously observant fictional writings, as well as her letters, as  the entry point for examining the Regency age’s rich complexity of fashion, dress, and textiles for men and women in their contemporary contexts.

Buy the book: https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300218725/dress-age-jane-austen

Hilary’s talk will be followed by a Twitter Q&A.

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Hilary Davidson
Hilary Davidson is a dress, textile and fashion historian and curator. Her work encompasses making and knowing, things and theory, with an extraordinary understanding of how historic clothing objects come to be and how they function in culture.

Hilary is equally skilled in analysing historical and archaeological material culture artefacts; presenting engaging, fascinating talks to diverse audiences; and producing influential academic research.

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