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Is there a difference between a married and a single ladies dress in the Regency Period?
I am about to start doing reenactments about the 1809 period. My character is married and mother of two at this point in time. In all the research I have done I cannot find a guild line for the way the ladies dress after their marriage status changed. Any thoughts? Thanks.
Married women in this period always wore some kind of cap or head covering in the daytime. They would also wear more "sensible" dresses. It depends what your social class is, because it really depends - if you are a poorer or working-class woman, you won't be wearing the fashionable dresses in the books, but would be more likely to wear something that was roughly 10 years out of date, clean and in practical fabrics like sturdy cotton and linen, wool cloaks, but not super-fashionable or flimsy. Aprons would definitely be worn, and everyday dresses would be likely to be quite simple and untrimmed - practical rather than fashionable. Many women did have a nice dress "for best" and Sundays which was more fashionable, and made from the best fabric they could afford. (the fine muslins were very expensive, so firmer cottons were more typical)
If you're middle-class or aristocratic, you would be more likely to wear fashionable clothes. You'd wear very smart caps to indicate you were a married woman now, and your dresses could be richer in colour. If unmarried girls wore colours, they were usually delicate pinks and blues and pastel colours. Outerwear, such as spencers (short jackets) and pelisses (long dress-styled coats), could be in stronger/darker colours. Once they got married, they would be likely to wear more "grown up" clothes that were sensible and ladylike - fashionable silhouettes, tastefully trimmed, but not really frivolous unless you want to be a "goose" as Jane Austen described frivolous/silly women.
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