Persuasion: Austen fashion time

Persuasion: Austen fashion time

 

Persuasion: Austen fashion time

This week, the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia has a fashion that would see my dog ​​- Persuasion: Fashion in Jane Austen's time, the display in the Textiles gallery Myer and May 22 and will continue on November 8th. Best of all, the show is free to the public. The exhibition will feature more than 70 works, most of the museum's collection and examine the period between1770 and 1830. Prints and drawings, decorative arts and paintings, with a focus on women's dress from the 19th century English alongside these fabulous outfits, and major works from other institutions and private collections in Australia will also be included. Many elements of CNG holdings were collected in the 1960s and 70s by collectors Leo and Anne Schofield.
Mode character in the novels of Jane Austen, Lucy Steele and Mrs. Allen, are presented as stupid. "It was not considered appropriate for anyone to talk endlessly about fashion," said Roger Leong, Curator of CNG is the international fashion and textiles. "Characters who speaks length clothing is always the idiot . "However, Jane wrote about the details of the way in his letters to his family, as Leong said:" witty comments and insightful fashion Austen reflects the complex relationships within English society during its life, particularly between different classes and men and women. "
Fashion changed dramatically over the life of Jane Austen. In 1775, the year of his birth, the women wore dresses with corsets constriction, hoops, or panniers. When Jane was in her 20's no-classical influences took over. Women wear were tall, agile, relatively simple and made with a soft cotton cloth or muslin clear. Towards the end of the life of Jane, in 1817, the dresses were again decorated with pleats, ruffles and lace. Waist collapsed, hourglass silhouette even more rigid and silk and satin became fashionable. "The variations in size, compared to the natural waist, then again, were a feature of the time, one of the most dynamic periods in fashion," said Leong. Commissioner also said that our knowledge fashion at the time Jane comes largely from period films. Specifically, admire "costumes designed by Jenny Beavan and John Bright in the direction of Ang Lee and sensitivity, citing the fashion of the 1790s when Austen wrote the novel, instead of 1811, when it became his first published book. "*
While empire dresses were popular for only a short period of time, they seem less cumbersome and restrictive narrowing our modern fashion eyes of Georgian and Victorian eras. For modern lovers, a costume worn by Colin Firth in Pride and Prejudice, 1995, will be presented. (They say it is a white shirt.)