The Regency (1790-1837) (DVD or VHS)
© 1992 Films Media Group, 26 minutes
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This was a period when wars and revolutions were coming thick and fast.
Industrialization, the French Revolution, Romanticism—all these are reflected
in the simplification of dress, the disappearance of lace and ruffles and the
kind of ostentation that bespoke aristocracy. The growth of the English woolen
industry led to the displacement of silk by wool. The same love of Orientalism
and archaism that pervades the literature of the period appears in the Turkish
turbans and Grecian waistlines and hairdos. Among other things, we learn from
this program the origin of the term "guinea pig" and Beau Brummel’s
rules for tying a cravat.
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