Alice Loxton
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3 Sep
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hundreds.
Exactly.
But things do change and they change quickly.
Chapter 2 Regency Revolution
So in the seventeen nineties and then into the eighteen hundreds and the eighteen tens, we have the Regency period, which is the era of Bridgerton, of pride and prejudice, that sort of thing.
Oh well, I mean, I am a Kieran Knightley fan, but I do think the BBC nineteen ninety-five is the absolute
So we mentioned that until this point, people would have these enormous, heavy, quite structured dresses, so kind of tight, corseted here, and then, you know, by the bust and the waist, but then enormous skirt
I'm trying to
Um and then something really radical happens in the late eighteenth century, which is we have this thing called the empire silhouette.
We'll get to why it's called that later, where it completely changes.
It's tight beneath the bust and then below that point it's it's not tight at all.
Okay, so the material just
freely flows straight to the ground.
And that's what Elizabeth Bennett wears in Pride and Prejudice.
If you can visualize that.
And they often have like little puffy sleeves and they're often made of white kind of cotton material.
Kira Knightley in Pirates Caribbean, which is late eighteenth century.
And then she changes when she's in Pride and
do in films these
Um yes, and there are some important reasons for this.
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