Julie, You did not say whether your ensemble was for an evening dance event or not. My particular interest is clothing & accessories suitable for dance. In this specific case, I have over 100 period images of ball gowns depicted with white gloves to the elbow or higher. There is exactly 1 image that I can find which is non-white. Many other images show the lady in her gown without gloves at all. Some images are tiny and the detail might have been omitted for clarity. Some images are for instruction purposes where showing gloves might obscure the pose of the hand. Still other images are fashion plates where the lady is often in the last stages of dressing so might not yet have put on her gloves. If you're not dancing, then I have no useful info for you, except that the era was crazy for gloves. You could hunt up the Beau Brummel piece on correct gloves for gentlemen, but he was a bit, um, excessive, shall we say? --cin Cynthia Barnes cinbar...@gmail.com
On Sun, Jul 6, 2014 at 1:35 PM, <humbugfo...@att.net> wrote: > I am making a Regency evening gown for a friend. It consists of a black lace > overdress with a slate blue lining. I'm uncertain as to what color gloves > should be worn with this color ensemble/ I think white gloves against the > black and slate blue would look garish, and black gloves would look too much > like mourning wear, which it is not. What would they have worn in Regency > times? > > Thanks, > Julie > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
