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
Thank you, everybody, for all the wonderful suggestions. I had no idea
that there was so much color in gloves in the Regency. I thing the
suggestions of either fawn colored gloves or a sky blue will be best,
but it will be easier now to find the right ones with a much wider color
palette to
Greetings,
I collect Regency Fashion Plates, so hopefully my input might help. Oddly
enough, the single most popular color depicted is a rather bright sky blue,
even when wearing garments of different colors. I can never keep the number of
buttons and the lengths they represent strait, so I
One sees funky-looking colors of gloves in plates.Of course white kid gloves
tend not to be startlingly white, but they are also very expensive and hard to
clean. So maybe go with a cream, or maybe a grayish-blue?
Ann Wass
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From: humbugfoto1
Grey gloves were fairly popular in the Regency era and wouldn't look too
'matchy-matchy'. Grey, being a neutral, would also be wearable with other colours.
-Kate
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Greetings!
While this is not my era of research I do handle quite a few gloves and know
just enough to find portraits to help others on their journey in finding
gloves suitable for their gorgeous gowns.
What I have found may not help but I hope it will at least point you in a
direction to
