Regency Era Pockets
Reticule or Ridicule - the Regency woman's cute hand purse She was clearly a gentleman’s daughter. The spilled contents of her ridicule included a sandalwood fan, smelling salts, a folded prayer card, two gold guineas, and a handkerchief with the initials C.E.W. picked out unevenly in primrose silk. Alverstone by Beatrice Knight "...When, however, neither kind words nor gestures could prevail on Mansell to accept the cakes, he thrust them into her ridicule and respectfully kissed her fair hands..." Ackermann's Repository. January, 1815 With the shift to flimsy muslin Empire line gowns in the late 18th Century, pockets became [...]
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