Regency Mens Fashion

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Regency Mens Fashion

• 1800-1820

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21st FloorMenswear
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Tailcoats

• Made of wool usually
• Black and navy mostly
• Buttons were brass/pewter
• Long tails
• Cut higher than waistcoats
• Wide M notch lapels

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Waistcoats

• Fancy way of saying vest
• Wool, linen, or silk
• Mostly patterned
• Covered top of tailcoat pants
• Mostly single breasted

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Shirts

• Usually cotton or linen
• Long and loose fitting
• High standing collar
• Pulled on over head through slit
• Mid thigh to knee length
• Undergarment

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Trousers

• Made of wool, linen, or cotton
• High waist-at least hitting the belly button
• Drop front
• Held by suspenders
• Loose fit, although tight down to ankles

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Cravates

• Considered an absolute must
• Long narrow strip of linen or silk
• Wrapped several times around the neck
• Tied into a knot in front
• Some forms of tying were considered inappropriate
  
• for nighttime.

• My neckcloth, of course, forms my principal
  care, For by that we criterions of elegance
  swear And it costs me, each morning, some hours
  of flurry, To make it appear to be tied in a
  hurry.

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Shoes

• Buckles were rare, laces were very common
• Most shoes were black and leather
• Ankle bootees were coming into style, as were
  boots
• Boots were worn high and usually black or brown
  leather

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Accessories

• Gloves
• Canes
• Pocket watches
• Leather wallets
• Watch fobs

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Headwear

• Tall, straight hats with a curled brim by far the
  most popular
• Also in fashion were sailor hats and Daniel Boone
  coonskin caps

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Hair

• Short to medium at the sides and back, long on
  top
• Hair often combed up for height
• Could be short and combed toward the face
• Curly bangs were in fashion
• Nearly all gentlemen were clean shaven
• Sideburns were gaining immense popularity

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Advice From Jane on Mens Fashion

• One man's style must not be the rule of
  another's.
• -Jane Austen