Today we celebrate 250 years of Jane Austen ✨
Her stories have shaped how we imagine the world of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and through countless film and TV adaptations, her name has become inseparable from the neoclassical style of the era.
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Evening dress, ca. 1810, English, red chenille embroidered net
Wedding dress, muslin embroidered with cotton, England, ca. 1807
La Belle Assemblée Fashionable Spring Dresses. June 1 1808
Man's court suit, English, 1810-1820.
