1800-1839 Regency and Georgian Bonnets

The Regency and Georgian Eras 1800-1839 Check out our new Regency and Georgian fashion plate books and 6 new Regency Patterns.
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Claudia
	*a fun Regency hat,* features a puffed crown with or without a brim. The brimless version emulates the beret styles so popular in Regency fashion plates. The brim is available in a split version or full brim from 3-7 inches. The Claudia is available in silk with a linen crown lining brimless from $65 or with a brim from $115. Please email us for details.
Cordelia
	Referred to as the Charlotte Corday or the Directoire bonnet. Appeared in the fashion plates between 1795 and 1810.
Camillia
	A flared brim bonnet with a puffed crown. Appeared in the fashion plates between 1795 and 1810.
Julia
	A flared brim bonnet with a puffed crown. Appeared in the fashion plates between 1800 and 1810.
Zenobia
	A pieced jockey cap. Appeared in the fashion plates between 1800 and 1810. This style works best with short or tightly confined hairstyles.
Dahlia
	a lovely hat for Regency outings, comes in two versions: soft, no buckram or wire with a little bit of flare to the crown, and hard, covered wired buckram form. The Dahlia has two brim variations: a split brim with ribbon ties to hold it together, like the original on Karen Augusta’s website , and a full brim in a variety of depths from 3-7". The soft Dahlia is available from $115, and the covered buckram Dahlia is available from $145. Please email us for details.
Virginia
	1800-1835 a striking Regency style, is the poke bonnet that dominated millinery for more than 25 years. The smaller variations are more appropriate for earlier impressions, while the larger ones are more suited to later impressions.
Mariah
	A very deep brimmed bonnet. Peaked in the fashion plates in 1806.
Lucia
	A puffed crown jockey cap. Appeared in the fashion plates between 1805-1815.

Choosing a Regency or Romantic Bonnet

In The Fashion Pages

Richard Phillips

1800

Costume Parisien

1816

Costume Parisien

1807

Costume Parisien

1821

Costume Parisien

1809

Costume Parisien

1824

Costume Parisien

1811

Ladies Monthly Museum

1827

Original in our Collection

In Practical Millinery

The Regency fashion of flowing high-waisted dresses with little or no skirt support was heavily influenced by classical Greece and Rome. Because of the popularity of sheer white muslin, the period earned the name "The Era of Undress." Millinery presented a wide variety of styles of buckram or paste board brims with gathered crowns, berets, and top hats.

Although it is popular today in Hollywood Regency millinery, very few Regency era bonnets have straw brims with fabric crowns. Very few bonnets using a combination of silk and straw from this era exist in extant collections and fashion plates seldom show a silk straw combination until the 1820's .

Although white muslin continued in popularity, the years between 1810-1819 expanded the color pallet and classic simplicity of the previous ten years. Around 1810, the poke bonnet was introduced which would dominate millinery for the next 25 years.

During the 1820's waistlines began to drop and sleeves began to widen in preparation for the romantic era. The poke bonnet, along with the beret and top hat, continued to dominate millinery fashion.

The poke bonnet continued millinery domination in the 1830's. Early in the thirties, the crown continued the stove pipe shape of the teens and twenties. As the decade progressed, the tip of the crown began to shrink. The crowns of poke bonnets began to assume the shape of upside down flower pots. The crown also began to slide further back on the head eventually making way for the three piece cottage bonnets of the 1840's.

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