Events Calendar
Our calendar features a wide range of in-person and online programs, including talks, exhibits, tours, discussions, and more. We also highlight events of interest from the broader Jane Austen and Regency world. All event times reflect the organizers’ local time zones. JASNA regional events are additionally listed on the main JASNA web site.
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Who wore what, where, and when
September 26, 2020 @ 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm EDT
Speaker: Alden O’Brien,
DAR Museum Curator of Costumes and Textiles
Americans copied European fashion to different degrees. Fashionable urban elites had the means to imitate the styles of London and Paris, but how were more extreme styles received? Fashion news reached small towns and rural areas, but were women there able and ambitious to follow it closely? What if your religion distrusted the vanity of fashion? How far behind the times, and how dependent on “homespun,” were those on the frontier? Who wore what, where, and when?