Hello Jeanne,
A little advice from my experience.
A good place to start to get ideas for the Regency era is:
http://www.songsmyth.com/costumerscompanion.html
The US equivalent for the "Regency period" of costume is called the
"Federal
period" and it can be difficult to find ideas about this costume period.
Most of the pictures I've seen have been similar in style but not as fancy
in fabric.
I would try to find out what the event entails. If it involves being out
on
a battlefield then you probably don't want to wear a silk dress. If there
is
a ball, then you'd definitely want to wear something more formal. Once you
know what kind of event it is, I'd start getting ideas by peeking at some
1812 reenactment websites.
example:
http://www.mississinewa1812.com/photos.htm
It looks to me like they tend towards a more colonial look in the women's
clothing, but I only peeked.
The Greater San Francisco Bay Area Costumer's Guild has lots of reviews of
different patterns both for authenticity and ease of constructing.
http://www.gbacg.org/Patterns/index.html
I hope some of this babble helps.
Good Luck and have fun with it!
Jennifer Juniper
"Jeanne Burton" <wench0398@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>I recently met a guy who does war of 1812 reenactment, and we were
> discussing doing an event or two together. I know NOTHING about this
> era...I do 1500's Spain, and by then I've been dead for a couple
> hundred years. <G> I also know nothing about how European fabrics and
> styles migrated to the Ohio Valley - should I be looking at 1808-1809
> and figuring that it took 4 or 5 years to get styles that far into the
> "wilderness", or were people more in touch with Europe than that?
> I also really have no idea on how picky reenactors of this era are - I
> belong to the SCA, where a "reasonable attempt" is good enough for
> many...though not for me. I'm a bit of a snob for myself when it comes
> to costuming - anything worth doing is worth doing well, and as
> correctly as possible, isn't it?
>
> There's been no mention of class at this point..I think that's up to
> me. He very kindly gave me 4 yards of a beautiful lightweight
> jacquarded silk and a regency pattern by Sense and Sensibility...so I
> have that to start out with, though if there's something better,
> please let me know!
> (Silk and patterns are MUCH better gifts than flowers, IMO, as well!)
>
> Thanks in advance -
>
> Jeanne
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