Byron: The Clothing of a Regency Poet

[kestrell]

I'm currently attempting to answer the question of whether Byron always walked with a cane and, in the process, came across this amazing article which not only includes detailed descriptions of the corrective boot Byron wore, but detailed descriptions of various clothing he wore during different periods of his life. The article also includes various fascinating resources on men's Regency clothing, which is definitely one of my obsessions (am I the only one who thinks waistcoats are sexy? And did anyone else read the K. J. Charles queer Regency romance involving the valet, and all the descriptions of clothing?)
https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/cost.2021.0200

Comments

[kestrell]

Did you read the article? It mentions Byron's wedding waistcoat (since I have my screen reader program and my Alexa set to UK English they actually pronounce that word "westcot"), which was supposedly a secondhand one of one of the King George's, and the floral embroidered skirts were cut off and used to decorate the vest, although the sewing did not seem to be of the finest. Good to know not everyone from a previous centurey was automatically an amazing seamstress.

[cvirtue]

I did not read the article; I am a bad person. :)

[kestrell]

You are not a bad person for not reading an article that is full of my red kryptonite: I only asked because I wanted to point out teh nifty secondhand clothing bit.