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

[komadori]

Thanks for sharing! I am a huge fan of the Romantic poets.

That queer Regency romance sounds fun too.

[kestrell]

Apologies, I was conflating two different novels in K. J. Charles Society of Gentlemen series.

The one where a young man who newly inherits his wealth and position and is being tutored on how to dress is actually this book

A Fashionable Indulgence
https://kjcharles.fandom.com/wiki/A_Fashionable_Indulgence

and the romantic interest is a dandy. The book featuring the valet is the final book in the series, and he is a returning character who we have seen has a strong relationship with the man he works for/with all along. Politics plays a large part in this series, and one of the really unusual parings is a book in the middle of the series--I forget the title, except that it has the word "Seditious" in it--and it features an older couple, one of whom is a lod, and the other is a printer of radical pamphlets, and it is *really* hot.