*CG* - Regency Day Gown - Helena

In this period, fashionable women's clothing styles were based on the Empire silhouette dresses were closely fitted to the torso just under the bust, falling loosely below. Inspired by neoclassical tastes, the short-waisted dresses sported soft, loose skirts. These 1795–1820 fashions were quite different from the styles prevalent during most of the 18th century and the rest of the 19th century, when women's clothes were generally tight against the torso from the natural waist upwards, and heavily full-skirted below.