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Photos from the Jane Austen Festival in Mt. Dora, Florida

This past February, I traveled down to Mt. Dora, FL, for their fantastic annual Jane Austen Festival. My lovely friend and fellow costumier, Audrey Russell, and I put on a presentation on Regency fashion the first Friday afternoon of the festival, discussing the shift in women’s (and men’s!) clothing from the 1780s into the 1790s and 1800s.

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