Candice's Events Calendar

Saturday, February 11, 2023

Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen

Presented by: Jane Austen Fest Mount Dora, FL

Time TBD

Using fashion prints from her collection, Candice will provide an overview of the types of clothing worn during the time of Jane Austen. Candice will explore fashions for various occasions or activities, including day wear and evening wear. Terms used during the period — such as undress, half dress and full dress — will be explained and illustrated with prints. Popular types of outerwear will also be showcased, including pelisses, spencers, and mantles.. The general evolution of style will also be discussed, including changing waistlines, hemlines, and bonnets.

Candice’s PowerPoint presentation uses lots of beautiful fashion prints from the ladies’ magazines of the period. She will also have on hand examples of individual issues of some of those magazines.

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Saturday, June 10, 2023

Love and Death: Sentimental Jewelry in the Time of Jane Austen

Presented by: JASNA-Minnesota

10:00am CST - 11:30am CST

The ordinary people of Jane Austen’s time often wore a sentimental type of jewelry, which was accessible and inexpensive. The sentiment of such jewelry fell into two categories: the sentiment of love and the sentiment of death. In this presentation, Candice will explore both types, including symbols and iconography of mourning and of romance, all of which would have been well understood by people of the time.

Candice’s Powerpoint presentation will include lots of detailed images of mourning jewelry and love tokens from museums, including a mourning brooch with a lock of Jane Austen’s hair from the Jane Austen’s House Museum, as well as many examples from her own collection, including lover’s eyes, such as the one shown here. Items from her collection will be on display for attendees to examine.

Event location and price to be determined. Check back closer to the event for details.

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