Fashion Accessories

Regency accessories, including jewelry, fans, and purses.

Jewelry

The eye brooch, or lover's eyes, was an unusual variation of the portrait miniature...

Mourning/grief was one of the two categories of sentimental jewelry (the other was love)...

Brisé fans have no leaf, instead consisting only of decorative sticks carved or pierced or painted...

Elegantly pierced mother-of-pearl sticks with guards of cut steel, faceted and polished to resemble diamonds...

Creating a netted or knitted purse was a popular pastime for Regency women...

These tiny, flat coin purses were often kept inside the larger reticule, or hung from a chatelaine...