Style & Society Dressing the Georgians Exhibition at The Queen's Gallery Buckingham Palace

The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, presents a fascinating exhibition about Georgian Fashions. We  how styles developed through the period from the accession of George I to the death of George IV, the period from 1714 to 1830.

What were they wearing in court? What were the common people wearing? The exhibition includes over 200 items such as cartoons, paintings, prints and drawings, many shown together with rare surviving examples of jewellery, accessories and clothing. 

All aspects of Georgian society are explored. Court dress, workers' fashions and  the military come under scrutiny. Fashion extremes put the Georgians in the line of fire from the cartoonists of the day including artists such as Thomas Rowlandson who gave us "The Progress of the Emperor Napoleon" (1808). We see the various stages of the emperor's life shown by his clothing. He starts out as a Corsican peasant in a worn-out brown coat and ends up in the fashionable garb of the 1780s.In some scenes he's wearing the blue military coat of a general in the French army with an enormous bicorne hat, a feather and a sword. His campaigns in Egypt are shown in Turkish dress. In the last picture he wears the imperial mantle which he wore at his coronation in 1804.

A more detailed review of the exhibition can be found  at: Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians


The Progress of the Emperor Napoleon 1808.
Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) 
Image by Frances Spiegel with Permission
from the Royal Collection Trust. All rights reserved.








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