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(Her sartorial ideal was the Empress Eugnie.) Keckley dressed her with an elegance befitting her stationand her self-importancebut toned down the flamboyance

Skirt: Maxi length with deep pleats, creating a full, flowing hem that enhances movement

Handkerchief skirt hemline

It is a state of mind made up of many shades, a state of mind produced in old and civilised societies where gaiety has become infrequent or where conventions rule at the price of their subject's boredom...it is the direct result of the endless warfare between respectability and boredom." In Regency London dandyism was a revolt against a different kind of tradition, an expression of distaste for the extravagance and ostentation of the previous generation, and of sympathy with the new mood of democracy