Jane Austen type nightdress

[Bonsoir]

I've been having a Jane Austen DVD-fest and want a nightdress like the one Marianne wears in the BBC version of Sense and Sensibility - white and gathered around the neck and very ample. Any ideas?

why?

toast normally cater to this sort of mid-life crisis Bohemia

Past Times?

Why not? I quite like dressing up and DD has a fab new white frilly nightie with tiny gold spots from Papillon - I want to be as frilly as she is!

Ample? Is it for Monsieur Bonsoir? Is it for bedroom role play?

not long enough?

I always think Toast is for those who indulge in Virginia Woolf sort of fantasies. Not romantic at all...

yes you are right, all edwardian melodramma and tb

Not white enough, and doesn't have long enough sleeves for that very chilly cottage I don't inhabit.

Past Times used to sell them.

Yep they still do

My friend bought me one years ago and I loved it - until I wore it. My legs got tangled and it was damned uncomfortable.

what about this?

Try Past Times. I have been quite tempted in the past too. In fact, what I really want is a bonnet and a musket to dress like Elizabeth Bennet, zombie slayer.

The Jane Austen Centre in Bath would probably have something. They are online.

And you'd have to starch it to make it authentic.

They are indeed uncomfortable to actually sleep in. Darned pretty though.

Oh no yes!. Much more exciting dressing up clothes to be had than mere nighties

Is it to spice things up in the bedroom department? Or are you homesick for 18th Century England?

Bit of both probably. DP doesn't know his luck - I keep mooning around staring into his eyes and declaring undying love. He's very very happy .

Why don't you buy a wedding dress with 30 foot train and do Dickens' Miss Havisham?

Are you going to get him a frilly shirt too?

I want a dress like this

Oh no, don't like Dickens/thirty foot trains one little bit.

He'd quite suit a frilly shirt - he's big and virile enough to cope with it uncompromisingly! And he's already half-way to the Regency hairstyle with all those sideburns...

I made my own wedding dress from an early 18th century pattern. In periwinkle blue silk. It was very plain and lovely. It had a v slightly scooped neck and flared slowly out from under the bust, slightly puffed long sleeves with very long exposed buttoned cuffs.

I suspect the high neck thing is actually all wrong for nightshirts of Austen's period. The period was v plain and simple. Frills and flounces and high necks are more Victorian I would have thought.

Bonsoir - Yes. My dress was pretty much like the one you linked to, only with long sleeves.