Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians is open until 8 October 2023 at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London.
In the Georgian era, the dress of the royal court took on an exaggerated appearance. Dresses were bigger and wider, hair styles were taller, and jewellery and accessories were overstated and elaborately decorated. These styles were all influenced and enabled by the entertainment, trade and technological developments of the era, not only among the elite but also across wider British society. As courtly fashion started to become more outdated, the upper classes began to look at the styles of the lower classes, who were dressing for the new entertainment venues of the time such as theatres and coffee houses, for inspiration.