It;s Spring in Regency Britain, and magazines are suggesting ladies should wear the lightest of fabrics in charmingly Spring-like colours! Elizabeth looks at fashions from Ackermann’s Repository of the Arts: what was that, and what else did it contain besides fashion?

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