Lou Henry Hoover, 1929 Lou Henry Hoover wore a velvet dress with a zig-zag pattern to Herbert Hoover's inauguration. In May 1929, she became the first first lady to appear in Vogue, Katherine A.S ...

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Similarly, women who aspire to look like Elizabeth Bennet must have the right dress for any occasion. You’ll also need to develop an eye for subtle changes in Regency fashions down the years.

This trend could be spotted everywhere in the Y2K era of fashion, and TV shows and books set in the Regency era have hailed in another period of empire line dresses with short, puffy sleeves.

As well as opting for a Regency-inspired dress (eBay has reported a 205% rise in searches for ‘puff-sleeved wedding dresses’, and interest in ‘empire-waist wedding dresses’ is expected to ...