Greetings! While this is not my era of research I do handle quite a few gloves and know just enough to find portraits to help others on their journey in finding gloves suitable for their gorgeous gowns.
What I have found may not help but I hope it will at least point you in a direction to experiment on a color. The portraits that I have seen of ladies in black gowns that are not of a mourning nature wear either fawn colored full gloves or skin toned lace fingerless gloves. What you may want to do is take a few fabrics of the colors you think may work and lay then with the gown next to your arm and photograph them. This will be your test if the color will not only look proper but if it will go with your skin tone as well. The quickest place currently for you to find portraits of ladies in this era wearing black with gloves is actually Pinterest. From there you can search out the images at their source or in your books for better looks at the hands. :) I hope this helps. :) Franchesca -----Original Message----- From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On Behalf Of humbugfo...@att.net Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2014 1:36 PM To: h-costume@mail.indra.com Subject: [h-cost] Regency era evening gloves I am making a Regency evening gown for a friend. It consists of a black lace overdress with a slate blue lining. I'm uncertain as to what color gloves should be worn with this color ensemble/ I think white gloves against the black and slate blue would look garish, and black gloves would look too much like mourning wear, which it is not. What would they have worn in Regency times? Thanks, Julie _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
