Daisy Edgar-Jones Rewrites the Regency Dress Code

Daisy Edgar-Jones is bringing method dressing Down Under.

Over the course of her globe-spanning Sense and Sensibility press tour, the actor and her stylist, Dani Michelle, have put their stamp on Austen-inspired dressing. “We’ve tried to thread every look back to her character and the time period, searching for corsetry, lace, puffed silks, florals and brocade,” Edgar-Jones told British Vogue at the film’s London premiere.

While the story is set in the early Regency Era, Edgar-Jones and Michelle aren’t wedded to the fashions of the period (empire waists, flowing silhouettes, open necklines); rather, letting them loosely inform the actor’s red carpetRed CarpetThe ceremonial walkway at premieres, award shows, and galas where public figures pose for photographers in their most carefully chosen looks. Red-carpet fashion launches trends, fuels designer visibility, and generatesGo to Red Carpet Glossary looks.

Her most recent look does just that. For the Sydney premiere, Edgar-Jones wore a sheer nude Miu Miu gown embroidered with clusters of silver sequins. Over the dress, she wore a loosely tied corset, also highly embellished. While Sense and Sensibility doesn’t exactly feature naked dressing, Edgar-Jones’s corsetry was more in line with the period: as opposed to the waist-snatching Victorian look, women of the Regency Era wore short stays with looser ties underneath their flowing, Grecian-inspired dresses.

Portrait of Gertrud Hage, née Heitmann, 1798-1801, by Jens Juel. Heritage Images/Getty Images

In her contemporary, glamorous take on Regency fashion, Daisy Edgar-Jones reminds us what method dressing should be: rather than feel confined to the period’s guardrails, she lets a loose inspiration guide the way.

This article was originally published on Vogue.com.

Hannah Jackson

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Hannah Jackson is a fashion writer at Vogue. Prior to working full-time with the publication, she previously did freelance writing and was a social media manager at TheLi.st. Her work has been published in ELLE, Architectural Digest, The Cut/New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, W Magazine, Cosmopolitan, NYLON, InStyle, Bustle, and more. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from UC Santa Barbara where she studied political science. She also has a Master of Science degree from Northwestern University where she studied journalism along with a specialization in magazines.

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