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Regency Fashion History 1800-1825 | Beautiful Pictures Empire Line Dresses Regency Fashion History1800-1825 Costume History This page is about Empire dress and its influence on C19th Regency Fashion. Using fashion plate imagery, the page follows the changes in the female fashion silhouette from the late 1790s to 1825. The bulk of this epoch covers the era of fashionable Regency Dress, an era beloved by Jane Austen and costume re-enactment fans. Regency accessories and Romantic fashions are on their own pages. French Influence on Early C19th Fashion Bonaparte's Influence on Fashion 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned Emperor in 1804 and was keen to make France a leader of fashion and innovator of design and craft skills. To make women buy more material he forbade them to wear the same dress more than once to court. Bonaparte was following a long tradition of promoting the French economy through fashion. Above Left - Josephine in Full Regalia. You can read more about how Louis XIV promoted fashion in an earlier era when he sent fashion dolls to European courts.