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Crowley's Regency clothing: trousers

(This post has been updated Sept 19, 2024)

A large number of writer woman-hours were devoted to researching Crowley's and Aziraphale's clothes. (Why? You'll find out in mostly chapters 5 & 6. Update: okay, and 7....)

Over his left hip there, his buttons all line up nicely- the decorative button on his tailcoat, red double-breasted waistcoat, and narrow fall trousers all in one line. The same is true on the right side. (YES that's why there is a closeup picture of Crowley's trousers, and for absolutely no other reason, why would you even ask that?)

Crowley's trousers in S2:E3 minisode "The Resurrectionist" are called "narrow fall", as in the right side of the above illustration. (Aziraphale's appear to be the wide fall variety - those on the left of the illustration - from what I can tell.)

This is kinda important for Stunning View readers (cough). The below pic shows how the trousers fastened with the fall flap down.

From the Good Omens promo pics, it looks like Crowley's trousers have 5 or so buttons on each side of the flap instead of the single one shown above. And we never see but he'd presumably have some buttons beneath that holding the waistband together in the middle like the row of 5 in the above photo.

(But in Stunning View we're going to assume there are fewer buttons in the middle than that pic. It's creative license, shut up.)

In case you're curious, I didn't just take a lazy out by calling what they wear on their legs "trousers". Hours of research went into that conclusion. (I got *this* close to going with breeches, but was dissuaded by various evidence.) But the time wasn't all wasted, I did get to add two historically accurate words to one particular chapter: "narrow fall". *WINK*

Illustration source:

Regency Men's Clothing; pants, breeches, pantaloons, oh my!

Any well-heeled gentleman knows the importance of being well-turned out, if he hopes to catch the ladies' eyes, or even be accepted among t

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Crowley's Regency Clothing: Waistcoat

Stunning View!

CROWLEY'S RED WAISTCOAT MAKES ME FERAL. And it took many writer woman-hours to figure out it even is a waistcoat. A supposedly official source I found called it a corset. It's not (though men from this time period *did* wear corsets sometimes - but under all these other layers); it wouldn't be visible. The bottom right picture of David BTS makes it very clear as a waistcoat since you can see his shirt sleeves and the black panel of material on the back of it.

It's so overlapping/ crazy looking peaking out between the lapels of his tailcoat! And that's largely because it's double breasted, and has BIG notched lapels (see bottom 2 pics especially).

Tiny Laudaddy shows off the full front of the waistcoat really well!

I especially love how the costume designers put it together so there's a little border of red peeking out below the tailcoat. 🔥

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Crowley's & Aziraphale's Regency Clothing: Shirts

Researching shirts - the base under all those delicious layers- for umm, science & reasons (cough), was rather important for my upcoming 1827 Laudaddy fic!

(Spoiler: GO BTS and Casanova pics included below.)

The shirts are billowy around the body, have frills at the cuffs, and the collar can go all the way to the jaw if starched (our guys wear them folded down so it's just halfway up the neck).

(top left) David Tennant BTS gives the best view of the front and collar of his black shirt. (top right) BTS with Michael Sheen shows Aziraphale's white shirt under/behind the cravat.

(bottom left) BTS David shirt and waistcoat only! Good view of the collar and sleeves. (This pic disproved a supposedly official costumer post calling the red thing being a corset.)

The collar/neckline goes down to roughly below the sternum, then the shirt had to go on/off by pulling over the head. (You can write that they miracle it off, but I think it's more fun the slow/ human way. 😉)

The photos from Casanova do a good job showing what the neckline would be like and the frilly cuffs, such as where it sticks out from the end of his coat on the right. And then.....

"More murders, I'll drink to that!" This still of Crowley shows off the frilly cuffs at his wrist really well. (And his waistcoat, but that's for next time!)

Sources:

A Primer on Regency Era Men's Fashion: more upper class than working class, but this post covers typical men's garments seen in Regency Roma

Susan/Miranda, stepping up to the podium to make an introduction.... Sometimes here at WordWenches, we have historical experts (like Dr. Jos