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"Whatever Shall I Wear?" Review
"Whatever Shall I Wear? A Guide to Assembling a Woman's Basic 18th Century Wardrobe" is exactly what the subtitle says it is - a solid...
Jun 10, 2021
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"Household Sewing with Home Dressmaking" Review
If you spend enough time in online costuming communities, you will inevitably hear about Bertha Banner, author of "Household Sewing with...
May 27, 2021
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"Fashion in Costume: 1200-1980" Review
The curse of selling things at Half Price Books is looking around at the other books while you wait for them to look through your books....
Oct 1, 2020
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"Dress in the Age of Jane Austen" Review
My mother gifted me with a copy of Hilary Davidson's "Dress in the Age of Jane Austen: Regency Fashion" for Christmas last year. I was...
Apr 27, 2020
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"How to Read a Dress" Review
How to Read a Dress: A Guide to Changing Fashion from the 16th to the 20th Century by Lydia Edwards takes readers through 400 years of...
Mar 18, 2020
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"100 Years of Fashion Illustration" Review
For my birthday last spring, my aunt gave me a book called "100 Years of Fashion Illustration" by Cally Blackman. The book looks at...
Feb 17, 2020
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"Regency Women's Dress" Review
One of my Christmas gifts was a copy of "Regency Women's Dress: Techniques and Patterns 1800-1830" by Cassidy Percoco. I've been eyeing...
Jan 22, 2020
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"Put on Thy Beautiful Garments" Review
A month or two ago I was in the midst of a Pinterest research trip, when one of the blogs I was reading mentioned a book I hadn't...
Nov 16, 2018
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Persuasion
I took some time this July to read Jane Austen's Persuasion. A copy came into my care years ago, but I never got around to reading it. ...
Aug 20, 2018
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