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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
"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
"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
"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
Regency Chemise (3.0)
The next step in my Regency sewing adventure (and the thing that should have been first) - a chemise! Regency chemises are fairly simple...
Aug 14, 2019
1920s Combinations in Lilac
I spent the first week or two of June re-watching Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries on Netflix (which I HIGHLY recommend) and that put me on...
Jul 18, 2019
Regency "Portrait" Shawl
First of all - I have no idea if "portrait shawls" are a real thing, historically. I'd even go so far as to say that I doubt they exist....
Jun 27, 2019
Embroidered Regency Reticule
A year or so ago, on a trip to JoAnn Fabrics, I stumbled upon some nice fabric in the softest classic-Disney-Cinerella blue. The fabric...
Jun 24, 2019
The Good, The Bad, The Short Stays
I started my Regency fashion journey back in the summer of 2017 and I… have not made it very far. All I have right now are a chemise...
Feb 13, 2019
"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 15, 2018
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
Where has the time gone?
Except for minor alterations on my sister's dress and sewing the patches onto my denim jacket, I haven't done ANY sewing this summer!...
Aug 3, 2018
Regency Wardrobe - Selecting Fabric
This first week of summer break hasn't been the non-stop sewing week I had planned, but that's okay! In the meantime, I've been looking...
May 18, 2018
Regency Wardrobe - Part 1b - Starting Over
As much as I hate being away from home 8 months out of the year and not being able to sew, it does have the upside of giving me plenty of...
Apr 4, 2018
Regency Wardrobe - Part 2 - Planning Underthings
Ah. Underthings. My Regency wardrobe requires three: - a chemise - short stays - a bodiced petticoat The chemise will be first, as it...
Jun 30, 2017
Starting my Regency Wardrobe - Part 1
I recently finished a book that was given to me by a coworker, and that book has thrown me back into a Regency mood. A great deal of...
Jun 30, 2017
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