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Apr 27, 2020
"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...
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Mar 18, 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...
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Feb 17, 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...
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Jan 22, 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...
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Aug 14, 2019
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...
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Jul 18, 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...
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Jun 27, 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....
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Jun 24, 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...
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Feb 13, 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...
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Nov 16, 2018
"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...
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Aug 20, 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. ...
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Aug 3, 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!...
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May 18, 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...
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Apr 4, 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...
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Jun 30, 2017
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...
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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...
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