I made a red chintz bedgown that I didn’t like very much. I thrifted a curtain panel in a different chintz pattern that toned with it. I used both fabrics as the base of a winter-weather 1770s chintz ensemble and I think that the ensemble is pretty neat!
1790s , Accessories , Blog , non-sewing posts , Playing Dress Up , Regency
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A High-Fashion French Merveilleuse in Summer
To celebrate the beginning of summer weather, here is last year’s summer blowout with the Hemwick Regency Society! For an outdoor concert at the Van Dusen Gardens, I dressed as a high-fashion French Merveilleuse – wearing all of the best late 1790s fashion trends at once!
1750s , 1760s , 18th century , Accessories , Blog , Cloaks and Mantelets , garment construction , tutorial
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Keeping My Ears Warm in Winter – an 18th Century Velvet Hood
I used my grey boiled wool to make an 18th century short cloak, but the short cloak did not have a hood. How would I be keeping my ears warm? In the 18th Century, the answer for a woman would be a separate hood! I had some black cotton velvet in my stash, so I reckoned this would be easy – I would make myself a mid 18th Century velvet hood to go with my Burnley and Trowbridge Short Cloak!
18th century , 19th Century , Accessories , Blog , millinery , non-sewing posts , tutorial
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Historical Hat Pins
After my knitting needle misadventure last spring, I leveled up my accessory game and made myself a selection of historical hat pins!
1780s , 18th century , Accessories , Blog , garment construction , pattern review , tutorial
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The Burgundy Silk Scroop Charlotte Mantle
I am on a mission to make all of the Scroop Mantle patterns – here’s a silk Scroop Charlotte mantle, sewn in in a red figured taffeta!
1790s , Playing Dress Up , Regency
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Winter Weather Wish Fulfillment
The weather outside is absolutely atrocious and i wish i were here instead.
1750s , 1760s , 18th century , Blog , Cloaks and Mantelets , garment construction , pattern review , tutorial
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18th Century Short Cloak
What does one do with just over a yard of grey boiled wool? One hopes that there is JUST enough fabric for an 18th Century Short Cloak, that’s what!
1750s , 1760s , 1780s , 18th century , garment construction , Playing Dress Up , tutorial , underpinnings
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An 18th Century Pleated Petticoat
When it comes to 18th century costuming basics, I’ve talked about bedgowns, but I haven’t yet talked about the garment one wears with a bedgown – the 18th Century pleated petticoat!
1750s , 1760s , 18th century , Accessories , Blog , Cloaks and Mantelets , fabrics , garment construction , pattern review , ruffleruffleruffle
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A Black Lace Mantelet
A black lace mantelet is, foolish, fragile and one of the most pointless accessories in the history of western fashion. Of course I wanted to make one!
1790s , millinery , Playing Dress Up , Regency , tutorial
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High-Crowned Regency Straw Hat
I’m giving my 1790s summer accessories a glow-up. For a promenade with the Hemwick Regency Society, I shaped a new high-crowned Regency straw “Spanish” Hat!