I wore my new 1798 Kate Greenaway gown with its green racing stripes to a regency picnic. The regency picnic was themed, rather than strictly historical, so I could play around with my styling,, and after everything that gown had put me through, I reckoned I’d earned it!
1790s , 18th century , fabrics , garment construction , Regency , total chaos
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Racing Stripes for a 1790s Round Gown
This gown started out as a wearable mockup for an 1807 bib-front gown and became a 1798 regency round gown with racing stripes!
1770s , 18th century , Accessories , caps , Cloaks and Mantelets , fabrics , garment construction , Playing Dress Up , Wrapping Gown
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A 1770s Chintz Ensemble: (the Redemption of the Red Tomato)
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!
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!
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!
18th century , fabrics , Halloween , Playing Dress Up , wig
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A Witchy Wench-y Halloween
When life gives you dinosaur bone printed sheets and orange Ikea duvet covers, you make a witchy, wench-y take on 18th Century Pastoral Fashion!