This gown started out as a wearable mockup for an 1807 bib-front gown and became a 1798 regency round gown with racing stripes!
1790s , 18th century , fabrics , garment construction , Regency , total chaos
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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!
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.
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!
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Tutorial: A Raspberry Regency Reticule
When you’ve got an arms-length-long list of projects that all have deadlines, the only thing to do is start another project quick. So here’s a tutorial for a raspberry regency reticule!
19th Century , Accessories , Halloween , Hat , hatmaking , millinery , Regency
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A Regency Riding Hat
For a little touch of the funébre for this Halloween season, I made myself a sepulchral woman’s regency riding hat. In early October I scored a “Halloween bowler hat” at a local party store. It was on “pre-season pre-clearance sale” (Do they just make these things up now?!) and I […]
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The Regency Ribbon Stays of WHOOPS.
Exhibit A for what happens when one makes a new pair of regency short stays right when one is coming down with a flu and is taking lots of cold-and-flu medication. You might get what I got: a pair of regency RIBBON stays.
1790s , 18th century , Accessories , garment construction , pattern review , Regency , ruffleruffleruffle , tutorial
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A Pair of 1790s Chemisettes
One long piece of white lace trim with a moth-nibbled middle makes… two short pieces of white lace trim! Here’s a tutorial for a pair of 1790s chemisettes – one with ruffles down the front and one without, suitable for any early regency sartorial vibe!
millinery , Playing Dress Up , Regency
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Spring Picnic with the Hemwick Regency Society
At the Hemwick Regency Society picnic, i learned two things – the first, that croquet is surprisingly intense for a laid-back lawn game, and the second – that i am really really bad at it.
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A Regency Card Party in Virginia
My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen! I had been visiting with a Miss W– (lately removed to Virginia from the newly declared Republic of Chile) and together we attended a small – and very select – card party!