I’ve seen this style of hat in fashion plates from the end of the 1790s through to about 1810-ish, but there was one particular image from 1809 that i loved – simple and stylish,with a twist of blue ribbon and a feathered plume.. I decided to try it. No instruction, no drawings, just a notion in my head of what I wanted to go. Experimental straw millinery – lets do this!
1790s , 18th century , Blog , Playing Dress Up , Regency
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The 1798 Kate Greenaway Gown
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!
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!