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!
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!
After my knitting needle misadventure last spring, I leveled up my accessory game and made myself a selection of historical hat pins!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
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.
This year’s American Girl Doll Halloween costume is a little different. Meet Elmoy, the American Girl Doll Bounty hunter, scourge of Giant Furry Terrors everywhere!
