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 , 18th century , caps , garment construction , Playing Dress Up , Wrapping Gown
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An 18th Century Short Gown
An 18th Century short-gown is the same sort of garment as a bed gown, except, well… shorter.
Sort of. Mostly. Sometimes.
1750s , 18th century , caps , garment construction , Playing Dress Up , Wrapping Gown
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18th Century Bedgown up a Tree
Here’s a well-dressed woman in her 18th Century bedgown, hanging out at the top of a mangrove tree. As you do.
18th century , caps , pattern review , ruffleruffleruffle
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The Dissipated Grandma Sheep (Another Mrs Sandby Cap)
My first Mrs Sandby Cap was far too respectable – so I sewed another one. With lace. Introducing: the Milkmaid’s Nightmare!
1750s , 18th century , caps , english gown , Playing Dress Up
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Here be Oranges (and a striped 1750s English Gown)
I took my new striped 1750s English gown for a spin, and accessorized it with a basket of oranges and my new Good Wives Linens lappet cap!
1750s , 18th century , caps , pattern review
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A Very Serious Lappet Cap
I love the cap patterns from Good Wives Linens. The mid-18th Century Mrs Sandby Cap Pattern makes a very serious lappet cap indeed!