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!
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!
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 , 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!
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!
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!
American Girl doll , Blog , doll costumes , Halloween , Playing Dress Up , toys
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Elmoy, American Girl Doll Bounty Hunter
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!
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.
1790s , Blog , Playing Dress Up , Regency , total chaos , underpinnings , wig
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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!