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!
The weather outside is absolutely atrocious and i wish i were here instead.
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!
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!
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 […]
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.
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!
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.
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!
No Halloween shall be complete without my favorite antique October accessory – here’s to Sofia and her laudanum. Happy Halloween!
