I’ve talked about 18th Century bedgowns here on You Sew Nice, but I haven’t yet talked about the garment one wears with a bedgown – the 18th Century pleated petticoat! Today the word ‘petticoat’ refers to an undergarment, but in the 18th Century, petticoats were simply the garments you wore on […]
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.
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!
In honor of the annual Spring Fertility festival, here three pairs of 18th Century Pockets! (All of them bright, colorful, vaguely egg-shaped, and perfectly designed for holding your Easter chocolates!)
The glamour beneath the glitz: here’s the reality of what it’s like under the skirt of a pretty pretty princess!
