I’ve seen this style of hat in fashion plates from the end of the 1790s through to about 1810-ish, but there was one particular image from 1809 that i loved – simple and stylish,with a twist of blue ribbon and a feathered plume.. I decided to try it. No instruction, no drawings, just a notion in my head of what I wanted to go. Experimental straw millinery – lets do this!
1790s , 18th century , Blog , Playing Dress Up , Regency
Posted on:
The 1798 Kate Greenaway Gown
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!
1790s , 18th century , fabrics , garment construction , Regency , total chaos
Posted on:
Racing Stripes for a 1790s Round Gown
This gown started out as a wearable mockup for an 1807 bib-front gown and became a 1798 regency round gown with racing stripes!
1790s , Accessories , Blog , non-sewing posts , Playing Dress Up , Regency
Posted on:
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
Posted on:
Winter Weather Wish Fulfillment
The weather outside is absolutely atrocious and i wish i were here instead.
1790s , millinery , Playing Dress Up , Regency , tutorial
Posted on:
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!
Accessories , Blog , garment construction , Regency , tutorial
Posted on:
Tutorial: A Raspberry Regency Reticule
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!
19th Century , Accessories , Halloween , Hat , hatmaking , millinery , Regency
Posted on:
A Regency Riding Hat
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 […]
Blog , fabrics , garment construction , Regency , stays , total chaos , underpinnings
Posted on:
The Regency Ribbon Stays of WHOOPS.
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.
1790s , 18th century , Accessories , garment construction , pattern review , Regency , ruffleruffleruffle , tutorial
Posted on:
A Pair of 1790s Chemisettes
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!