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Did Seventeenth-Century English Women Wear Drawers?
Second Book Announcement: The Women Who Clothed the Stuart Queens
Quilted Petticoats in the Seventeenth Century
Hats, Headwear and Masculinity in Sixteenth-Century Europe

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Elizabeth I Effigy Bodies Reconstruction | Part One: The Pattern & Materials
Dame Filmer Bodies, c. 1630-1650 Reconstruction | Part One: The Pattern & Materials
Rebato Collar, c. 1600-1625 | Part One: Brief History and Materials

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Lovely to receive my copy of “Tokens of Love, Loss and Disrespect, 1700-1850” in the mail today! I helped with some of the descriptions of dress on the tokens in the catalogue! 😊

New blog post: did 17th century English women wear drawers?

Please enjoy my short presentation on why the ‘30s is a cursed decade in western fashion* featuring the awesome resource that is the ‘Fashion History Timeline’ by the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York @fitfashionhistory .

Doing some research for the next book at @ngvmelbourne

📚 I’m beyond excited to finally share that I’ve signed a contract with @bloomsburyfashion @bloomsburypublishing for my next book,

Portrait of a woman, c. 2020.

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Bodies or Stays? Underwear or Outerwear? Seventeenth-century Foundation Garments explained.
Randle Holme’s The Academy of Armory (1688) and late Seventeenth-century Women’s Dress Terminology
Back to Basics: The Smock in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Looking at 1630s English Fashions through Wenceslaus Hollar’s Ornatvs Mvluebris Anglicanus
The tailoring Trade in Seventeenth-Century Oxford – Tales from the Bodleian Archive.
The sixteenth-century Vasquine / Basquine: A corset, farthingale or Kirtle?

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