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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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My talk for @melbfashionfestival , part of the Old Treasury Building Melbourne’s Material Histories Seminar series, with Madelyn Shaw & Trish Fitzsimons, is now on YouTube! Join as we ponder the complex turn from natural to synthetic materials in fashion!

Next month I’m giving an online talk at @melbfashionfestival about the history of baleen in fashion, it’s modern substitutes and fashion sustainability! Best of all, it’s free!

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

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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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