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Shaping Femininity Book Launch Recording
Sittingbourne Bodies Pattern, c. 1630-50
Seventeenth-Century Waistcoats for Women: Jacobean Fashions
The Life and Times of Theophilus Riley: Citizen, Civil War Conspirator and Body-maker.

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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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Back detail of my reconstructed 1650s bodice. I vlogged the making of this - see my story highlights!

A new year, a new podcast! It was great to chat with @shakeuphistory about court fashions, sprezzatura and the making of early modern dress. Check out the podcast via the link in my bio!

Another podcast! This time I chatted with Dr Gaby Storey from History: the journal of the Historical Association for their new books podcast series.

Success! It’s been a bit of trial and error but I made my first farthingale hoop from bents picked from my parent’s farm. Only 15 more to go...

A year later and I’m back on the farm and back to my bents shenanigans!! Now that they are all dried out I’m going to put them to use in a farthingale (or farthingales I should say!). If you missed my process of harvesting these see my pinned story post.

Think boned foundation garments like bodies (stays) were ill-suited to pregnancy? Think again!

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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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