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Research Engagement & Impact Survey
Making Historical Dress Network
Did Seventeenth-Century English Women Wear Drawers?
Second Book Announcement: The Women Who Clothed the Stuart Queens

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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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Come for the Bridgerton and corset content, leave with some knowledge about the 18th century whaling industry 🐋🪡

On the home stretch now. Just got some binding to do and then these 18th century maternity stays are finished!

Want to learn more about whaling and fashion?

It was a delight to be invited to the opening of @sovereignhill Centre for Goldrush collections last week!

My article on the dressmakers of Catherine Braganza and Mary II has been published in print in Women’s History Review!

Used the upcoming coronation to talk about my favourite Charles (II) & 17th century memorabilia!@theconversationau

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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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