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Recent Posts

Randle Holme’s The Academy of Armory (1688) and late Seventeenth-century Women’s Dress Terminology
The sixteenth-century Vasquine / Basquine: A corset, farthingale or Kirtle?
Talk: Body-makers and Farthingale-makers in Seventeenth-Century London
Talk: Whalebone and Sixteenth-Century Fashion

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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 latest auction find! I got this for a steal! It was advertised as a carriage parasol from the “early 20th century” but it is hand sewn throughout and uses baleen for the inner ribs, something which does not seem to be common after 1900. The handle can be folded, it is made from wood and some sort of carved Ivory or bone, possibly whale. The canopy is made from two types of silk and in pretty bad condition. Although that isn’t an issue as I mainly bought it for the baleen ribs (which you wouldn’t be able to see if the canopy lining was in good shape) and carved handle, as I’ll be using it in my new project on the use of whaling products in fashionable consumer goods. 🐳

One gore down, four more to go!

I realise I’ve been posting a lot about busks lately, so here’s my quick “Weekend arts and crafts” activity for how to make one yourself.

I recently did a short interview with a journalist from @canberraweekly about busks and garters with intimate inscriptions and embroidery.

My radio debut! Click the link in my bio to hear more about the intimate gifting of busks and garters inscribed with expressions of love and sexual desire in 17th and 18th century England and France.

Some amazing news to wake up to this morning from my editors at Bloomsbury - my book is now in production!! Yay! 🎉

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Highlights

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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