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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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Tutorials

  • 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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Thanks so much for the shout out in your new video on skirts, hoops and butts @abbyelyn !! 🍑👗
An outtake demonstrating the optical illusion of early bodies. As you can see, my reconstruction of the Von Neuberg bodies with its long busk creates this long sleek body over the top of my otherwise short-waisted torso.
BOOK PROOFS!!! Such an exciting email to wake up to! So happy to be able to give you all a sneak peek of my book 📚
An exciting example of textile recycling at @powerhousemuseum.
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!

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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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