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Recent Posts

  • The Life and Times of Theophilus Riley: Citizen, Civil War Conspirator and Body-maker.
  • Shaping Femininity Book Cover and Pre-order!
  • 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?

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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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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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