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  • Shaping Femininity Online Book Launch
  • Seventeenth-Century Waistcoats for Women: Jacobean Fashions
  • The Life and Times of Theophilus Riley: Citizen, Civil War Conspirator and Body-maker.
  • Shaping Femininity Book Cover and Pre-order!

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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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Video recordings of the materials of early modern fashion conference are available to view on our conference website until 14 November.
#fallforfashion day 21 is “yellow” and what better to show than these yellow bodies or stays featured in my book Shaping Femininity.
#fallforcostume Day 19: pleats. Here’s a whole heap of knife pleats in silk taffeta that I did last year on my 1660s petticoat skirt!
Day 16 of @redthreaded #fallforcostume is tools and techniques. These are my tools for binding together the panels of bodies and stays: waxed linen thread, scissors and binder/fold back clips. The latter is not historically accurate of course but, WOW, they are so useful when it comes to holding the panel together and later when it comes to binding. Highly recommend!
Slightly late for #fallforcostume day 15: green. Here are some images from the Museum of London where I examined this English green silk bodice trimmed with silver bobbin lace, c. 1660s. She is a beauty!
Look what arrived this morning!! My advance author copies of Shaping Femininity. I love them! @bloomsburyfashion have done such an amazing job 😍😍 #shapingfemininity

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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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