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  • Top 5 Books for Making 17th-Century Dress – New YouTube Video!
  • Making a 1650s Bodice and Gown
  • Research Engagement & Impact Survey
  • Making Historical Dress Network

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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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  • 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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Shaping Femininity makes a great Christmas present (I’m biased lol) and it’s currently 30% off until 10 December.* Lots of other great Fashion History titles from Bloomsbury are also available in the sale too!
So I did the thing and took the plunge to make a YouTube channel.
Received my contributor copy of Everyday Fashion today @bloomsburyfashion . It is edited by and includes chapters from all my favourite dress people like @bkb23 @jadehalbert @liztregenza @luciewhitmorecurator @fourredshoes @vanessaljones_ @rebeccaunsworth_ @dressing.history
And a shot of the front of my 1650s gown…
This beautiful and rare pair of pink silk bodies / bodice with gilt braid just sold over the past week. These likely date to the period 1650-80.
Beetlejuice but make it 18th century. Happy Halloween 🎃

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Shaping Femininity makes a great Christmas present (I’m biased lol) and it’s currently 30% off until 10 December.* Lots of other great Fashion History titles from Bloomsbury are also available in the sale too! So I did the thing and took the plunge to make a YouTube channel. Received my contributor copy of Everyday Fashion today @bloomsburyfashion . It is edited by and includes chapters from all my favourite dress people like @bkb23 @jadehalbert @liztregenza @luciewhitmorecurator @fourredshoes @vanessaljones_ @rebeccaunsworth_ @dressing.history And a shot of the front of my 1650s gown… This beautiful and rare pair of pink silk bodies / bodice with gilt braid just sold over the past week. These likely date to the period 1650-80.