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  • Research Engagement & Impact Survey
  • Making Historical Dress Network
  • Did Seventeenth-Century English Women Wear Drawers?
  • Second Book Announcement: The Women Who Clothed the Stuart Queens

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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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Come for the Bridgerton and corset content, leave with some knowledge about the 18th century whaling industry 🐋🪡
On the home stretch now. Just got some binding to do and then these 18th century maternity stays are finished!
Want to learn more about whaling and fashion?
It was a delight to be invited to the opening of @sovereignhill Centre for Goldrush collections last week!
My article on the dressmakers of Catherine Braganza and Mary II has been published in print in Women’s History Review!
Used the upcoming coronation to talk about my favourite Charles (II) & 17th century memorabilia!@theconversationau

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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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Come for the Bridgerton and corset content, leave with some knowledge about the 18th century whaling industry 🐋🪡 On the home stretch now. Just got some binding to do and then these 18th century maternity stays are finished! Want to learn more about whaling and fashion? It was a delight to be invited to the opening of @sovereignhill Centre for Goldrush collections last week! My article on the dressmakers of Catherine Braganza and Mary II has been published in print in Women’s History Review! Used the upcoming coronation to talk about my favourite Charles (II) & 17th century memorabilia!@theconversationau I’ve decided to finally use this satin fabric that I’ve been hoarding for nearly 10 years to make a 1630s gown, using the pattern taken of a bodice at the V&A. Thinking about my sewing to-do list. I haven’t done much sewing in the past year as I’ve been so overwhelmed with work during the week and socialising on the weekends (was it just me, or was 2022 the year of your social life catching up on the previously 2 years of pandemic?). Delighted to give a talk today at @dundullimal @nationaltrustnsw on the history of undergarments (c. 14th-20th century) for their fundraiser and exhibition “The Shape of the Vintage Bride”.