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Hats, Headwear and Masculinity in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Fortuna and virtù: Embodying Classical Concepts in Renaissance Armour
Shaping Femininity Book Launch Recording
Sittingbourne Bodies Pattern, c. 1630-50

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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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I’m giving a talk next month in country NSW at @wpccdubbo ! If you live in the area and would like to join us for an evening or cocktails and conversation please visit the link in my bio!

One of my favourite photographs of my reconstructed 1660s outfit ... but make it a fresco 🎨 🖼

Just received my copy of Timothy McCall’s new book, ‘Brilliant Bodies: fashioning courtly men in early Renaissance Italy’.

A little outtake of my friend Izzy from a shoot we did a couple of years ago. Edited with the @prequelapp app

Okay so I’m officially addicted to the “canvas” and “Renaissance” filters on @prequelapp app. Shoutout to @couturecourtesan for introducing me to it. Expect a lot of filtered pics incoming 😆

Bents vs synthetic whalebone in a pair of mid-17th century bodies.

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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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