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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!
Randle Holme’s The Academy of Armory (1688) and late Seventeenth-century Women’s Dress Terminology

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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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New blog post on Jacobean waistcoats is up! This one has been a while (on and off) in the making!

Did anyone who is subscribed the @bloomsburyfashion mailing list spot Shaping Femininity in the new catalogue?

The Materials of Early Modern Fashion conference programme is now online! This online event is organised by Rebecca Unsworth and myself, hosted by The Sartorial Society.

Picture sent to me by my awesome research assistant in London. Look at the ribbons around these royal household bills from the 1630s 😍😍

Previews of Shaping Femininity are now up on the Bloomsbury website!!

My article on 17th-century body-makers & farthingale-makers in the LDN Drapers’ & Clothworkers’ Companies is now published online in Textile History! I’m really proud of this article - SO much archival and quantitative research went into it!

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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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