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Quilted Petticoats in the Seventeenth Century
Hats, Headwear and Masculinity in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Fortuna and virtù: Embodying Classical Concepts in Renaissance Armour
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Details from a hand-painted 18th century gauze fan at @centreforfashion

Thrilled that Shaping Femininity came highly commended in the Society for Renaissance Studies U.K. Biannual book prize!!

Quilted petticoats. Were they a thing in the 17th century? Yes!

This bust line!! The feeling of wearing these was so different to my usual 17th century bodies/stays. The wide curved bust line really scooped up the chest as I was laced in.

Getting there. It’s interesting making 18th century stays when most of your experience is in 17th century bodies/stays. 18th century is definitely more complex in terms of boning and layers, but thankfully uses most of the same sewing techniques.

Finally finished hand sewing the boning channels on an 18th-century stay reconstruction I’m working on with @dressesbodieshistories !!

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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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