Over the springtime and summertime I engaged in hand-sewing a Regency-style drawstring day dress in a cotton. The project was a sort of ...

I certainly wish I knew her name instead of just her initials, BWS. I know she used to teach, and I know she desires that primary-source his...

At long last, a tutorial showing you how to create a popular 1909 hairstyle, a sort of modified "Grecian" look. As always, plea...

Midsummer sings the song of water, filling wheelbarrows, falling from watering cans, falling in sheets from the sky, falling into the sink t...

Amy of A Day in 1862 found a a receipt for washing clothes in a scrap book and copied it for us. It's titled "Warshing Clothes...

If you watch films set in the Regency era, like the 1995 Sense and Sensibility film, you might get the impression that women wore little pl...

The Huntley Film Archives has quite a large collection of film clips featuring fashions from the Gay Nineties, Edwardian, teens and twenties...

How could that picnic last Saturday be described any better than this? My friend Polly wrote, "It was one of those days that you would ...

What a day. What a wonderful, happy day. Our tea society met at the home of Cassius Clay, White Hall, at 11:00 in the morning for a relaxed ...