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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Just A Reminder to Put Your Best Foot Forward: You Don't Know Who Might be Watching

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Portrait of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire , by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons "...Hetty and I took a w...
Friday, November 25, 2011

1790s Convertible Spencer: A Collar Construction Issue

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Our poor little Metropolitan Museum "body" may have been the salvagey product of, let's be honest, not the finest of seamstr...
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Sunday, November 20, 2011

Spencers and "Bodies": the German Luxus und der Moden Viewpoint

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Plate 10. Luxus und der Moden. April 1796 . 1790s "bodies", those sort of spencer-like, jacket-like sleeveless items I...
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1790s Convertible Spencer: Examining Extant Articles, Part 2

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I've spent a little while peering nearsightedly at the Met's "spencer jacket", and my peregrinations along the seam- an...
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Wednesday, November 09, 2011

1790s Convertible Spencer: Examining Extant Articles

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Late 18th century spencer/jacket from the Met. 1970.281.1 Convertible spencer research time! The first step, a look at originals o...
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Uh-Oh, the DREAM DRESS

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I know from following the blogs of online acquaintances that many of us have at one time or another fallen, plump, in pit-deep infatuatio...
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Friday, November 04, 2011

A Real, Extant 1790s Cloak

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My cloak. Remember that hugely long voile cloak I made for this past summer's Jane Austen Festival? The kind that's pictured o...
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Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Inside a Story: The Eighteenth Century Market Fair at Locust Grove

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 Autumn playsThree Graces with a little girl from The Kentucky History Club "We're inside a story, Mama," Noah remarke...
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