Our snowdrops Blooming on the eastward-facing front of our house. Blooming now, when they should wait a few more weeks. No snow this y...

London and Paris Fashions , May 1799 The sleeveless sort of spencer thingie was known, as mentioned in previous posts, by such names as...

The shape. Last fall I decided I needed a new spencer. Do you recall this series of posts ? At the end, with your help, I decided on a ...

If I were to make a Titanic tea dress, this might be it. This is a House of Drécoll dress, circa 1912, from The Metropolitan Museum of Art...

From my collection: a damaged teens-era lingerie dress with bretelles and interior belt. If you've been living under a rock, you ...

In the Episcopalian world, the Christmas season lasts 12 days and ends with Epiphany, also called Twelfth Night, which celebrates the vis...

After the Christmas Eve Service, after settling down for the night, after Christmas morning's excitement at the foot of the tree,...

For those of you for whom messing with teeniney, wee bits of beadlike wiggly wire, minute spangles, and small motifs stresses you out, read...

Given how little time and funds I have to sew, I am learning to make what I have stretch in a lot of ways...a method popular "back the...

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

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

Plate 10. Luxus und der Moden. April 1796 . 1790s "bodies", those sort of spencer-like, jacket-like sleeveless items I...