Our Lovely New Buttons! c.1765-75 These have been utterly based on some buttons from a Frock Coat in the Snowshill – we wanted to work on a replica and there was totally no point going to all the effort of copying the pattern and the construction techniques […]
Read more →Wahoo…It’s Chalke Valley History Festival time again…. We had so much fun last year, meeting a whole new crowd of reenactors and endlessly talking to the public about 18th century fashion that we’re back again this year! Our underwear research has taken us deeper into men’s costume […]
Read more →Shaping the Body York Castle Museum A few months ago we got an opportunity to work on a couple of hoops for the York Castle Museum. They were looking into opening an exhibition based on the various historical methods of manipulating the body into the fashionable […]
Read more →The I.L.H.F Market At Cressing Temple – Braintree It has been a wonderful weekend. The market was fab and fun, and with lots and lots of great conversations about costumes…mmmm…costumes. Thanks to everyone who came over for a chat and we’re going to include a few dodgy […]
Read more →International Living History Festival 2nd-3rd April We are so looking forward to packing up the car this weekend and heading off to Braintree in Essex. We have a beautiful slot in one of the barns and are eager to unpack our wares and get it set […]
Read more →Bath Fashion Museum Georgian Section of Exhibition – Feb ’16 We just wanted to start listing up some of the gowns we felt interesting in their museum exhibition. We took a quick nip down after one of our study sessions and thought we’d put up some of […]
Read more →A Quick Reminder!!!! We just thought we’d put a quick post up to remind everyone that we are going to be at the National Living History Fayre SOUTH WEST near Bridgewater this weekend. Us, our costume range and our fabrics and extra bits, will all be travelling […]
Read more →Machine Made Pocket Hoops! c.1750-1790 We’ve had these for a while listed up under the Hand Sewn Pocket Hoops but now they have a room of their own – no more twin sharing! What held us back before was we only had images of the Hand sewn […]
Read more →Our Fine Linen in Shift Form! The MMA Shift We thought we’d do a little post to display an item that some of our fabrics have been made up in so that you can get a better idea of what the fabric will do. This is our […]
Read more →Ahoy all Georgian Fans! We’ve just discovered another Dress like a Georgian Day and it’s in a beautiful Georgian Cottage of National Trust persuasion. It’s on the Bank Holiday May Day weekend and well worth an amble if anyone fancies it. It’d also be pleasing to see […]
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