This is a bit of a scrap book of some of the images, issues and interesting info (all the i’s) we’ve found as we’ve studied eighteenth century costume.
To access and read the following posts please click on the ‘costume research’ link or ‘news’ link on each post. For some reason not all the posts instantly take you to them an you often have to click this extra bit – we’re trying to get this sorted!!!
The Daily Mail History Festival Come and find us – we have a stall in one of the largest all-out History Celebration Festivals in the U.K – And it’s a Two Week Countdown! We’re going to be displaying at the market for the first time a new […]
Read more →Caraco and Petticoat: At The Los Angeles Count Museum of Art (LACMA) We were just having a quick click through our 1770’s folder, doing some research on a dress to study at the V&A when we whizzed passed this little beauty. Dated c.1770’s, this light and […]
Read more →The Stomacher-Style Stays Debate: We think it’s become clear that this topic needs more in-depth research. So, please consider this little post as the new beginnings of our research! There seems to be two views on whether the decorated-front Stays that we find in our museums […]
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Berrington Hall Having had a study session booked to see some of the Snowshill Collection’s Stays, we decided to go a day early to have the chance to walk about the National Trust Property first and see what was in the rest of their displays. In this […]
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National Portrait Gallery: Edinburgh We had a Study Session booked at the National Collection Centre in Edinburgh last week. So off we set, across the country to have a look at some Eighteenth Century Stays, Shifts and Hoops. On arrival into Scotland we found we had a […]
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Whalebone Stays: Who Wore Them – Part 5 Images of Plebeian Women that are Unclear We have so many images gathered which we thought showed signs of a more controlled body look or which we thought could be used be used for the non-wearing stay argument but […]
Read more →Totnes Fashion Museum (All Photos Courtesy of the Totnes Fashion Museum) I had the most amazing day with Julia Fox at the Totnes Fashion Museum when they were changing their displays. From a prior phone call she had 3 dresses waiting to be dressed onto their mannequins […]
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The Stomacher-Style Stays Problem: We are a bit bemused! (can we also just add here that we are currently unsure if this is a genuine dress – there seems to be no museum details ever attached to it and a Historian has looked at it and pointed […]
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Compere / Button Front Dresses: Here’s a list of dresses that have the button-front detail that we’ve found so far.We’ve included notes on each dress, so please feel free to comment, if you see we’ve missed anything. Also, two of the images from the internet and one […]
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I have just come back from an impromptu visit to London where I managed to grab about an hour in the National Portrait Gallery. I had to pretty much run round it and what I did manage to see I managed to make some extremely quick notes […]
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