finished historical costume

4 min read 2022-12-22 01:27:32

Refashioned Edwardian Lace Slip

This refashioned Edwardian lace slip was my Edwardian combination before! The Edwardian combination was one of my first Edwardian sewing projects

9 min read 2022-12-01 03:37:56

‘Every well groomed woman is very particular to see that outside garments fit without wrinkles and with a glove-like appearance across the hips

39 min read 2022-11-18 07:15:42

The Edwardian shirtwaist costume was the most practical everyday attire. A shirtwaist costume consisted of a tailored skirt and a separate shirtwaist

6 min read 2022-11-17 02:51:42

The Edwardian era is my favorite historical era at the moment, that’s why I made another piece of Edwardian underwear! You could call this piece

2 min read 2022-10-22 08:10:58

I’m currently making some historybounding or cottagecore dresses. The dresses are inspired by historical fashion. However, they are still modern

3 min read 2022-10-01 08:11:16

To get fashionably wide hips and a big butt, Edwardian women often wore hip pads. After making an Edwardian padded bustle pad, I’ve now made

8 min read 2022-08-17 04:49:12

Inspired by Edwardian girls’ dresses I made a short Edwardian cotton dress. But instead of using new fabric I used one vintage apricot-colored

4 min read 2022-07-11 05:29:15

After making an Edwardian chemise with crochet yoke, I always wanted to crochet an Edwardian crochet lace yoke from scratch! To make the yoke I

8 min read 2022-06-01 02:59:55

I wanted to make an Edwardian summer net corset for years but I couldn’t find a suitable net fabric. But now I finally found a cotton net fabric

7 min read 2022-05-23 09:11:08

My Edwardian unboned sports corset is my favorite corset so far: it’s so comfy! The corset is a single-layer corset made of thin pale blue cotton

5 min read 2022-05-20 06:17:45

‘The “W. B. Erect Form” corset gives a long, low and full effect from shoulder to bust. It is the only correct model for the new

7 min read 2022-05-16 00:36:17

If you read my blog regularly, you know that I’m more drawn to historical lower class everyday clothing, especially rural working woman costumes.

5 min read 2022-04-07 06:28:52

‘Margery was always in black and white, short walking skirt and trim white shirt waist, freshly laundered […] There was no picture hat on her

6 min read 2022-04-05 06:58:14

I made a short Edwardian faux silk petticoat to wear under my newest short Edwardian walking skirts. My main inspirations for this petticoat

7 min read 2022-04-04 05:06:28

The girl ‘wore a big rat under her pompadour and preferred a short walking skirt, even if men did turn around and look’ (Los Angeles Herald,