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Costume Year in Review :)

koshka_the_cat Dec 31, 2009 00:19

I normally don't do this sort of thing, but padawansguide inspired me! So here goes :)

( My first costume was finished in the first few days of the year, and the last completed in the last few days! )

purple paletot, parasol, pre-hoop hooped petticoat, caps, robe de style, jacobean jacket, red wool petticoat, 20s underthings, brown anglaise, fanchon bonnet, the ale-house dress, green wool kirtle, the 1869 dress, yellow wool dress, quilted hood, the instant pudding cap, muslin shawl, 18c shortgown, 1820 corset, 18c floral jacket, frances stuart, green regency bonnet, aprons, danish regency, mitts, 20s bathing costume, stripey polonaise, aqua stays

A few things I learned at Costume College

koshka_the_cat Aug 08, 2009 02:13

The twenties are a wonderful decade. Not only might a dress still fit if you cut two fronts (as I did on one muslin of the 1920s bathing suit. Oops), but if your bandeau falls around your waist within five minutes of putting it on despite the fact that when you were trying it on, it didn't need the straps to stay up and you end up wearing it ( Read more... )

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The World's Most Impractical Bathing Costume :)

koshka_the_cat Jul 29, 2009 23:38

For those of you not going to Costume College, a preview of my insanity.

Ever since I saw it, I there was a black silk taffeta bathing suit I wanted from 1920s Fashions from B. Altman & Company and yesterday, the discovery of a piece of black silk taffeta about two yards long, and a smallish piece that had been used to cut bias strips made me ( Read more... )

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