I'm knee deep in tech rehearsals on the two Shakespeare repertory shows right now, so today i've got a fortuitous guest post by my friend Trystan, who works as a writer/editor at Yahoo! by day and a historical costumer by nights-and-weekends. She originally wrote this piece aimed at an audience of reenactment costumers and bloggers who write about ( Read more... )

Today, i'm so excited to bring something completely new to La Bricoleuse: my first guest blogger!

An old friend and colleague, Trystan L. Bass (lj user trystbat), recently had the wonderful opportunity to visit couture milliner Stephen Jones' hat exhibit at London's Victoria & Albert Museum. She graciously agreed to write up the experience for me to ( Read more... )