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A while back I mentioned delving into the topic of the chemise à la reine and its *ahem* racier associations. I figured what better day to do that than a Saturday, when people aren’t likely to be checking this blog at work?

But just in case, I have put the ( Read more... )

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I love Cynthia’s chemise gown. I think she perfectly captured the fit and overall look of what I like to think of as Trianon Chic.


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I carpool to work with Trystan and the last two days she’s been ragging on me for falling off the daily posting bandwagon. Work has really ramped up in the last week and I’ve been up to my eyeballs with it, which means less time to think about pretty dresses.

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I carpool to work with Trystan and the last two days she’s been ragging on me for falling off the daily posting bandwagon. Work has really ramped up in the last week and I’ve been up to my eyeballs with it, which means less time to think about pretty dresses.

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As you saw in the previous post, I worked off of my notes for the Platt Hall chemise and wound up taking some shortcuts, like machine sewing everything. At that point I didn’t have the time to handsew every seam. The toughest part was figuring out how the ( Read more... )

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I’m out of town for the weekend so I’ll be republishing the next three Chemise Gown installments from the original blog I started a couple of years ago to specifically track my research progress on this project.

March 3, 2013

Well, my little breakdown a few ( Read more... )

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I’m going out of town for the weekend so I’ll be republishing the next three Chemise Gown installments from the original blog I started a couple of years ago to specifically track my research progress on this project.

October 24, 2012:

So, today started off ( Read more... )

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I’m going out of town for the weekend so I’ll be republishing the next three Chemise Gown installments from the original blog I started a couple of years ago to specifically track my research progress on this project.

August 10, 2012

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One of the little known (outside of Spain) awesome ladies of the late-Georgian period was María Cayetana de Silva, 13th Duchess of Alba. She was… Well, how do I put this… eccentric. Very, very eccentric. She was one of Goya’s muses, and indeed, two of his most ( Read more... )

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Paula Byrne, biographer of the actress Mary “Perdita” Robinson, writes: “On October 30, 1782, the Morning Herald reported that ‘The Perdita has received a dress from Paris, which was introduced this Autumn by the Queen of France, and has caused no small anxiety ( Read more... )