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In an effort to forestall the inevitable “make all the costumes” insanity that is threatening to hit me right now, I’m going to start an ongoing discourse about the kind of sources I frequently study when researching Elizabethan women’s clothing.  Today, I’m ( Read more... )

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In the parlance of the SCA, I am on court of the incipient Prince and Princess of the Mists, who step up this Saturday at their Investiture.  (Translation: I am being a lady-in-waiting for the next several months at events and will be doing a lot of standing ( Read more... )

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(This is an ongoing research project on building an entire wardrobe for a Florentine woman, c. 1580 which will be completed by August. Please be patient as all of my documentation and photos of my process will be revealed then.)

It was a few years ago when I ( Read more... )

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So, this is probably going to be a bit of a controversial post, and if you’re someone who is feeling super sensitive today, and/or happens to have a different costume and blogging agenda, then I think you probably not read below the adorable picture of my ( Read more... )

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I have been going through the immense collection of the Bibliothèque des Arts Décoratifs, trying to compile fashion plates depicting either crazy hats or the chemise a la reine, and after two days, and about 10 total hours at it, I’ve started to go a little mad ( Read more... )

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So, I had nothing short of an epiphany yesterday morning as to my thesis topic. (Could explain why I was feeling splurgy at BevMo and walked out with an $80 bottle of St. George absinthe, now that I think about it…) In a nut shell, I want to examine the ( Read more... )

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I’m currently on East Coast time and so I was wide awake at 5am this morning, digging around on the internet for images to use for my upcoming class on the fashionable Florentine woman’s silhouette in the latter half of the 16th century (which, as things like ( Read more... )

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