About

Today, there's a lot of historical costumers and several books on cutting and sewing 18th century clothes. But most of them focus on Britain and the U.S.—information on French fashion in Continental Europe is more scarce, especially online. I want to contribute to filling that void.

I also have a more local focus, because even though fashion was international, people didn't dress quite the same everywhere. For instance, check out the colored caps and visible jumps of the lower-class Swedish townswomen in the blog header—a style that was widely worn in Sweden at the time, and to some extent in Continental Europe (but would be decidedly incorrect for American Revolutionary War reenactment, because it wasn't worn there).

Who am I?

My name is Anna-Carin, I'm in my late 40s and live in Sweden. I haven't blogged for a long time, but I hope to resume sewing and blogging eventually.



Image credits: The blog header shows a Stockholm street scene from a 1773 painting by Johan Sevenbom in Stockholms Stadsmuseum, which has published the photo under a CC: BY-NC-SA license (photo cropped and faded by me).