Dress in 18thC Stockholm

Research into 18th century European (Continental and Swedish) clothing and fashion, period patterns and fabrics.

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29 June 2018

In Germany, tailors made women's clothes

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For a long time, tailors made outer clothes for both men and women, while female seamstresses and home sewers made linen undergarments. Then...
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15 January 2018

Book review: The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Dressmaking

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"The American Duchess Guide to18th Century Dressmaking", by Lauren Stowell and Abby Cox Yay—I got "The American Duchess ...
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18 May 2017

Fabric samples book review

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Quite some time ago, I mentioned a new book of mid-18th century fabric samples, intending to write a review of it. And now I've finally...
22 November 2015

Mid-18th century fabric samples

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A new book showcasing a whole 1500 Swedish fabric samples from the mid-18th century has just been published. This is not a proper review, be...
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I enjoy reading about clothes of the past, and speculating about how they were cut and sewn at a time when fabrics were much more expensive than they are today.
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