Dress in 18thC Stockholm

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

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16 June 2018

HSM 2018 #3: A frumpy Swedish bedgown

My bedgown, folded in half along the center back. There are several scaled-down patterns based on extant Swedish bedgowns. Some of the...

15 January 2018

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

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

20 November 2017

Continental stays 2: The Garsault stays pattern

M. de Garsault, Art du Tailleur (1769), plate 12 (detail). Source: gallica.bnf.fr / BnF . The stays in Garsault's 1769 "Art d...

06 October 2017

Continental stays 1: Diderot à la Waugh

Waugh's pattern in Corsets and Crinolines , page 40. Norah Waugh's classic book Corsets and Crinolines (1954, reprinted 1987)...

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Anna-Carin: 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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