Welcome to the sixth episode of the A Most Beguiling Accomplishment podcast! In this episode, I'm talking about the changes in making clothes over the Middle Ages that led to the development of tailoring.
Tag: historical fashion
Fashioning San Francisco
The de Young's show, Fashioning San Francisco, is a visual feast but lacks historical grounding or contextualization.
Magasin des Modes, 9e Cahier, Plate I
Despite the details that we gave in the preceding Issue on all the forms of caracos, of justes, of Turkish caracos, of little jackets, all has not yet been said.
18th Century Women’s Dress Book!
Everyone! I am incredibly happy to announce that I have signed a contract with Routledge to produce a book of patterns of eighteenth-century women’s garments!
In Defense of Embroidery
Embroidery is routinely used in historical fiction to represent women's oppression. And I ask, why? And what if it weren't like that?
