Isis
Sewing makes me happy, so I try to do it every day. Writes about the 18th century and various other sewing projects in Isis' Wardrobe and about creating a 1940's wardrobe in Fashionably Forties.
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18th century 17th century extant clothes 16th century sewing masquerade victorian stays caps 19th century men's clothes the historically sew fortnightly embroidery 17th century stays 1520 gown burlesque gustafs skål 1910's period make-up stays with sleeves
1 December 2018
It’s been a bit of the quiet sewing wise this autumn. I’m hand sewing an early 16th century shift; it’s sewn together, had the seams felled and it’s hemmed....
A couple of closed Robe à la Française
17 November 2018
Not the most popular version of the Robe à la Française, but the version with a closed skirt crops up from time to time, roughly between the 1730s-60s.Ca. 1735, The...
17th century frog purse- done!
3 September 2018
I finished something during my vacation! And a UFO of long standing too- namely the 17th century frog purse. I fell in this frog purse five(!) years ago and decided I wanted to make...
30 July 2018
Originally I had planned to make a white cotton undergown with a black wool overgown. the pattern coming from La Mode Bagatelle's Artistic Reform Teagown for Visby Baddagar, the Victorian...