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historical costume projects & resources

Photos are up from Costume College.

Some of the classes were really exciting, such as “Fancy Feet” (which demoed all of the millions of foot attachments you can use on your sewing machine — I’ve already ordered my ruffler from Clotilde), and “Georgian Fabrics.” Other classes were not as useful as I’d hoped — some of the period overview classes turned out to be more skimpy or more “show & tell” than I’d hoped. But overall it was fun to hang out and talk shop with other costumers, see the fabulous vintage clothing display, and (of course!) shop in the marketplace.

I signed up to teach two classes next year — an overview of 1830’s fashions with Heather, and another class on fashionable women of the bustle era (1870’s-80’s). I’m really excited about the second one, and am already collecting images of Princess Alexandra, Jennie Churchill, and Lily Langtry etc. If you have any suggestions for key fashionable figures from the U.S., England, or France from this era, please email me!

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