Workshops & Teaching

Digital Tutorials

Historical wig styling video tutorials are available on Patreon.

Fashion History Lectures

  • The Lévite Dress: Untangling the Cultural Influences of Eighteenth-Century French Fashion, Textile Society of America
  • “Foreign Clothing”: Global Influences in Late Eighteenth-Century French Fashion, Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
  • Contextualizing Wertmüller’s 1785 Portrait of Marie-Antoinette Through Dress, Costume Society of America
  • Turquerie and Enlightenment Philosophy in the French Fashion Press, 1770-1790, Dressing Global Bodies: Clothing Cultures, Politics and Economies in Globalizing Eras, c. 1600s-1900s
  • French Fashion and Turkish Fantasy in the Late Eighteenth Century, Costume Society of America
  • “As Fashionable and Deceiving as Ever”: English Hairstyles in the Late Georgian and Regency Eras, Jane Austen Society of North America, Northern Chapter

In-Person Workshops

  • 18th Century Wig Styling: tall 1770s women’s styles
  • 18th Century Wig Styling: frizzy or curly 1780s women’s styles
  • 18th Century Wig Styling: low or high tête de mouton 1750s-60s women’s styles
  • 18th Century Wig Styling: men’s styles
  • Historical Wig Styling Techniques
  • Draping the 18th Century Robe à la Française
  • Draping the 18th Century Robe à la Polonaise, Turque, or Circassienne
  • Draping the 18th Century Robe à l’Anglaise
  • 18th Century Hand-Sewing Techniques for Dressmaking