Author: kendra

Okay, so there is at least one seller, if not more, on ebay who keeps selling completely and totally available costume books as being “rare and out of print” for very large sums of money! Often the seller(s) (I haven’t paid enough attention to figure out if it’s the same person) doesn’t list the title of the book, or show a picture of the cover — so the buyers are (I assume) unaware of what exactly they are purchasing.

I’m not normally a “con” person, but on Sunday I went to BayCon to docent the GBACG costume exhibit, and stayed around for the Regency dancing in the evening. Apparently the big costume day is Saturday (that’s the day of the masquerade), but there were some nice costumes wandering the halls and I managed to take a few photos of hall costumes and the GBACG exhibit. The dancing was fun and I ran into various people I knew (plus any chance to wear my black and white stripey dress is a good thing!), so all in all I had a good time!

This hat has been about two years in the making… read more about my 1780s capote project

I’ve been racing along without documenting my progress… read more about my 1780 robe à l’anglaise

…for those of us who can’t get there, but the Met has finally put some images up from their current Costume Institute exhibition, “Dangerous Liaisons.”