Author: kendra

There are almost 50 new listings on the Real Women’s Clothing directory. I’m so excited that more and more museums are not only putting up clear color images of their costumes, but also adding multiple views and even 3D rotation zoom-y things. Yay! No more wondering what’s going on in back there! Thanks to those who’ve emailed me sites and images that they’ve come across.

It’s beginning to look like a corset! read more about my 1910s corset project

Do you think there’s such a thing as sewing addiction? read more about my 1910s corset project

Everyone is excited about these reconstructions of Renaissance clothing from famous portraits. While I’ve heard from someone who has seen them up close that they’re not all that well constructed, it’s still a pretty darn good idea. I remember the first time I went to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence back in 1995 — I was wandering around, admiring everything, when I came into the room that holds that famous portrait of Eleonora de Toledo and everything stopped. WOW.

An article about 18th century printed cottons that I recently wrote for the Greater Bay Area Costumer’s Guild’s newsletter has been just been put online. When I first started thinking about my 1780s robe a l’anglaise project I briefly entertained the idea of buying some $20/yd repro printed cotton, but luckily sanity prevailed — this is the result of my research when I was trying to find out what would be passably authentic and what wouldn’t!