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1909 afternoon dress
This dress is for the upcoming Greater Bay Area Costumer’s Guild’s Gibson Girls event — a tour of historic Shinn house, along with picnic and croquet… read more about my 1909 afternoon dress project |
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why libraries are your friend
Well, besides the fact that I work at one… I’ve done a half-hearted update to my links page with a few new resources, the most exciting of which is: |
The New York Public Library’s Picture Collection is an outstandingly huge collection of images, most pre-1923, from books, magazines, newspapers, prints, photographs, and postcards. There are a bazillion images of interest to costumers, and in fact, if you click on BROWSE you’ll see that not only do they have Costume as one of their selections, but they’ve helpfully subdivided it into time periods and topics (like working class, regional, and occasion-specific costume).
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1910s corset
If there had been a plague of locusts sometime during the making of this corset, I wouldn’t have been surprised… read more about my 1910s corset project |
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real women’s clothing, 1750-1919
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. |
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1910s corset
It’s beginning to look like a corset! read more about my 1910s corset project |