Fashion Historian & Historical Costume Maker
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vintage 1920s? kimono
As promised, here are photos of the vintage kimono that I was given for Christmas. I know nothing about kimonos, so I’d love to know if anyone has any guesses on whether the date given by the shop (1920s) is correct. It’s totally hand sewn and still has the original tags. The lining is pieced from white and yellow fabric — feels like crepe de chine — and shows some age spotting. The kimono fabric itself feels like it could be either silk or rayon. |
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more peers photos
On Rollie’s site — you can see better pics of my hair here and here. |
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real women’s clothing
There’s a few new updates to the Real Women’s Clothing directory — some new ones and some new views of previous listings. As always, if you know of any images of extant clothing floating around out there (that aren’t crappy fuzzy blurry bad lighting shots) let me know. |
Speaking of which, I came across these photos of costumes from the Palazzo Mocenigo (Venice, Italy) which aren’t high enough quality to add to the directory, but are the only views I’ve found of some really yummy items. I must find a way to abscond with the red & white striped (STRIPES!) 1787 dress.
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1830s indienne print day dress
While many things in my life were put on hold by Dickens Fair, having 1 1/2 weeks off from work over the holidays finally gave me some time to get sewing… read more about my 1830s indienne print day dress project |
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spring cleaning
For those who care about these sorts of things, I’m working on a few site updates to make this here place more manageable. I like my (relatively) new menu/posts with images, but it’s made the right-hand menu get way too long — so I’ve taken all the individual links to various balls & events off of the main page, and just made one main balls & events link (still listed in the right-hand menu, now just under Links & Sources), from which you can get to all of the current and past galleries. I’ll always post about new galleries here, so you’ll know if there’s something new. |
A change I made a while ago was to remove Completed Projects from the main page — these are still linked through the Costume Galleries (by era).
I’ve added a new project page, altho it’s pretty bare bones, for my 1909 afternoon dress (to be worn at the GBACG Gibson Girls event). Of course, I PROMISE to finish my 1830s day dress first! And speaking of which, I’ll have some updates on that project (I HAVE been sewing), as well as some pictures of the vintage kimono that I got for Christmas, in the next day or two.
Let me know if you have any brilliant ideas for ways to make the navigation work better.
