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The Gatsby Picnic was smashing, due in large part to gorgeous grounds, fabulous clothes, and lots of champagne! read more about my gatsby dress or skip right to the gatsby picnic photo gallery

There are a bazillion new updates to what was the Real Regency & Victorian Clothing directory — now just boringly called Women’s Clothing, 1750-1919 (ideas for snappier names?). I’ve extended the listings to including 1750-1790 and 1900-1919, plus there are a bunch of new ones between 1790-1900. As usual, new listings are marked by an *.

Now, I’d be the first person to argue that corsets are not necessarily anti-female or anti-feminist, but I found myself in the hosiery section of Macy’s on Thursday night with The Fear… read more about my gatsby dress

I loathe marking even more than I loathe cutting, and that’s a lot! I used to not mark anything and just fudge it (“ooo, it looks like the dart would go here”). Now I do take the trouble to thread trace, but it’s so much work! And often I don’t want to use a fabric pencil if my fabric is at all sheer, as I worry it will show through.

How do you mark your fabric? Do you have any good tips that will make my life easier?

I got lots of work done this weekend, in between multiple fabric store trips to try to find some contrasting fabric… read more about my gatsby dress