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Okay, so the 1796 dress and the 1890’s bead embroidered dress are officially on hold as I start yet ANOTHER project — c. 1874-77 afternoon dress.

Costume College is this weekend! Here’s the classes that I think I’m going to take: Edwardian overview (?), Fashionable colors from the English Regency through Edwardian times, Georgian fabrics, Victorian mourning, Men’s tailoring techniques.

A new research resource: 1930’s hats and hairstyles. These are photos of my grandmother and her friends. I’m hoping to add more photos to it soon.

Démodé has a new home at http://demode.tweedlebop.com/, and…

I’ve got a new project underway (c. 1796 Danish dress), and…

I just whipped out an 18th century corset over the weekend (photos to come soon) when I should have been writing a book review.

(Really, it’s not that I have too much time on my hands!)

All sorts of updates! My 1836 evening gown is done, and I’ve added new photo galleries from the March 16th Moulin Rouge and June 29th SDI balls.

COMMENTARY

Bath Museum of Costume The Museum of Costume in Bath has revamped their website — better design, and some nicer photos of some of their collection. I stumbled across “The Costume Drama Game” on their site, which is one of those “dress the mannequin in the appropriate historical clothing” Java games… It has some REALLY weird clothes for each period — the 1790’s figure is supposed to wear a robe a la francaise and really weird hat, the 1830’s figure ends up being “correctly” dressed in something that looks way more 1890’s to me, and I have NO IDEA what’s going on with the 1800 figure’s dress (looks 1830’s to me!). Anway, check it out. It’s odd.