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11 tips how on to wear vintage and historical clothing in your everyday life without making people thinking you’re crazy or old-fashioned! 😉 Do you want to wear your beautiful vintage and historical dresses in your everyday life? But you don’t want to look too costumey or old-fashioned? Below I share 11 tips on how … Continue reading 11 Tips On How To Dress Vintage & Historical Without Looking Too Costumey →

The Edwardian era is my favorite historical era at the moment 😀 and also the era I know the most about. I try to make all my Edwardian clothes as historically accurate as possible using Edwardian sewing techniques. So I thought I’d write a list about popular Edwardian sewing details and why they were used. … Continue reading 10 Edwardian Sewing Details + Why They Were Used →

If you’ve followed me for a while, you might remember the “Cinderella dress” that I made in 2013, and then made detachable sleeves for in 2015. I mentioned then that I meant to add lacing over a mo…

While a lot of people spend a lot of time developing their personal style, few can say they have medieval dresses hanging in their closet. YouTuber Bernadette Banner has more than just a few. Furthermore, she’s made all of them by hand. “I study the history of dress through practical experimentation and reconstruction, exploring historical eras preceding the introduction of the electric sewing machine because technology is weird,” she says.

Last autumn I started making a new winter dress from some caramel coloured wool from my stash and a piece of tartan wool I got at a charity shop – blue and brown are my favourite colours, and they …

Bernadette Banner on Instagram: “I dare you to find me a single thing more romantic than books. #fallforcostume Day 28: Romantic #bookworm #booknerd #readersofinstagram…”

This robe en chemise was a very quick and dirty project. The idea was to make something fast while trying out a pattern that I had been altering to fit. I was never entirely happy with my first robe en chemise that I had made for myself, so I wanted to make another. Design-wise it's really similar to the first gown, but there are some subtle, yet significant differences. Most notably, it's worn with a pair of 1780s stays, unlike my first robe en chemise that was made to go over my white…

Folkwear was having a sale and took the opportunity to stock up on some patterns for my growing Edwardian-inspired wardrobe. I couldn’t resist getting a copy of their Armistice Blouse pattern…

Edwardian women not always wore long skirts, they wore short walking skirts especially for sports and on rainy days.