This is the gown I made for the last dance. The detail along the neckline is very pretty, but the photo doesn't do it justice.
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The passions, obsessions, experiments, and designs of a young seamstress.
The Seamstress
Hester is an obsessive, needlework-aholic who spends most evenings and weekends researching, or working on a sewing project. She usually lives in Bozeman, MT with her books, mannequin, and needles, but is known to take extended journeys to other parts of the globe.
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From "The Mirror of Graces" , 1811
"The secret of dressing lies in adaptation to your figure, your rank, your circumstances. No woman is at forty what she was at twenty, nor at sixty what she was at forty. Each age has an appropriate style of figure and of pleasing; and it is the business of discernment and of taste to maintain these advantages in their due season."
"She possessed an art that sufficed, even in a land that afforded comparatively little scope for its exercise....It was the art - then, as now, almost the only one within a woman's grasp - of needle-work."
-The Scarlet Letter
-The Scarlet Letter
Blog Archive
Links
- Bath Costume Museum
- Demode Couture
- Fabrics-Store - linen
- Harriets
- Historically Dressed
- Lacma - great online gallery of costumes
- Pemberley Designs - a very talented young seamstress
- The Blithe-Hearted Lady
- The Dressmaker's Shop - period sewing info, fabric, and supplies
- The Fashionable Past - EXCELLENT SITE!!!
- The Very Merry Seamstress
- ThreadArt - silk ribbon store
- Truly Victorian Patterns
The Seamstress
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