The passions, obsessions, experiments, and designs of a young seamstress.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Civil War past productions
These are some gowns I have worn in the past. The top one I made last summer, and the bottom one was made for me two years ago by Lissa's mom. Try to ignore all the wrinkles - they have been packed in boxes for some time!
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
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