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Hester's Needle

The passions, obsessions, experiments, and designs of a young seamstress.

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Virginia City Ball, August 2012

Here are a random selection of pictures from our recent adventures in Virginia City!

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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