Spanish Gown, c. 1580s

Long time no post. I'm sorry for the long pause. To be honest, I'm trying to keep this blog a positive space and not to rant abour things but the past year, especially with the pandemic, has been extremely hard on me (miscarriages, death of my beloved...

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Dorothea bodies c. 1598, Part Two

Although my stays have been finished for a month now, I haven't gotten around to write another blog post about them. My master thesis and my wedding past month have been pre-occupying my mind, plus due to the pandemic, I haven't been able to attend any...

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Dorothea bodies c. 1598, Part One

I own quite a few stays and corsets. Two of them are 17th century appropriate, so I don't have the need to make another one, but I do love a new challenge. One of them is styled after the 1603 effigy stays of Queen Elizabeth I. and boned with reed, the...

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New Beginnings

My first entry. How do you write a good beginning for a new project? Maybe I should first explain how all this madness started: When I was about 15 years old I developed a soft spot for historical costumes. When the film "Marie Antoinette" came...

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