Art, beauty and well-ordered chaos

The question of late 18th c. women's jackets has come up on several blogs & discussions, and rather than Over-Post my findings in th...

This is a 1900-1918 wedding gown that I own. It was gifted to me by a friend many years ago & I've finally gotten around to photogr...

Last week I received an e-mail from a (potential?/not?) customer that was innocuous enough until today. What brought this to the forefront ...

Real Quick, then I'll refine this later, but as I don't know when "later" will be - I'm info dumping on you Dear Reade...

So, really quick; a very short overview of medieval women & the use of body-shapers (or not) in my limited digital pictorial references....

For those of you on FB, you already know (yeah, yeah; groan)... I bought a Great Wheel! EEEEE!!!! (and OMG, what was I thinking ???) I was ...