Isis' Wardrobe

 The Embroidered by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, 1736 April is more than halfway through and I feel the need to reevaluate my sew...

I have actually finished something! I had planned to finish it on Monday so it could fit in into Historically Sew Forthly, but I didn’t qu...

 The Enraged Musician by William Hogarth, 1741 A comment from Kendra on my post on leather stays made me do a search for them on Goo...

 Svartsjö Palace. The main building was started in 1734. On May 9 Gustafs Skål is holding their grand party to celebrate that the so...

Are leather stays controversial? I sometimes encounter that view online, which have always puzzled me as I know there are extant ones aro...

  Basically everyone asked says that I should do the piemontaise and I must confess that I feel most inclined to that one as well. So a ...

Front- and backlaced stays with tie-on sleeves, ca 1750, Italy Gustafs Skål's big jubilation party will take place May 9 (Do come, i...