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18th Century Patterns, 17th Century Fashion Peasant, 18th Century Dress Pattern, Louise Aesthetic, 18th Century Dresses, 17th Century Fashion, Historical Clothes, Mood Happy, 18th Century Dress

When it comes to historical events and travelling, the past three years have been busier for me than any of my previous years in the hobby before. It has been absolutely wonderful but it also meant that when I've been at home, I have been frantically preparing for a trip on my time off, which lead to the complete neglect of this blog. With the limited free time and energy available, I've chosen sewing over updating the blog. Also, in the past three years I've found, like so many of you, that…

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Louise Aesthetic, 1700s Dresses, Late 18th Century Fashion, Colonial Clothing, 18th Century Dresses, 18th Century Gown, On Period, Pieces Of Me, American Duchess

Sacque gown, partially deconstructed, 1765-69 - National Trust NT 1350856 It's commonly known that 18th century dress textiles were made and remade and remade again. A great many extant gowns in museum collections show evidence of being altered - some of them in the 19th century

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Sewn in 18th repro fabric 1770s Working Dress, 1770s Fashion, 18th Century Dresses, 1700 Fashion, Colonial Dress, 18th Century Dress, 18th Century Costume, 18th Century Clothing, Linen Thread

Completely hand sewn with linen thread. The top layer is duchess silk satin, the next two layers are coarse linen and between them are the bones (round cane, 2,5 mm diameter). The bone casings for the horizontal bones are made of linen tape and the separate lining is fine linen. The pattern is based on the 1780's stays in Corsets and Crinolines by Norah Waugh. Construction pictures.

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