A Dedicated Follower of Fashion

Short-ish post! This dress had so many false starts and stops, I never bothered to take in-progress pictures of it, nor is it constructed in an especially exciting way. It's just a basic closed-front 1770s gown. But it's pink and it's fun and I like it! I think I started this dress in 2023? Bestie Robin and I had gone to Fort Fred market fair recently and I was inspired to make a new basic gown for the "next time we went to Fort Fred". (We haven't gone since.)  Some patient slash lucky ebay-ing later, I found a chunk of pink lightweight worsted wool suiting, and snapped it up. It was four yards and some change, so plenty for a closed-front gown, or an open-front gown without a matching petticoat. I have gowns in both styles, so I tossed a coin and closed won. (Finding affordable 100% wool fabric in fun colors has never been easy, and it's only gotten more difficult in the intervening three years. But what if I don't WANT pinstriped navy...) Practicing ...

 Welcome back to blog posting! (Maybe! I'm going to try to be better about blogging again. Got to fight the ever-increasing AI malarkey. My stuff may not be polished and pretty all the time but you can be damn sure I really took the photos and am writing all this out myself!)  .  This summer I made an 1810s working class outfit, and finally got around to taking pictures of it in my backyard, since I don't know when I'll get a chance to take pictures in a nicer setting! The overgrown garden beds work, I guess. Accidentally color-coordinated with the squash blossoms, very festive for fall.  . Originally I started putting together this outfit with the idea of wearing it to interpret at a local historic site in South Jersey; that didn't work out, but I figured I might as well finish the outfit up and document it! The site interprets the house and small surrounding area as it existed during the 1810s, when it was a rural farm owned by a Quaker family. The interpreter role...