A Dedicated Follower of Fashion

For my birthday, I wanted to make Regency winter-wear and have my friends play dress-up with me! I thought a day of running around the historic district of Philadelphia would fit the bill nicely, so that's what we did yesterday.

TWO posts planned for you today! Be impressed. I just thought it would be easier to separate the details about the spencer and all the pictures from our Regency play-day into two posts. First, the spencer.

I just had some finishing bits of the striped wool dress to do today, but of course it took me most of the afternoon, so I didn't get as far along on the black spencer as I'd have liked. But first, striped dress pictures! Not on me. That would be too exciting. Or terrifying, since I was off work today and I din't bother wrangling my hair... Enjoy Mabel's inappropriately low bustline instead.