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  • Bastille Day Sale 2020

    July 6, 2020

    It’s time for the annual American Duchess Bastille Day Sale – a lovely little mid-summer clearance. This year we have a lot of odds, ends, bits, bobs, end-of-line stuff hanging about. We’re…

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  • Feet Are Weird {Video}

    May 21, 2020

    Yup, they sure are! In this hopefully very useful and interesting video, Nicole explains all that goes into how shoes fit, and why it’s never as simple as just length and width.

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  • Coming Up: LIVE Youtube Q&A with Lauren – Covid-19 and Small Business

    April 10, 2020

    Hi everyone, I will be going live on Youtube on **Monday, April 13th at 10 am PDT** to talk about Covid-19, small business, and how we’ve been affected. You can follow us…

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  • Spring Cleaning 2020 SALE!

    April 8, 2020

    It’s that time of year again…Spring Cleaning! In the midst of all the madness you may be sewing up a storm. Even though all the events and shows are cancelled, don’t miss…

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  • #ADCapeCult – Free 1910s Cape PDF Pattern!

    April 7, 2020

    Free 1910s Cape Pattern – click here! Hi! If you’ve been following us on Instagram you may have seen the explosion of capes. We’ve released a free PDF gridded pattern for a…

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  • American Duchess on Youtube!

    March 25, 2020

    Hi all! Well, in light of recent and ongoing events, we’re all at home making lots and lots of Youtube videos. It’s a good way to help keep the costuming and sewing…

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  • Podcast Episode 28: Merging Royal Vintage & American Duchess

    March 23, 2020

    Yay! Welcome back to a whole new season of podcastery! It’s been awhile since we’ve done podcasts, but we get a lot of requests for them, so we thought we’d kick off…

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  • 18th Century Printed Cotton Do’s & Don’t’s

    December 23, 2019

    A beautiful printed cotton gown, 1785-95. The Met. A very condensed version of this essay, without pictures, appears in The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Dressmaking. Because there is *so much…

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  • Holiday Shipping Deadlines, 2019

    December 16, 2019

    Here’s just a quick reminder to get your American Duchess and Royal Vintage orders in by the following dates so we can ship them out and get them to you on time:…

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  • Historic & Retro Winter Shoes & Boots

    December 11, 2019

    Sleigh bells ring, are you listening? In the lane snow is glistening… <3 Here’s our annual guide to this year’s historic and retro winter shoes and boots from American Duchess and Royal…

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  • The Countess of Melbury’s Ball c. 1789 – Inspo!

    December 6, 2019

    The Met, 1780s Italian gown. Inspiration for my own gown for this event. Next March, 2020, I am attending the Countess of Melbury’s Ball in Walnut Grove, California. The event is set…

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  • Book Review: Women of the 1920s: Style Glamour, & the Avante-Garde by Thomas Bleitner

    December 2, 2019

    Louise Brooks On the eve of the 2020s, the spell of the exciting and revolutionary 1920s looms large. It was an unforgettable era with deep cultural shifts and powerful aesthetics. Women, in…

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  • Winter SALE at American Duchess & Royal Vintage

    November 29, 2019

    La la la la la – it’s that time of year where we put, like, everything on SALE! Here are the links: American Duchess This year we have the traditional FREEBIES –…

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  • The Reno Tweed Ride, 2019

    November 20, 2019

    Chrissy wore her bicycling pants, spatterdashes, and a corset on her Columbia 1920s reproduction bike. The same weekend we invaded Virginia City with our Spoop-Troupe, we enjoyed the local Tweed Ride. Tweed…

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  • The Nevada Statehood Ball – An Evening in 1864

    November 13, 2019

    The crew – Abby, Chrissy, me, and Caroline at the Nevada Statehood Ball, 2019 – photo by Chase Stevens. A few posts ago I shared how I refit my 1860s Aubergine evening…

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  • A Spoopy Day in Virginia City, Nevada

    November 7, 2019

    The Spoop-Crew in Virginia City, NV. No actual buckets of blood were consumed, but we thought about it…. Several weekends ago a group of friends came to visit us here in Reno.…

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  • Adventures in England – Nature, Painting, and Fashion

    October 10, 2019

    Hadiran’s Wall, UK Chris and I have recently returned from a vacation in Cumbria, UK, visiting the famously gorgeous Lake District. We rented an airbnb cottage for the entire length of our…

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  • Fall Historic & Vintage Shoes – Pre-Order is OPEN!

    September 6, 2019

    It’s that time of year again – the best time of year – Fall! Fall is a busy time for us here at ADHQ. We have a lot going on and so…

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  • Coco 2019 Gala – 1830s Explosion!

    August 28, 2019

    For this year’s Costume College gala, the theme was “The Opulent Streets of Venice,” which can be, well, anything really! Abby, Chrissy, and I decided to be opulently wide and fluffy, so…

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  • Photo Shoot: An Afternoon in the 1890s

    August 23, 2019

    Abby Cox in 1890s splendor in Virginia City, Nevada A little while back, Nicole and Abby got dressed up in late 19th century attire and we dashed up to Virginia City, our…

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