I haven’t been sewing consistently, but I have made more progress on the bodice for this giant green bustle dress. It’s beginning to look like the end – needs finishing on the…
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V358: Rudolf Nureyev Exhibition at the de Young, San Francisco
Chris and I popped over The Hill for a photo shoot this past week, and while we were there, we visited the de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. On display was…
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V357: Beginning Corset Training – Day 1
My New Years Resolution for 2013 is to experiment with corset training. Nothing crazy. Nothing extreme. I’m just curious about the effect consistent pressure on the natural waist will have on my…
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V356: A Few More Antique and Vintage Shoes
Well, here I am again to show you more historic shoes from my rapidly growing collection…. Wedding Slippers, 1870s. These are a perfect example of an 1870s slipper. They have a slightly…
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V355: Green Acres Bustle Gown Progress
Little by little this gown is coming together. It’s complicated! Please forgive my lack of backdrop – working on a better system! I have all the trims on the skirt now, and…
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V354: Antique and Vintage Proportion You Can Easily Achieve
I received a copy of Authentic Victorian Dressmaking Techniques recently, and found an interesting little blurb on standard pattern measurements (in this case Butterick), for 1905. It showed a 10 inch difference between…
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V353: 1920s Knickers Pattern
Hi all! Miss Emily, of My Vintage Visions Blog, sent over this adorbs little original 1920s knickers pattern. Aren’t these just sweet? /want/ I’m off to cut my hair like the illustrated…
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V352: New Vintage Shoe Acquisitions
Well, I’ve been on eBay entirely too much…again…acquiring vintage and antique footwear for our quickly growing collection. All the shoes I nabbed aren’t even here yet, but I wanted to share with…
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V351: How To Make the Simplest 1920s Slip
Yesterday I showed you some original 1920s slips, and now today it’s time to show you the results, as promised, of my own little project. Here is my finished slip – the…
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V350: 1920s Slips, Chemises, and Camisoles
I’ve been working on a 1920s slip to go under a semi-sheer beaded gown I purchased a short time ago. Easy, right? Well, I’m on version two tonight, haha! I have made…
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V348: How To Do The 1940s Lip…
Yesterday I received Retro Makeup: Techniques for Applying the Vintage Look in the mail, and sat down right then and there and read through it. I’m fascinated by hair and makeup of the…
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V347: Shoes of the 1860s-1880s
I’m still plugging away on my 2012 “Vintage 365” project, ha! I want to share my new costume-related New Years Resolution with you, but I can’t until I’m done with last year’s.…
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V346: How to Make a Victorian Bustle – Pattern and Instructions
Hi all! Okay, I’m going to attempt to explain how to make the lobster tail bustle I posted about last time. I want to stress that there is no right or wrong…
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V345: Finished 1880 “Lobster Tail” Bustle
I finished off my electric blue “lobster tail” tournure this morning, and I’m really happy with the result! I took lots of photos of the construction, so I will write a tutorial…
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V344: And Now To Make a Lobster Tail
…a bustle, I mean, or a tournure. Originally I had planned *not* to make a big ole honkin’ bustle, but I can see now why it is a necessity. The big huge…
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V343: Costumer’s Christmas Swag
Some of the lovely, lovely items I received for Christmas… Costume books! The one beneath is an illustrated shoe reference guide – good stuff! A lovely beaded 1920s style purse. I’ve been…
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V342: 1930s Christmas Dress, Decades of Style #3007
Happy Holidays! For those of you who celebrated Christmas, I hope you had a wonderful one! We had a family-and-friend-packed day, full traditions old and new. One of my new traditions is…
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V340: 1930s Christmas Dress, “Green Acres” Gown Progress, and a Flippin’ Button Hook
It’s Christmas Eve! Yeeeeeeee! Aside from running around buying last minute gifts and groceries, it’s a great day off to get a little sewing in. I finished my 1930s Christmas dress, and…
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V338: Green Acres Bustle Gown Skirt Progress
It’s slow going over here in Green Acres, partially due to laziness, and partially due to the omg-howmuchyardage!?-for-trims that comes along with many bustle projects. My original plan for the trimmeries on…
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V337: Bustle Decoration Inspiration
I’ve been so bad about blogging recently. So much for 365 straight days of blogging! I will make it to 365, but it won’t be by January 1st, haha! Anywho, I thought…
