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November 12, 2018

The Importance of Breeches

November 12, 2018/ Jacky Ingram
The Importance of Breeches

How do C17th breeches close at the front? Probably not the way we have tended to make, looking pack from our modern stand point. This blog looks at one alternative method.

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November 12, 2018/ Jacky Ingram/ 1 Comment
Dress-making, Seventeenth century, Costume
Breeches, Fly closure, Soldier's clothing
November 05, 2018

Book Review: Clothes of the Common People Series

November 05, 2018/ Jacky Ingram
Book Review: Clothes of the Common People Series

A review of the series of research pamphlets called “Clothes of the Common People of Elizabethan and Early Stuart England” as a source for making re-enactment costume.

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November 05, 2018/ Jacky Ingram/ 2 Comments
Costume, Seventeenth century, Sixteenth Century
Elizabethan, Stuart, Common People, Living History
October 29, 2018

Creating a Banqueting Gown Part V

October 29, 2018/ Jacky Ingram

The final post on making a 1630 high fashion outfit.

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October 29, 2018/ Jacky Ingram/ 3 Comments
Costume, Dress-making, Seventeenth century
silk gown, Lace collar, Banquet, Feast, English Civil War
October 22, 2018

Creating a Banqueting Gown Part IV

October 22, 2018/ Jacky Ingram
Creating a Banqueting Gown Part IV

Making the accessories for a 1630’s fashion gown have given the dress something very special and set off the look perfectly.

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October 22, 2018/ Jacky Ingram/ 1 Comment
Costume, Dress-making, Seventeenth century
Lace collar, ribbons, accessories, lace cuffs, Stomacher
October 15, 2018

Creating a Banqueting Gown Part III

October 15, 2018/ Jacky Ingram
Creating a Banqueting Gown Part III

Part three in the story of making a 1630’s high fashion outfit.

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October 15, 2018/ Jacky Ingram/ 1 Comment
Costume, Dress-making, Seventeenth century
1630, silk gown, hand sewing, authentic, tailored
October 07, 2018

Creating a Banqueting Gown Part II

October 07, 2018/ Jacky Ingram
Creating a Banqueting Gown Part II

Part two of the construction of a banqueting gown for the seventeenth century.

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October 07, 2018/ Jacky Ingram/
Costume, Dress-making, Seventeenth century
Pattern making, Scaling Up, Gown, Banquet, Corset, Stays, Dressmaking
October 01, 2018

Creating a Banqueting Gown

October 01, 2018/ Jacky Ingram
Creating a Banqueting Gown

The design and creation of a silk seventeenth century dress

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October 01, 2018/ Jacky Ingram/
Costume, Dress-making, Seventeenth century
Gown, Banquet, English Civil War, Silk Bodice, Bodice, Corset, Stays, Tailor's dummy, mannequin
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