Eva's historical costuming blog

I made this dress from slk shantung back in 2014.  But I never managed to get a good photo of it, just very dark ones from Double Wars 2015 ...

 So now the very old dress that never got finished, that I wrote about in my previous post , is hemmed and has got hand made buttonholes, an...

I think that I cut out, and started on this dress in 2002. But it might be as early as 1999 or 2000. It is sewn together, it is not hemmed, ...

 Yes, indeed: another old gown gettign its page. Though not as old as my husband's outfit that I justposted about. That one was from 200...

 I am on a roll! Three updates in as many days! Anyway, while looking through my categories of costumes in the left panel I realised how man...

 While the focus of this blog is historical costuming, I have the last five years branched out into som fantasy comstuming. They all (or mos...

 Or violet, if we're being period her, because it is not what they thought of as purple. Yes, today hubby and I went down to the basemen...