Missus Smith and Mistuh Mason Stay Up All Night…
… sewin’. Or so they say. Missus Smith gave up at 12:30 to go to sleep, and got up again just as Mistuh Mason was going to bed. I find the whole thi...
Tag: 18th century clothing
Chemisettes
Chemisette or tucker? By the time The Shooting Star was published in 1941-42, “bib and tucker” had wandered away from their original meanings. Tucke...
New England Lasses
Slightly naughty, no? The original is at the American Antiquarian Society, where the date given is 1790-1810, based on the typography (the internal fashion refe...
You Wear What You Are
Part two of a series I’m minding my own business checking out my friends’ business on Facebook, when Mrs Garnett appears on Joanna Waugh’s blo...
You must be logged in to post a comment.