Federal New England Fashion - Kirsten Hammerstrom

Memento Mori/Memento Vivere

Posted on August 22, 2019 by kittycalash

Late August is the time when kids go back to school, and nostalgia grows for summers past and the months just gone, and for what you didn’t get done that...

1830s/Clothing/Living History/Reenacting

Go Big When You Go Home

Posted on September 13, 2018 by kittycalash

A year after moving, Virginia feels like home, even as I continue to experience accent-based misunderstandings and yearn for different apples. But if home is wh...

Clothing/personal

Frivolous Friday: Favorite Fabric

Posted on August 11, 2017 by kittycalash

Favorite Fabric? Are you kidding? Is it fabric? It’s my favorite. There’s the hand-woven handkerchief made by a friend that is my absolute favorite textile acce...

Clothing/History/Living History/Museums/Reenacting

Milliner’s Shop Redux: A big, visual project

Posted on August 10, 2017 by kittycalash

When I first moved to Providence, I lived in Fox Point, a slightly fringy-dingy neighborhood of Portuguese and Cape Verdean immigrants and their descendants tha...