Waistcoat Wanting? Workshop!
I managed, with sore fingers and considerable snake-eyed concentration, to get breeches and coats finished enough to send these two off to Battle Road better dr...
Tag: Federal New England Fashion
Smock it to Me
Edited to correct numerous typos and to add a bad sketch of the OSV apron. Don’t try to do research while conducting a small but energetic boy through a m...
Checked Linen Aprons post-1800
Not that this is an exhaustive or final chronicle, but Jackie asked about the apron. I first encountered this form of apron at Old Sturbridge Village, on displa...
New England Spencers
You may recall how tortured I was (sort of) about making a Spencer for What Cheer Day, concerned that Spencers could not be documented to Rhode Island, let alon...
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