More than Just a Pretty Hat
While pretty hats were pretty important parts of the milliner’s trade, many more things were sold in a millinery shop. Colonial Williamsburg’s Marga...
Tag: Reenacting
Frivolous Friday: Fashionable Reading
Anna Maria von Phul’s delicate watercolors of Saint Louis in 1818 (example at left) remind us that cities in the hinterland of America have never been as ...
Criss Cross
I like Dolly. The colors, the textures, the style of her gown, shawl and cap all please me. She’s rocking some serious class for a woman headed towards a ...
Haversack Stashable Lunch Bag
Mr S destroyed his lunch bag (zipper failure) and since I sew in a pre-zipper era, I declined to hunt up a new zipper and set it into the weird amalgamation tha...
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