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History Hurts

Posted on February 23, 2017 by kittycalash

We have been here before: terrible stays, stays in need of minor mods, and “it isn’t history till it hurts.” New this past weekend was the Busk Bust Blister (Bu...

Clothing/Fail/Living History/making things

Bloody, Bratty, Boning

Posted on May 27, 2016 by kittycalash

Sometimes I am a terrible brat, as in this past weekend, when the autocorrect on my phone insisted that the proud four-letter Anglo-Saxon words I was typing wer...

Clothing/Fail/making things

Stay Thy Hand

Posted on May 2, 2016 by kittycalash

Stays. They’re infrastructure: absolutely necessary, a major time commitment, and decidedly unsexy. I am in dire need to two new pairs, one for late 18th ...

Clothing/Living History

Bustin’ Out

Posted on April 6, 2016 by kittycalash

Grand weekend, right? Spent a happy day cleaning, missed any hints of the reported near-fracas, inappropriate hostility, or snide commentary, and thus had a per...