1880’s Fashion Articles

Dressing up in a 1865 Ballgown

Dress and hair: Nikita Ivanovsky Model: Elena Safronova Video: Olga Akulich Crinoline by Anton Priymak source

Fashion in 18th-Century Paris

Get dressed in 18th century Paris! Period costume designer and artist, Maxwell Barr, walks us through what is so interesting about French Fashion in the 1700’s in conjunction with the exhibition "Paris: Life & Luxury". We live in a t-shirt generation, so the grandeur...

Historical Costume Books Part 1 (featuring a minor tangent into the Ditchley Portrait).

How do you research historical costumes? Which books are useful, and which ones aren't? Today I thought I'd take you through some of the books I have that deal with fashion history. I can't go through all of the books I'd like to share with you in one go, so these are...