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Corsets, crinolines & kitty cats

How to tell if you have awesome friends: If they stop by your house on the weekend for a cup of tea and you say “Oh, I was just about to climb into a chemise and corset, any chance you’d be willing to take some photos of me?” and they spend over an hour helping to lace you into a corset and directing poses and snapping photos: The resulting photos are evidence of how truly fabulous Emily of Ever So Scrumptious is! I hope she had as much fun as I did helping me document me wearing my 1860s chemise (finally!) and new stockings and drawers, and red elliptical crinoline (even more finally!), and paisley petticoat (also finally). We got some lovely atmospheric, romantic period stuff: And some adorable stuff with Felicity (because how could you possibly pass up the chance to pose with Felicity?): And some fun stuff with me being silly (this is me immediately after saying “I don’t know what to do with my hands! I feel they should be doing something! …

Super technical historical costuming stuff…look, KITTY!

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So tonight I had Plans. Not just plans, but Plans. The organized kind, in italics. The kind that you capitalize. And sometimes even underline. Plans. That kind. I was either going to finish my super pretty and sparkly and exciting submission for The Politics of Fashion, plus write my blog post for it so that I could photograph the project when the light was good in the morning and publish it. Or… I was going to work on the pattern for my stockings, and get further along in the tutorial. I wasn’t ambitious enough to think I would finish either, as it takes a LONG time to do a good pattern that can be adapted for a lot of sizes and a LONG time to write a good tutorial, but at least I’d get it progressed. Instead though, I opened up the Historical Fashion & Textile Encyclopedia, and realised that I had a bunch of terminology posts to add to it, so I spent two hours updating it. And then I remembered that the HSF …

This total lack of fun is brought to you by…

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The flu. First awful, ghastly non-fun news: I’m too ill to lecture, so unfortunately both my talks at Handmade have been cancelled. I’m very sorry for the inconvenience if you have booked one. The good news is the talk is all ready to go, with some amazing new garments and tons of fascinating info, so it will happen (bigger! And better! In a better location!). Just not this week. This week is not fun. Felicity doesn’t think this week has been much fun either. Seriously, she’s hardly moved from this position for 72 hours now! It’s so boring! No fabric, no patterns, nothing to play with, nothing to do. I’m so bored I even miss the annoying way she follows me around with a camera constantly. I keep trying to sleep on her chest, but she keeps mumbling something about ‘4.7 kilos of extra pressure’ and shoving me off. It’s not like she hasn’t tried to sleep on me or anything.