Ladies, are you ready for traveling season? June is nearly upon us which means we must update our wardrobes with attire appropriate for traveling and spending more time outside. Good thing Godey’s...

This print is from a vintage godey's bk. In the Fifties Hoops Displaced Crinoline & it is entitled 'Will He Never Come?'

Ever since I discovered the Great Dickens Christmas Fair in San Francisco, attending (or working) the fair has been an annual Christmas tradition. Nothing sets me up for the Christmas spirit like wandering the streets of London in 1840s-1850s clothing, admiring handmade gifts, sampling meat pies, drinking hot buttered rum, singing carols, dancing at Fezziwig's

Womens Dresses from 1850's to 1880's. About 1/10 of the photo's from a disc I bought at a Civil War Re-enactment

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I rather expected that last week’s 1810s Rate the Dress wouldn’t be hugely popular, not in the sense that people wouldn’t like it, but in the sense that it wouldn’t attract lots of comments. It’s not the type of outfit that’s usually super popular in terms of commenting, and it’s a portrait. But, even without a lot of comments we had a lively (if small) discussion anyway. In general the shawl and coral got high marks, the colour scheme got the overall nod of approval, and people were torn on the ruff. But good parts do not necessarily make a good whole, and while many of you enjoyed its understated elegance (to paraphrase Daniel), not everybody was onboard with the full ensemble, so the outfit managed a 7.8 out of 10. (I think it might amuse you to know that I picked the painting because I was thinking of the Bonaparte family as being the Kardashians of the 1800s (powerful, divisive, and in the eyes of some, rather vulgar), and that if this was Caroline, …

This week’s rate the dress was made in Britain from fabric woven in China.