I recently acquired an antique Edwardian lingerie dress (translation: a lacy white cotton dress suitable for afternoon wear) that I plan on wearing to an afternoon tea. However, how can one go to a…

My Edwardian outfit is now really done! I finished my hat last week, but didn’t manage to get the hairstyle completely right on the first try. This weekend I tried again, with a little more s…

by Kendra Van Cleave, First published for the July/August 2008 issue of Finery Hairstyles and headwear are inextricably linked in almost every era; hairstyles affect the shape and placement of the hat and vice versa. The “pompadour” popular in the 1890s belied its name. Rather than a large amount of volume, hair was dressed loosely but still simply and close […]

Here's how I went about "cobbling" a big, fancy, Edwardian hat to wear to tea with my dress-up group, The Atlanta Time Travelers. Sure, you could buy an antique hat. But this was more fun. And if I don't count my time or blood loss in the equation, much less expensive! It's not difficult and requires no advanced sewin

9 free antique patterns for Edwardian & WW1 tam o'shanter hats! The Edwardian tam o'shanter was the everday hat of Edwardian girls and sports hat of Edwardian women. 'A small woollen cap [...] which only needs two hairpins to keep it in place, is extremely becoming, and suitable either for summer or winter.'

The Edwardian era saw the rise of ready-to-wear clothes, was the height of the Belle Époque, and saw the influence on fashion of the suffragettes and dress reform reach its conclusion. As the Edwar…

Summer day dress in white linen composed by dress and jacket made up entirely of cotton trimmed with lace entre-deux and embroidery soutache white. Bib with guimpe in white macrame lace. Straw hat trimmed by ivory taffeta ribbons in ivory and beige, flowers

'Sorbet' evening dress, satin, Paul Poiret, French, 1912

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What homesteaders wore at the turn of the century reflected Edwardian fashions, with long skirts, high-necked blouses, and enormous hats.

The Edwardian era was once elegantly described as, a "leisurely time when women wore picture hats and did not vote, when the rich were not ashamed to live

If you owned this photograph, wouldn’t you want to know more about the young woman wearing the outrageous butterfly hat? I have looked at this image for years, but all I knew was that the photographer had captured my grandmother Arline Allen Kinsel in a very flattering window-seat pose. Arline’s white muslin dress and huge…