Isabella's Project Diary

A couple of months ago, I wrote on some  common myths  about Victorian and Edwardian bathing suits.  While doing the research, I fell in lov...

As summer approaches (as hard as that is to believe when it's 50F outside!), I've been thinking about summer fashions and the beach ...

The Challenge:   December –  Re-Do :  It’s the last challenge of the year, so let’s keep things simple by re-doing any of the previous 11 c...

A lot of us have talked about making the ridiculous sleeved dresses of the Romantic era for ages.   Some were actually starting on t...

I thought I wrote this up last year when I was investigating "Swiss Waists" and what they were really called, but I didn't.  ...

http://butterick.mccall.com/b5232-products-7494.php?page_id=385 I was going through my patterns and came across this one that I bought a...

Enough on the stays as awesome as they are.  Let's start with the most basic of undies, the chemise.  Yes, there is a specific Empire st...

Over the past few days I've done a lot of research on the "Empire" style in the early 1890's.  There is still a ton of res...