time is a flat circle

🧵🪡she/her, costume goblin 🪡🧵 🌸Pre-Raphaelite at heart🌸 🪻vintage style not vintage values🪻

[leomakeshistory]

Intro post!!

Made it back to tumblr as a Meta refugee after a 10 year hiatus.

I love sewing, especially historically inspired pieces and costumes. My favorite eras are Edwardian and Regency, but I’m interested in all eras. Not limited to history either, but I ADORE history-inspired fantasy costumes, and I dress in a historybounding style most days!

Above is my early 1900s walking outfit, based mostly on historical patterns and fully sewn by me.

I’d love to make some new costuming friends!!

[theinternetarchive]

Leaf shaped brush washer Asian; Chinese, Jingdezhen c. 1723–35 Porcelain with camellia-leaf green glaze; overall: 19.7 cm

[leomakeshistory]

​leaf shaped trinkets you will ALWAYS be famous

[museum-of-artifacts]

Parchment holes in manuscript repaired using embroidery circa 1417, currently in University Library Uppsala, Sweden

[handmadehistorypodcast]

What wait WHAT

[mydonkeyfeet]

I love seeing parchment / vellum mended with stitching! Here are some more.

[frostedmagnolias]

House Dress of Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna

c. 1905-1907

Hermitage Museum

[nineteenthcenturyportraits]

Portrait of Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain, Duchess of Montpensier, 1847, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873)

[vintagefashionplates]

c. 1840 beautiful purple silk dress with a pleated wrap-over bodice with self-fabric piping trim on the sleeves. @metmuseum collection.

[clove-pinks]

Soirée by Paul Gavarni, November 10, 1836.

[vintageeurope]

Zandvoort, Netherlands 1890/1900

[vintageeurope]

Săcele, Romania 1905

[frostedmagnolias]

Evening Dress

c. 1900

Pale green silk chiffon and velvet; S-curve silhouette; appliqué of plant pattern; sequin and cord embroidery with water's-edge pattern.

by House of Worth

The Kyoto Costume Institute

[jeannepompadour]

Lady Ottoline Morrell by Philip Edward Morrell, 1909

[luxus-aeterna]

Essence by Vanity Tintype.

Tintype, 2026

[luxus-aeterna]

Not in the habit of riding, but the habit of dressing well. | inst.

[historical-fashion-polls]

which outfit would you rather wear? (1899)

left

right

Voting ended onMay 3

submitted by @edwardian-girl-next-door 🤍🩶🖤

[the-almost-fashion-historian]

court presentation dress, 1896 unknown designer

this dress is made of silk and was worn for a presentation in the English court

this dress can be found in: the Metropolitan Museum of Art

[naldibutnice]

Alla Nazimova by Sarony Studio, 1909

[frostedmagnolias]

House of Worth Gown

c. 1880

silk, metal, glass

New Canaan Museum & Historical Society