The Magpie’s Wardrobe

Clothing, Jewelry, Shoes & Accessories, Costumes, Sewing, Weaving, Cosplay, Mending & Armor. A Queer Positive Space 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Main blog : Introvertia

[ceausescue]

amateurish first effort

[milksockets]

'claire mccardell dress in wide-stripe silk/cotton faille, with brass hooks + eyes, 1955' in fifty years of fashion: new look to now - valerie steele (1997)

[milksockets]

'stephen burrows calf-length a-line dress in wool doubleknit, fall 1970' in fifty years of fashion: new look to now - valerie steele (1997)

[thegorgonist]

MINNOW PIN! TINY SILVER FISHIE! I'm in love with how these turned out. I want to wear like 10 on a jacket and have a school of fish with me wherever I go. Hard to photograph but they look amazing in person! Sometimes a simple design really stands out~~~~ In my shop!

[fashionsfromhistory]

"Paris" Evening Coat

Paul Poiret (Paris, France)

1919

The MET (Object Number: 2005.207)

[margotmeanie]

✨🍾✨ Best of 2015 ✨🍾✨

I did my full archive, but I kept meaning to do up my favs.

[therealsurechigai]

A flexible rapier made during the 19th century in Toledo, Spain.

[joeinct]

Portrait of a young woman with a letter, Photo attributed to Roger Fenton (British, 1819–1869), c. 1856

[dreamyvixen]

lacloche frères gold mesh spider evening bag with gold, platinum and pearl. 1920.

[cryptic-curation]

This sick bleach shirt I made. Something to showcase my undying love for prehistoric cave art.

Some of the bleach burned thru the shirt bc this was my first time bleaching anything ever, but it kinda adds to it.

[minyitheraccoon]

Bonne Maison socks

[jaeausten]

Costume Appreciation: Mozart's Costumes in Amadeus.

[milksockets]

"wonder.land" in costume at the national theatre (2019)

[solarpunk-century]

saving what you have: visible mending

Visible mending is a way to fix clothes with holes in a decorative way. Instead of trying to make the mend invisible as possible, it can be fun and creative to hi light the tears and holes with stitching that adds to the garment. I think this method is super cool to repair clothes you may really want to keep but also make more beautiful.

There are many techniques to mending clothes and here are some popular techniques that will help you save your clothes and also reduce your consumption of fast-fashon!

darning

The embroidery technique used to repair holes in fabric by using running stitches and thread woven in-between those stitches to repair a hole. If you’re interested in employing this stitch, check out this awesome darning tutorial by Evelyn Wood!

sashiko

This type of traditional Japanese mending practice is used to reinforce the strength of fabric as well as decorate. It is a great solution for mending holes with patches and well to reinforce thinning fabric! For learning the basics of Sashiko there is a wonderful beginners tutorial by Benzie Design.

patches

Patches are very versatile when used for repairing clothes. You can sew it over a hole in your fabric or you can also so the patch in the inside to have it peek out. There is a great tutorial for custom DIY patches by wastelesscrafts and Creating with misp has a tutorial on mending with a peek-through patch. 

happy mending!

[historical-nonfiction]

Flora Thundercloud Funmaker Bearheart, in a studio portrait in Black River Falls, Wisconsin, around 1910.

Bearheart was a member of the Ho-Chunk. Today, the estimated 12,000 Ho-Chunk are split between two federally recognized tribes, one in Nebraska and one in Wisconsin.

[queershakespeare]

replica by alessio carnevali // st. mary magdalene from the santa lucia triptych, painted c1470 by carlo crivelli

[lunacylover]

[lamus-dworski]

Polish Winged Hussar’s armour at the Polish Army Museum in Warsaw.