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| AJ | She/her | 27 | Canadian in the Netherlands | Historical sewing |

[vitariesocks]

just received the best text message I’ve ever had. from my mom

[vitariesocks]

2 pics. no caption

[messed-up-polkadots]

Seeing you answer your tumblr is so funny to me so I'll also say heyyyyyyoooooo

Welcomeeee!! :,) I need to be more active here

[messed-up-polkadots]

Hi 🧍‍♀️

HIIIIIIII 🥰🥰🥰

[leomakeshistory]

Breaking the [remembers the internet doesn’t exist yet] fishwives gossip mill

[leomakeshistory]

[phlebasthebroenician]

Yahoooooooooo!!!!

[bookhobbit]

The first rule of sewing is you can fix anything if you have patience, creativity, and a little bit of extra fabric! The second rule of sewing is AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

[messed-up-polkadots]

I need some else to read the book Imperial Ire written by my friend and author R. M van Breda so we can talk about it because it was really good!

[frostedmagnolias]

Pink Silk Moire Evening Dress

early 1860s

Fashion Museum Bath

[adobe-outdesign]

alright I think these are all the best ones

[urlocalh3ath3n]

L'Art et la mode, January 16, 1909, Paris.

Source: Imp. d'art L. Lafontaine, Paris. National Library of France, Chic à Gigot

[historical-fashion-polls]

which outfit would you rather wear? (1304)

left 🩷

center left 💙

center right ❤️

right 💚

Voting ended onNov 12, 2025

context from the submitter: this image comes from page 288 of the Codex Manesse

submitted by @aceofsorrows 🩷💙

[messed-up-polkadots]

Center right don’t mind if I do!

[intergalacticfop]

This jacket is the result of more than 2 and a half years of work, entirely handsewn! It represents the interest in equestrian and equestrian-inspired clothing as fashionable attire in Europe during the late 17th and into the 18th centuries.

I copied it from a jacket held by the Met Costume Institute, accession number 1981.314.2. When I emailed out to them for more information about the jacket, one of the collections people was even kind enough to pull it out of storage and take some detailed shots of the exterior AND interior (thanks Marci!!!)

The Met dates it to the 2nd quarter of the 18th century which could be true--but there are several features of this jacket that could easily be dated earlier to the late 17th century, like the button size and layout. I plan to mull over this more in a later post. At least, I would definitely place it in the earlier end of that 1725-1750 range. However, I chose to style it for the 1730s/1740s because it's Fun For Me 🙂!

One of the most fun parts was gathering accessories to go with the jacket! I steamed a wool hat blank into the tricorn shape and applied the silver trim, made some detachable undersleeves based on paintings by Pietro Longhi, and threw together a matching neck ribbon as if I was some kind of ornamental poodle

[crabfisher]

Hey OP! I just saw your sakhmet solitaire post, and I learned the same way by brute forcing it! Did you ever try normal windows solitaire and learn that the neopets version is designed to make you lose and click as many times as possible, but the normal version is almost always winnable? (And you can click and drag 🥹)

it's a fun way to learn things from time to time!

Never played solitare outside of neopets because I was playing it exclusively for the neopoints/prizes involved as opposed to love of the game.

But I did have A Lot of people in the comments and tags and all sorts of things tell me that neopets solitaire is The Devils solitaire and I might as well be trying to learn how to play checkers by Rolling Around in Glass and having someone Shoot Me every time they take a piece from me. But I get neopoints / prizes so does it even really matter. I even got a trophy out of it

[fripperiesandfobs]

Robe à la française ca. 1765

From Cora Ginsburg

[stellaluna33]

Historical context is of course very useful for important things like Politics and Science and everything, but will also open your eyes to things like, uh... the way the clothing/textile/crafting industries try to use the word "natural" as an excuse to sell shoddy and bad quality goods and make you think that's normal.

God knows there are worse things going on in the world, but it really pisses me off when I see companies advertising "Real Shell/Pearl buttons!" like that's supposed to be some upscale selling point, and the buttons in question are the thinnest, roughest, most crudely-made buttons in existence... 🙄😒 "But they're made from Natural Materials! You can't expect Natural Materials to look refined and consistent like synthetic ones!" They are lying to you. THEY ARE LYING TO YOU! And I know this because I've seen "real shell buttons" from 100 or even 50 years ago. And most of them are sturdy and smoothly polished, of a consistent thickness, and sometimes even finely carved. The buttons on nice men's dress shirts? Those are the cheap, plastic IMITATIONS of what people expected actual mother-of-pearl buttons to look like! "Natural" isn't an excuse! Your product is cheap and badly and lazily made! And I'm so sick of this, because I see it EVERYWHERE. "Linen-look" has become shorthand for "coarsely woven fabric with visible slubs" and that drives me CRAZY because do you KNOW what kinds of linen I have seen??? Antique linen so light and fine and smooth you can't even SEE the weave unless you magnify it!!! A fragment of a linen damask tablecloth so smooth and glossy, it looks like SILK? 😭 (On that note, "dupioni silk" is so roughly woven that it would have been considered hardly fit to sell a century ago) "This fabric is woven of Natural Materials, so imperfections will be inevitable!" 🙃 No! 😀 You just made it cheaply and sloppily, and that was your choice! 😊

[history-of-fashion]

mid-19th century Velvet dress

(Museo Nacional de Historia, Castillo de Chapultepec)