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...And Wear It Well...
These pages are to be a collection of tips, tricks, and dirty tricks for Historic Costuming that I've picked up over the last few years. The primary focus of these pages will be the Elizabethan era, roughly the period between 1550 and 1600, of fashion. As I do most of my costuming for renessaince faires, you will probably see a bit of favoritism towards English styles, but I do like to play with other national influences, so I will include some variations on the more common costume componants. I prefer to work with upper middle class through noble costume - it's more fun. Nothing against peasants and all, but, well, the upper classes just had cooler clothes.
All original information, artwork, and photography herein copyright Melissa Heischberg, 1999. Free for use by private individuals, but not to be published, distributed, or otherwise used directly for commercial purposes without my direct written consent.
If you have any questions or comments regarding either the SewHappy site, or Elizabethan Costuming in general, please feel free to mail me.
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10.15.00 - Added a few things to prevent the banner bot from eating parts of my pages. Things should be working better now. Also reorganized the site - some bookmarked links may be broken now. Apologies - just trying to keep myself a little saner....
4.15.00 - Site Identity changed to Sempstress.
2.11.00 - Added Doublet info. Noticed that a bunch of stuff disappeared from the What's New? section. Oops.
2.5.00 - Added Diary of a Work in Progress
11.29.99 - Added Design Sketches section content.
11.30.99 - Added Farthingale information, updated some out of date links, and tried to get all of the frames to play nice.
11.1.99 - Converted site to frames to compensate for FortuneCity's recent change of banner policies; did some general cleanup about the site.
10.14.99 - Added Pattern drafting overview. Will add pictures to it later.
10.12.99 - Redid Site Index and added two articles and the Embellishments page.
9.25.99 - Added Middle Class and German Noble to Costume Gallery.
9.14.99 - Added Counter and Guestbook services, courtesy of BraveNet
9.10.99 - Dumped half of my bookmark file into Other Resources and added
7.16.99 - Added Master Bodice Pattern template
7.16.99 - Added information on Sleeves
a little rant on Variety.
