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Many photos and some more explanation about the outfit can be found on my costuming blog, here.

But here's a video, you need to click on it:

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I haven't been on a horse for 15 years, and it is over 30 years since I last did any actual riding. But I didn't slide off, despite having no saddle and sitting with both legs on one side of the horse.

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Last Saturday Vendela (younger twin) was going to go to the horse that she takes care of and take photos of me in my regency riding outfit. But the weather forecast said rain all day. It actually didn't rain all day, but we didn't know that beforehand.

But today we are finally going, so now I am going to dig out my clothes and get dressed. I also need to pack normal clothes, because I am walking home the 5 kilometres from her place to where we live afterwards. She's picking me up by car though, so that I can get dressed at home.
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As you probably know I use my blogger-blog as a sort of web site. Because it was too much work to update my old web site. And lately I have been busy, endign up with pages for my:

a) late 18th century open robe

b) somewhat insane Italian 1330s outfit from striped brocade

c) brand new summer working outfit from 1370s Italy. With short sleeves!

d) Italian 16th century sottana from 2008-2009

c) mi-parti early 14th century Italian brocade gown.

I may even have a go at another "backlog" costume page today, we'll see.

I have , however, given 7 two hour long lectures as well as planning calsses and grading tests this week, so I am rather tired.
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But I finished the dress on Wednesday. I'm wearing a modern bra and no petticoat under it.

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 Anna and I had decided to make another late 18th-early 19th century outing to Gunnebo House. We invited other local empire style enthusiasts, but unfortunately no-one could make it this time. I had bought a cheap croquet set and made a bag for it to make it easier to carry on the bus.

We had a good time, though none of us turned out to be very good at croquet - Annas was definitely best of us two

The other visitors were very entertained by us and I'm sure we are in many people's cameras now. I got one of the persons who talked to us to take a photo of both of us in action:



After playing a few rounds we went to the cafe for tea and cake. It was very full, because they have open air theatre from Thursday to Sunday every week and lots of people order a meal before or after the show.

Having done this three times now we think that two hours is about as long as you want to hang out in the gardens and that we should plan our events accordingly.  And include a swim in the nearby lake afterwards  - it was lovely this time too.

More photos over here.

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 Today the various university departments here in Gothenburg had a chance to present themselves to high school students and I had been asked my my department, the Department of Historical Studies, to represent history - and to dress up for it. Since the archaeologist showed a 12th century skull we decided that it was better with another time period than medieval. So I put on one of my regency outfits. It was a bit tricky, since hubby wasn't at home to help me with the ties in the back of the gown. I managed, but couldn't really hide the ties properly by myself. Luckily I ran into hubby downtown who not only took a photo of me, but also helped my with the ties.
 
On my way out, channeling my inner Mrs Bennet.



Selfie outside our house, on my way to the tram.


The photo Rickard took outside a part of the university library.



 
After the presentation I met Valeria and when we got home I made hummus and then went to the gym for 45 minutes before getting back and making the rest of our dinner consisting of salad, hummus, bread and falafel.
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Taking advantage of working from home I got dressed and dragged Rickard outside to get some photos of my redingote and bonnet for my costuming blog.



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Interesting colours provided by the strong winter sun.

More photos here.
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My friend katarian came over for tea and sewign and since I didn't have any othre project to work on I cut out, and actually finished, a bonnet to wear with my wool redingote.



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I hope that I will be able to get some photos of me wearing them together this week, With better light, this is really harsh.
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 It can be found here, with lots more photos.


I love this photo, but I'm very pretty in many of them, very good for my self esteem.




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I will write a page about in my costuming blog, but not right now, because I am very tired and don't have the energy to sit much by the computer. I also have visitors, and I've already spent too much time beign distracted by the computer.


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Yesterday I finished the muslin gown, and even managed to take photos of it before rushing down town to meet som friends and discuss our plans for today's big anti-nazi rally.

I wrote a page about it over at my costuming blog, with lots more pictures and info.




Today the nazis will march through Gothenburg, so it's unlikely that I will spend much time thinking about costuming, but I have lots of plans for garments to be worn with this wardrobe staple of the late 18th - early 19th century.




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Now I am going to attach the sleeves. Before it's too late to use the sewing machine.




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 Anna had to sew all the night before (she stopped at 5 am, slept three hours and continued sewing), but her dress got finished except for trimming. I made small chicken pies and bought fruit and almond biscuits for uss, which was very nice to eat on the lawn outside the beautiful 1796 summer house of Gunnebo.

I've put lots of photos over at my costuming blog, including a photo of me not wearing anything ;) After the picnic Anna and I walked through a lake and had a swim before going home.

I won't clog up this post with lots of photos, since you can find them here, but here's two. 



 



Tomorrow I will re-make another modern skirt, so that I have something to wear to work now that term has started again.

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It needs ties and trimming, but otherwise it's pretty nice and will work well with my velvet spencer I think. It's from raspberry pink silk shantung. I had hoped that there would be enough velvet for a hat, but there was only small scraps left when I had finsihed the new collar.

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 I finished the velvet spencer on Tuesday, but I was not happy with how the collar looked. I had scooped out the neck too much in the back. So yesterday I ripped off the collar and started on a new version. It won't solve the whole issue, but hopefully it will look better.  It is now past 8 am, so I think that I can safely start sewing it. And then work, of course, but since I only work part time I can arrive rather late at work.

Anna has finished her transitional stays and they look amazing on her, and yesterday we worked on a toile for the bodice of her gown, which means that she will be finished with her outfit for the picnic on Saturday. I will make the picnic food for both of us, so that she can sew the whole Saturday morning too.
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 Well, actually I love velvet, but not sewing it, my entire kitchen is covered with raspberry pink lint.

Apart from making lint I am going to make a spencer for Saturday's picnic. Just to ensure that the weather stays nice and warm. 

I really want to start on it now, but since I'm using the sewing machine for htis and live in a flat I think I ought to wait until after 8 am.
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 Well, it appears that this is by far my most popular post on my costuming blog - can't see why ;) 



In other news I started on a spencer from velvet remnants yesterday. I was disappointed to find that there wasn't enough for long sleeves, but accepted this as you must accept what can't be changed.
The I found some more scraps of the same velvet and now I have to decide whether I should piece the sleeves at elbow length to make them full length or not.

That decision will probably be postponed to this evening though, since I have my first lecture this semester today and has stuff to do at work before that. Yesterday I suffered from quite a lot of anxiety about this, but now I feel much better, despite the fact that the department just moved and I don't exactly know where I am to teach.

Oh, and Anna loved her blue silk bonnet.


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Yeah, you all know me: I have a tendency to get very enthusiastic about new things, so what I did yesterday is not so strange: I started on a pair of late 18th century transitional stays.

Anna has chosen the very late 18th century as her period for our upcoming regency picnic which of course fueled my enthusiasm. Since I had already bought white thin cotton to make a round gown to be worn either separately or with an open gown, the idea was there already. It was mainly the timing that was affected, since I had thought about making this later in the autumn.

Well, that was not to be: having run out of hand sewing projects that I could work on in the evenings - the embroidered smock I am making for  Valeria requires good lighting and eyes that are not tired - I needed another project. I started with the skirt for the round gown, which will have two rows of very pretty coral pink silk tabby ribbon around the hem. I could not, however start on the bodice before I had decided whether to wear it with my slightly later regency stays, or make a new, late 18th century pair.

And yesterday I decided to go for it. I dug out some strong linen for the stays, my just a little bit too large effigy stays to have some idea of size, and an extremly sturdy polycotton twill that I use for mock-ups for stays.

I also looked around on the internet and found several useful blog posts to help me figure out what I wanted to do.

These were the ones I looked at the most, two of my old friends here in the costuming world, and a new for me blog.

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Katherine's dress site

Rococo Atelier

Most of these mentioned the book Corsets by Jill Salen, and I have ordered it on ILL, but of course I couldn't wait for that to arrive. So by studying the pictures on Rococo Atelier, which showed both her version with cups, and the original pattern with a gusset I came up with a pattern that I tried with enough success to go on to cutting the linen.

I got as far as making all the lacing holes on one front piece yesterday, and the rest this morning, and I have now also sewn all the boning channels on machine. Yesterday I was sorely tempted to make it all by hand, but sense prevailed, I have lots of real life work and many other projects to work on.

Since I don't have any white bias tape at home, and I'm not that interested in making some I am going to take a walk downtown and get it, as well as catch some pokemon.






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 Yesterday I came up with and idea for Anna's birthday present - she doesn't expect one, but she's one of my best friends so of course she should get one. Since she earns about double as much as I do buying stuff seemed pointless, so I decided to make her a bonnet for the Regency picnic. Then she won't have to worry about that.
Her dress is c. 1800 and will be made from yellow silk with blue ribbons to trim it, so I dug through my plastic tub with silk, and found some scraps from a lovely blue habotai that is now, with the help of some linen and fusible interlining (for the brim) a soon finished very pretty bonnet. All it needs is ties, and I will make those tomorrow.

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