Skirting the Issue

Petticoats By Kass Mc Gann History Possibly the most ubiquitous female garment in every time period is the skirt. Allied so closely to femininity, “skirt” became a slang term for women in the 1930s. But it was not always so. At its beginning, the word “skirt” didn’t refer to a female garment at all. The…

By Lisette BC Abbott Linen. The word alone can be intimidating if you’re not a seamstress or tailor. It conjures up exotic locales, perhaps with the ocean’s waves lapping at the coastline, while the sun brilliantly illuminates the pearlescent white caps of the waves. Or, at least that what it does for me. I come…

By Lisette BC Abbott Let me ask you a question: what do you think of when you’re dressing in the morning? Do you think of whether or not your outfit matches? Or whether or not it becomes you? Or whether or not you’d like to lose some weight so you can wear a smaller size?…

By Masha Karpushina To freely explore the oceans of the past, tell the story of vast forgotten cultures, filter the richness of ancient knowledge through my own vision, to introduce myself to intricate delicacies of historical detail, which on any other occasion would have remained closed- feels tempting. By all means, bear with me, as…

Is it true that you can’t make historically accurate garments that fit a modern body? That’s exactly what I asked a historical specialist Kass Mc Gann and this is what she had to say : Once upon a time, when I first got interested in historical clothing, someone told me that you couldn’t copy existing…