Women's Fashion

Needlework: Stitching the gap between Jane Austen and now

With fast fashion taking all of the hard graft out of our hands, needlework skills are in decline.

A stitch of Austenian inspiration

On finding fashion inspiration in the pages of Austen.

Mad about Mob Caps

Caps of all shapes and sizes had long been in use by men and women as fashion accessories and protection from the elements. There was an added benefit to the Regency miss, which Jane Austen wrote a...

Changing Tastes in Georgian Jewelry

A look at gems, paste and brooches

18th & 19th Century Whitework Embroidery

Gorgeous treatment for the plainest of fabrics...