I was just reading a fun article (for a somewhat less fun assignment) called "Embodying imperial spectacle: dressing Lady Curzon, Vicer...

First of all, HUGH LAURIE. Second of all, why is she so upset? She has Hugh Laurie. Third of all, her feet probably just hurt from running d...

How fun! I've been going through a big Scarlet Pimpernel phase, and reading a book about fashion in the french revolution. In honor of t...

Apparently I have a regency jumper obsession. There aren't that many examples, but I'm finding them really interesting. Here is an e...

This week I am doing a baroque dance week at the Longy School of Music. This is neat, since I have never done any baroque dancing before. It...

I am not an 18th century kind of girl. It is a lovely time period, yes, but I am firmly rooted in the 19th, and in the 1860s in particular. ...

As a rather last-minute plan (mother's car accident had me thinking we wouldn't be able to go, but she got a rental car - she is als...

I don't listen to modern music frequently. I used to hear the current songs on radio on the bus to school, but college has fixed that. I...

Here are a couple paintings by Gustave Jean Jacquet of an especially girly and adorable tricorn hat. Very pretty, I think. I made a couple o...

The artist is Jeanne Bole, and the painting makes me think of my friend the drummer from yesterday's post. Tricorn hats are really a lot...

This is my very cool friend. Among her many other fantastic artistic endeavors, she is a drummer with the Lincoln minute men. Doesn't sh...