Kategorie: 1870 – 1890 – Bustle

21. Juli 2023

The Dress in the Conservatory – Part 2

After more than two years I finally finished this project and I am so happy to be finished Sometimes I start a project and somewhere along the line I loose interest or something does not work out as I want to. This can be discouraging and most of the time it’s better to halt the […]

23. Juni 2021

The Dress in the Conservatory – Part 1

Picture Credit: Amber Tree on Flickr A few weeks ago I was browsing on pinterest and I saw a painting in which I fell in love immediateley. It was love at first sight and I got a fuzzy feeling and I knew I had to recreate the dress. The painting is from the dutch painter […]

21. September 2019

Historic Steam Train Adventure: ‚Kuckucksbähnel‘ in germany

On my this years trip to germany I was in Hanover and also, like every year at my aunts house near Mannheim. (This is also where I stayed last year when I had an internship at the Nationaltheater Mannheim – a very big theatre in Mannheim). Since Nicole, a fellow costumer, lives in the same […]

17. August 2019

historical picnic in Bad Ischl

Bad Ischl, a small town in the heart of austria, celebrates every year the birthday of Emperor Franz Josef I. Bad Ischl was and still is one of the most famous health resorts in austria and the Emperor visited the town almost every year in summer. Since I visited my very good friend Magda in […]

10. August 2019

Sommerfrische – A visit to Demel

This year our yearly ‚Sommerfrische‘ happend to be in Vienna. I was one of the two organisers since I live here. 🙂 On the first day of the Sommerfrische we payed a visit to one of the most famous coffee houses in Vienna: The beautiful Café Demel. This coffee house was founded in 1786 and […]

3. August 2019

A day in Opatija – Seaside bustle (1875)

About two weeks before my this years summer vacation I decided to finally sew my seaside bustle dress. I bought the fabric in may but I was super duper lazy and didn’t think about the dress because ‚I still have enough time, I don’t need to start now‘ Well..I did have enough time because I […]

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