Article Archive for April 2010
The millinery workroom or atelier is the creative laboratory where hat designs are transformed from ideas into reality. See a hat come to life.
The Victorian greenhouse was adapted as a place to socialize — inviting friends for afternoon tea, pondering and marveling at the display of exotic exhibits – the greenhouse became an opportunity for Victorian’s to show …
In the late Victorian era, women typically dressed in knee-length, puffed-sleeve wool dresses – often featuring a sailor collar – worn over bloomers or drawers trimmed with ribbons and bows. The bathing costume was typically …
The bathing machine was like a sentry-box on wheels; it was about six feet in length and width, and about eight feet high, with a peaked roof. It was set far apart from the bathing places …












