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Website Recommendation: Fashion in the Age of Bridgerton

| July 27, 2022

If you’re interested in the Regency period, particularly the fashion of the time, check out Fashion in the Age of Bridgerton: Plates from the Lady’s Magazine. It’s a fantastic resource for writers of historical fiction that happens to coincide with this time period, but it’s also of note if you’re interested in the history of […]

When the Clothes Make the Story

| January 27, 2020

In one of the games I play, which is a sci-fi heist game, we’ve got a couple of characters who fancy themselves as fashion designers. I threw out the challenge that my character wanted a dress that mashes up Sarah’s dress from Labyrinth with rutilated quartz (as pictured here). I could envision exactly what I […]