Nehelenia designs

Posted Jun 2, 2007 at 12:09 CEST in Costumers & web shops, Fashion, Links, and Photos.

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Nehelenia designs
Historical costumes, mostly 18th century.

EDIT: Has new address: http://www.historicalclothing.net

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Bordello party

Posted Jun 1, 2007 at 16:00 CEST in Fashion, Flickr, and Photos.

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Click the picture to go to a flickr set with fantastic pictures from an 18th century bordello-themed party in Paris.

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Barry Lyndon

Posted Jun 1, 2007 at 14:28 CEST in Movies and television and Photos.

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Barry Lyndon
I have attempted to watch this movie twice on TV, never getting past the first half hour before completely losing interest as I find it violently boring. After seeing pictures from the movie and reading about it, thinking “how could a movie with this stuff in it possibly be boring?!”, I was determined to watch it in its entirety.

Now I’ve watched it, and I still found it the most boring movie ever. Not only boring, but I disliked pretty much every character, especially Barry himself. I couldn’t concentrate on it all and had to do other stuff while watching it to get through it at all. The first part of it is all country people and military men, which doesn’t interest me at all, but later in the movie there are some very nice costumes. I have to say they’re not interesting or plentiful enough to watch a movie this boring though.

On the other hand I know many people love this movie and consider it a masterpiece , so don’t take my word for it being horrible. See some more film stills after the cut.

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Movie sites

Posted Jun 1, 2007 at 11:44 CEST in Fashion, Links, Movies and television, and Photos.

The costumer’s guide to movie costumes
A site with pictures of 18th century costumes from movies.

Muxa’s gallery
Lots of pictures from and related to Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette movie.

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Amadeus

Posted May 31, 2007 at 21:33 CEST in Movies and television, People, and Photos.

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Amadeus by Milos Forman may not be all that accurate when it comes to costuming, or anything else for that matter, but really, who cares in this case. To me it’s one of the best movies ever, with amazing actors, and the overall feel and look is fantastic. There are four more pictures after the cut.

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18th century weeks at Skansen, Sweden

Posted May 31, 2007 at 17:33 CEST in Events and Swedish events.

This July Skansen will have “18th century weeks” with costumes, concerts, dance and more. The dates are July 14-15, 21-22 and 28-29. This is what the Skansen website says about it:

1700-talsveckor på Skogaholm

Sång, musik, dans, poesi, vimmel och lekar på temat 1700-tal blir det i området i och kring Skogaholms herrgård. 14 – 15 juli, 21 – 22 juli samt 28 – 29 juli. På programmet dräktvisning av 1700-tals dräkter, visning av tidstypisk mat samt dans och lekar. Konserter och populärföreläsningar.

I’m most definitely going, I hope it will be good!

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The Kyoto Costume Institute

Posted May 31, 2007 at 00:06 CEST in Databases, Fashion, Links, Museums, and Photos.

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The Kyoto Costume Institute
Lots of photos of actual 18th century clothes.

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Historical costumes by Bjarne Drews

Posted May 30, 2007 at 22:47 CEST in Costumers & web shops, Fashion, Links, and Photos.

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Historical costumes by Bjarne Drews
Absolutely amazing costumes and embroidery. He also has another website with some more things: http://home0.inet.tele.dk/drewscph

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Malmö museer

Posted May 30, 2007 at 20:11 CEST in Exhibitions, Fashion, Flickr, Museums, and Photos.

I’m not sure this exhibition is still there, but earlier this year I visited Malmö museer, in Malmö, Sweden, and they had a small exhibition with a few 18th century clothes and objects.

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Livrustkammaren

Posted May 30, 2007 at 20:01 CEST in Exhibitions, Fashion, Flickr, Museums, and Photos.

Livrustkammaren, or the royal armory, is a great museum located inside the Swedish royal castle. They have some great 18th century clothes and things in their permanent exhibition, and at the moment they’re having an exhibition about shoes, many of which are from the 1700s. The rest of their stuff is fantastic as well though, one of my favourite museums.

More info can be found at their website.

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Dance gallery

Posted May 30, 2007 at 19:30 CEST in Links.

Early dance gallery
The gallery of some dance society. Lots of it is baroque and other time periods, but there are some 18th century costumes there as well. Make sure to click the “old gallery” link at the top.

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Fashion-related links

Posted May 30, 2007 at 19:18 CEST in Costumers & web shops, Fashion, and Links.

La couturière parisienne
Really great sites with lots of pictures and information. Has a great How To section.

Period makeups
This site shows photos of makeup from 18th century movies.

Durán Textiles AB
Great site that sells wonderful reproductions of 18th century fabrics. Also has lots of photos and a great newsletter. Too expensive for me but I love looking at the site.

Sarah Juniper
Handmade shoes. Pretty much the only site I’ve seen so far that sells 18th century shoes that aren’t boring simple black leather.

Topsy Turvy Design
Hat maker who has some fantastic 18th century hats.

Nordstjernan
Amazing 18th century outfits. The text is in Swedish only but if you don’t know Swedish you can probably still figure out how to see the photos.

The costumes of Marie Antoinette
A site mainly about the costumes from Marie Antoinette movies, but there are also some photos of actual 18th century clothes, as well as lots of photos from 18th century movies in general.

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18th century society links

Posted May 30, 2007 at 18:59 CEST in Links, Societies, and Swedish societies.

Gustafs skål
Swedish 18th century society. Great site with lots of information and photos. Also has a calendar with upcoming 18th century related events in Sweden, and a great links archive.

Lumières
I’m not sure if this is the site for the entire society, or just for one of it’s events, but it has some nice photos in the gallery section.

Les menus plaisirs
Not exactly a society, but a performance company. Lots of great photos and a newsletter. Even some videos!

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Flickr group

Posted May 30, 2007 at 18:37 CEST in Fashion, Flickr, Links, and Photos.

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I have a flickr group called 18th century fashion. It’s not terribly active but pretty good so far.

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Welcome

Posted May 30, 2007 at 18:25 CEST in The blog.

Welcome to the blog. I hope someone will find it interesting! Feel free to comment on any entry with more 18th century related tips and links.

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