Faking a Tacky Western Jacket

One of the joys of live theater is that there is always the possibility that something might go catastrophically wrong. … More

Trou in Ten

A lot of sewers are afraid of bifurcated nether-garments. They look more complicated than skirts. I remember wearing bike shorts … More

Nothing makes a pant look as fantastically olde-timey as a fall front. Unfortunately, a real fall front is a pain … More

Somewhere in the Victorian era, people started coming up with ideas for making corsets more comfortable to wear. Gigglishiously ironical … More

Have I mentioned that my show has, by and large, come from Goodwill? Yes, indeed. One of the characters in … More

Oddly enough, I needed 19 pair of Colonial britches to go with my 25 Colonial vests. (Because I had much … More

I needed 25 Colonial-looking vests for 1776. Because I wasn’t sure that I’d get round to making a coat for … More

This one won’t win you any points for historical accuracy or art. It’s more for those times when you need … More

We all know how to make a corset, right? Take a bodice pattern that’s too small, sew a lot of … More

Sometimes, you need to sew a chemise and you don’t really want to spend a lot of time on it. … More