As Usual, All Photos Are From Pinterest.

𝚅𝚎𝚛𝚒𝚍𝚒𝚊𝚗 𝙷𝚞𝚎𝚜 As usual, all photos are from Pinterest.

She was a picture-book beauty … Taller even than her mother, willowy and with a tiny waist, she was the most elegant and 'aristocratic’ looking of the four sisters and exuded a sense of her status from head to toe. People often remarked that she behaved 'like the daughter of an emperor’. Confident with her beauty, with a fixed, almost challenging expression in her eyes, Tatiana could look effortlessly imperious. Her profile was exquisite; with her pale, almost marble skin, lovely dark chestnut hair and a slightly mystical Asiatic look about her wide, tipped-up dark grey eyes, she was naturally photogenic. She loved clothes and carried them with grace and elegance, as well as a slightly coquettish air. But she was very much her mother’s daughter: reserved, inscrutable, less open and spontaneous than her sisters and less inclined to smile…. 

By nature Tatiana was a romantic idealist and a dreamer, but she never let this get in the way of her very practical talents and her sense of balance, which meant she was very focused and at time opinionated about what she wanted. Although younger than Olga she was the more forceful of the two, and her elder sister frequently deferred to her  judgement. Tatiana’s fragile features and figure belied a physical strength and energy that she constantly applied around the home and in organisational skills. 

Helen Rappaport: Ekaterinburg - The Last Days of the Romanovs

𝙰𝚗 𝙸𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚘𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗

Good evening. I am a tailor; I have been for a very long time. I first learned to sew when I was 5, and ever since I've been experimenting with styles, fabrics, eras, and inspirations. For the past few years, I've been designing [and sometimes recreating] gowns and outfits from the 1890s. My favourites are those from the long-gone courts of Russia, and those based on its intricately detailed uniforms. Currently in the works are two silk court dresses, and a recreation of Tatiana's Ulan uniform.

When I'm not lost in the 1890s, I'm making vintage suits, playing with fountain pens [and inks!], collecting antiques, and obsessing over old jewelry.

Shall we proceed? — 𝙼𝚊𝚍𝚊𝚖𝚎 𝚇

My new corset has finally arrived! Now it's time for drafting...

Alexandre Dubois-Drahonet: detail of Female nude, back view (1831)

Les Modes : revue mensuelle illustrée des arts décoratifs appliqués à la femme, no. 5, vol. 1, mai 1901, Paris. Paul-Albert Besnard. — Portrait de Mme X. Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Bibliothèque nationale de France