Summer Ensemble

Summer Ensemble

The jacket is linen with many hand done elements including the buttonholes and pockets. I based it heavily on the extant example at Colonial Williamsburg and another at the Kent museum. I was going to draft it myself But I lost my book so I just altered my tailcoat pattern. It was really cool to make a garment more specific to where I’m from. It can be worn with or without a vest.

The breeches are made with cotton with a slight sheen. I think it’s glazed cotton. The buckles I got from Burnley and Trowbridge and I like them a lot.

Both fabrics and the cravat fabric were acquired second hand.

The straw hat is vintage from roughly 1950s

“Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

And falsehoods the truths of other people.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”

-Also Oscar Wilde (An Ideal Husband)

“Thin brows are back in” “skinny jeans are back” “wolfcuts are out” “this style of eyeshadow is soo trendy right now” “big asses are out, slim figures are in”

Hey do you guys ever make your own decisions or form your own ideas on how you would personally like to look that’s not based around what’s currently being sold to you. Is that not possible

True story: when I have to pee and struggle to unbuckle and pull down my pants at the same time I'm pulling up the long-line binder, I think about men from the 1810s who, thanks to fashion choices, had a more complicated time urinating.

Worth it, fellas!

hey, don't cry. night of the 26th may, ok?

Stereoview of a 19th century dentist in action, c. 1865