cathy.hay@harmanhay.com
  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Facebook
  • RSS
Cathy Hay
  • The Peacock Dress
  • About
  • Portfolio
  • Blog
Select Page
How to Make Do and Mend, Victorian Style

How to Make Do and Mend, Victorian Style

Oct 4, 2018

I love wearing vintage, but sometimes I feel bad about wearing really old clothes… especially if an accident happens. 😖

My favourite vintage dress shirt has been hanging in my sewing room with a 3″ L-shaped rip for months… and I finally decided there was only one thing to do… mend it the same way its original owner might have done…

Recent Posts

  • How to raise the value of sewing: what you can do
  • How to be brave
  • How to master insertion lace… in pictures
  • What happened to all those once-worn Worth gowns?
  • How to use those beautiful antique sewing patterns

Tags

20th century couture 1955 Dior evening gown avatar business Christian Dior corsetry couragemylove finding customers handsewing House of Worth mending motivation research sewing Victorian vintage

Archives

  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • June 2017
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • May 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • April 2014
  • March 2014
  • January 2014
  • November 2013
  • October 2013

Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered by WordPress