Historical Costume Lover Gifts

Infantas Around Town

The Grecian Bend - Women's Fashion

"Keep in mind, Earl, that we're creating a look that will last for a hundred and fifty years."

Lady on a horse with her hat pinned to her hair

'I need your honest opinion...does my butt look big enough in this?'

Strong Female Lead

Sir Joseph Porter, KCB, First Lord of the Admiralty HMS Pinafore

Victorian Lady

Blue Dress and Feather

Sir Joseph Porter, KCB, First Lord of the Admiralty HMS Pinafore

A Macaroni in 1772

Blue Dress

Koko pleads with the Mikado

Lady in a pretty dress

I want to hold your hand

Women's Fashion

"Is there a seamstress present?"

Servant running after a couple dressed up for a fancy ball with the door-key

"I predict that men's fashions will remain relatively stable throughout the next century and a half, whereas women's will evolve continuously, and with the speed and illogic of a juiced-up tribe of rampaging Darwinian monkeys."

Ambrogio

Two Victorian men dancing

Iron clad sailors

"So have you been watching Bridgerton?"

A Head-Dress in 1777

Classical Fashion Changed Rapidly and Distincly the Very Moment That Jerky Teenagers Were Invented.

Flying Dutchman

Duchess

Macbeth

A design, showing how the pretty hoods worn by ladies might be made useful as well as ornamental.

Edwardians.

Paris Fashions, Winter 1863-64

Feathers and Cape

'It's not mine.'

Mikhail Lermontov

Lady in a blue and white dress