Costume Historian

For anyone with an interest in the history of clothing, dress, textiles, lace and embroidery, paricularly of the early modern period, 1550-1750

Friday, 19 December 2025

June Swann (1929-2025): a personal appreciation by Pat Poppy

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  I first met June Swann in the early 1970s when I was a young and new member of the Costume Society. June was already the doyen of shoe h...
Thursday, 18 December 2025

Boothose and boot hose tops (and canons)

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  Boothose One of the things about the seventeenth century fashion for turned over tops to boots was that people had boothose. Boothose, a...
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