The Day Draweth Nigh....

The Long Awaited Photo Session...

P.Sandby - the dress we've based out Yellow Linen Anglais on.

In less than 2 days time, HandBound costumes is yet once more dragging bags of costumes down to a local photo studio to have things dressed onto mannequins and professionally photographed. Phew!

It seems such a simple thing as all the costumes are already finished and yet it's been a mass of work.
- We've chopped a lady mannequin in half for the Stay Shots.
- We've ordered a new lady mannequin that has a squishier body (uh...hoping the softer frame will take a better liking to Stays).
- We've tidied, ironed, brushed down and prepared all the garments that are hanging around and waiting for this auspicious moment.
- And also, perhaps rather foolishly, started a Plain Man's Coat for the occasion. (We're hand sewing as we speak)

Our Hope is by the weekend (yes THIS weekend - whooo!) our website and other various selling sites, will be updated with no less than 7 new garments:

The McCord Stays

- A Pink Stripe Short Sack.
- A Silk and Linen Quilted Petticoat.
- A Floral Cotton Anglais.
- A Yellow Linen Anglais with Stomacher and Petticoat.
- And an original Silk Sack based on a gown from the V&A.
- Our version of the McCord Stays.
- A pair of Front Lacing Grey Damask Stays.
- ...and possibly this jacket if we get it finished in time!!!

The original of our grey Damask Stays

Also some of our old favourites will get a spruce up and some better photos taken - poor loves, they've been putting up with good old wooden floorboarding photographs. There is something wonderfully exciting about listing new items up online: the nervous expectancy that they will be liked, the studious time of writing the descriptions and the brief back grounds, the choosing of the photographs....it's all fun, fun, fun.