.. for Fiona, our 1866 11 year old customer. Take a look at Fiona’s project-in-process on her web page as we are crankin’ up the excitement and working on her unders: https://silhouettescostumes.com/customer-projects/in-development/fiona-buker-sidewalk-interpreter/
No, we don’t sell battery cars or rooftop gardens, but we do make each & every part down to the thread out of 100% natural and historically correct flax, linen, silk, cotton, or wool – AND – all constructed in America by hand personally, specifically for YOU.
Silhouettes Costumes researches, designs, and builds authentic costumes for women. The more we research, the more we find the stories. These stories we have been telling are about women who really existed. We fill in the “spaces between” to guess how they felt, acted, and actually were, so that we …
Just in… Kristi’s chemise and drawers. You can see the extensive research, design development, and now construction of 4 customer projects in process. Go to the website: customer projects: in development and check often to see what we’re doing.
… again as they begin the line that continues to make today’s final connections of royalty in the world. Hortense was Empress Josephine’s daughter by a first marriage. Josephine was Napoleon I’s first wife. Louis was one of Napoleon’s middle brothers. (portrait: Hortense de Beauharnais who would marry Louis Bonaparte; …
…We have covered the Bourbons, the Napoleons, and the connections of those families to the United States, Russia, Prussia, and historical England. These families lived through fashion eras Colonial, Georgian, and Regency. We will now make the final connection of all European royalty to Victorian – fashion era AND the …
… from his son by his 2nd marriage, is responsible for many of today’s European royals. Here she is shown with her firstborn.
.. in the arms of her beloved husband in 1810. He refused to remarry, but did so 14 years later for political reasons. Frederick eventually remarried and had more children. Pictured here is Helene Luise Elisabeth of Mecklenburg, the granddaughter of Frederick through his 2nd marriage. Her father was the …
… raised up the idea of Luise, “the soul of national value” as the ideal Nazi woman. They used her image in propoganda, and the portraits related to the Nazi cause are of Luise, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, wife of the former King of Prussia. (Nazi posters based on the ideal …
… one who would become Frederick Wilhelm IV of Prussia, and one German Emperor Wilhelm I. (Portrait: Luise and Frederick in 1806 with their children)
