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 can depict them.
In this journey through time, places, and connections, we are surprised to find how much women have been the same throughout history – we love, we lose, we have children, we lose them. We win battles, we control countries, we watch our men, and we work alongside them.
In the end, when we are gone, we can only hope someone will want to know enough about us now, to study us in the future.
(Portrait: Louise Antoinette Lannes, Duchess of Montebello in about 1804 with her children (February 26, 1782, Paris – July 3, 1856, Paris). Note the 2nd Regency style influences and the military frogging of her son that was so typical of that time.
Louise was a French courtier, dame d’honneur (Mistress of the Robes) to Empress Marie Louise of France. While we have documented history of notables, we can only guess at the real lives of real women at the time.)