1817, now

Okay, here's an odd thing. I concluded in my thesis based on a lot of sources that French and English fashion divided during the Napoleonic Wars, and so far I think that's probably still true. But based on only a couple of sources (no American fashion plates = harder to research specifically American fashion trends) I decided that American dress followed English during that period ... but based on the two patterns I've done since that, it looks like American dress probably followed French. Although probably by the time I exhaustively go through La Belle Assemblée again I'll discover I was wrong about English dress as well.

Basically everything I concluded in my thesis I've discovered is wrong by now, btw. And the outfit I made for it doesn't fit well, either. /o\ (Also, it has giant yellowed blotches up and down the skirt, no clue how they got there, did I mention I took Advanced Conservation I?)

I have so nothing to talk about these days because all I do is watch old SVU and save fashion plates to my hard drive. Over a thousand by now, btw. Hey, but this episode mentioned that the victim's parents live in "a small town near Saratoga"!