Welcome to LizCapism! I am Liz, an amateur Costuming and Material Culture Historian and Costuber. I make videos about historical sewing and clothing, as well as the ways you can incorporate the historical into your everyday life, known as Historybounding! Sometimes I'll make a (mostly) accurate Victorian style gown, other times I will teach you how to give your modern clothes a retro flair! I use these things as a way to explore how history is shaped by the everyday and the ordinary. I always try to put an intersectional lens on anything I talk about as way to remember those who are not often talked about in history. My official qualifications are literary in nature, so I talk a lot about Jane Austen and bookish things too!
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Flannelette skirts are where it's at... plus they double as warm petticoats under going into the world skirts. Sooo comfy; they are essentially pajamas bottoms but classy. I wear them out into the world and am often complimented on them.
Loved your ending, asking why we need to know. There's a saying: "never meet your heroes." We have no right to the private lives of others. I am thankful we have some letters of hers. That's more than enough to get an idea of her. Let her work speak for itself. As for the person, she was flawed like all of us. We don't need to know in which areas.
Only idiots think Jane Austen is "boring". She's extremely funny and sensitive. Jane Austen is nowadays more of a lithmus test for intelligence and wit.
I don't have money or health. I have a very sick little girl that I have to stay home with so I manage some time here and there to make historical clothing in the hopes of helping dad with her medical bills. The word "privilege" is a funny thing huh? Be careful how you use it. I'm not privileged, I'm struggling, and I only have time to sew because I'm watching over my little one who can have multiple seizures a day.
Hi Liz, viking reenactor here - it`s really inspirering to see a tekstile designer make modern versions of historical garments. I sometimes wish I could use viking garments in vinter, much warmer actually 😊 I love your watch, what brand is it, and where can one buy one😅❤?
Everything becomes even more complicated when you intend to narrow down to a particular geographic area. For example, my SCA persona lives in the 14th-15th centuries in the Iberian peninsula, and more exactly in Al-Andalus (Andalucia) and surroundings. It’s nearly impossible to find sources apart from a painting on leather in the ceiling of one of the Alhambra palace rooms, in Granada. There is also an in-depth study on those ceilings by a historian, but the text of that research is behind an expensive pay wall and not printed for sale, so I can only use the snippets found here and there.
As a chronically ill creator, I appreciate everything about this video - both its creation and its sentiments. As a lover of regency costume, I appreciated seeing the process of the dress. I will definitely be looking at the duvet covers at my local thrift store!
I keep coming back to this video whenever I need it and I just wanted to thank you for creating this. Today I had a terrible day because of my adhd and you make me feel a lot less alone. Genuinely thank you.
I’m having difficulties finding the measurements. Is there some formula I’m really bad at sawing, but this look about step above my level, but the measurements have to be correct. I don’t want to waste a big piece of fabric. Can you help?
So many good source links and references for covering this material. I had no idea the Met had an Open Access directory, you definitely have to look for it. Thank you for putting this video together and sharing with us
That genteel, sweet, quiet, boring image of Austen actually sounds EXACTLY like Charlotte Bronte's opinion of her and her work lol. Maybe she started it. /s
Not every video needs to be deep or have a story around it! I would, in fact, be content to watch you make some trousers and discuss what issues you encountered along the way 🙂
Wow! I would say that you have ticked many box's and handed out an appreciable amount of inspiration. Thank you for this!!!! You have, however inadvertently, done a tutorial. Now I understand the fit!!! Also the lie of the drop front ... in fact I think I get it... the whole lot, or enough so I can possibly manage from here... ❤
I'm new to your channel! And I think it's great you made a decorative IUD! I'm a Mother of 3 surviving sons..My second son died in a drowning accident in 1996 July! He was 14yrs old. I wish it could say having children was great..I'd be lying. So I think you're really smart not going down motherhood nightmare! It was for me...I guess now that I'm 62yrs I think You are the smartest of us all! Stay 😎 Bonnie Ohio 😊
Great! That is just what I think and I need such a skirt,or better: some of those🥰. Thank you sooooooo much for awakening my thoughts of comfy/ lazy clothing ❤️
I guess that three fabrics thing must be an Indian thing, my friend was in India on business and brought me back three bits of cotton in various weights, patterns and shades of purple and they were packaged as a set! I made a skirt out of one and I'm trying to figure out how to use the other two (one's a sheer and will be going over the other) but my first attempt at making a flowy skirt out of them made a flowy potato that's very unbecoming so I need to unpick it. Historybounding stuff that I've made and wear a lot include some medieval inspired rectangles and gores dresses I made out of plaid flannel, I wear them all winter as house dresses cause I finally found a hem length that's safe in my house (long hems and me and stairs are a bad plan). I've also got a house jacket with a capelet cause in trying to add ease, I effed up the neckline and it was too loose so the patching to fix it is hiding under a short capelet and it made me want to capelet everything. I even confused the hell out of a friend of mine who recently made me a super warm fuzzy winter skirt, by sending her a photo of me wearing it like a poncho... And I loathe bras so I'm exploring corsets and kirtles and supportive vests and stays as support garments. The spiral lacing linen kirtle pinafore has gone over well, no complaints from my mom on that one. And I've started implementing puffy sleeves on some of the patterns I've made a bunch of times, I might try it with polar fleece next sweatshirt! But the next ridiculous historybounding project is to make Mal's pretty floral bonnet from Firefly, to wear when I'm in plate mail cause my hair absorbs ALL THE SUNS and fries my brain, found some suiable fabric and everything!
