2023 Resolution Review

Looking back over the last year's costuming goals, it's time to see how they went.

• 1570s: kirtle [post forthcoming], gown, 3 shifts, pair of comfortable garters
• 18th century: cloak [post forthcoming], short gown
• Regency: No goals, and none completed.
• 1850s: new chemises and drawers. Also lots of corset mending.
• 1873 ensemble: corset, bustle, petticoat, and dress
• 1908/9 "Suffragette" ensemble: corset [post forthcoming], petticoat, suit, and hat.
• 20th century: wool skirts, split skirt for the summer.
• I made a few things on the knitting machine: stockings, muffatees, a rose.
• I did not experiment with shoe making as much as I had hoped.
  

Other projects:

• 1956 Stripe Dress
  
• 1903 evening dress (not posted since I want to tweak it a bit before calling it done)
  
• Finally finished that 1858 Soft-Crown Straw Bonnet which had been lingering for years.
• 1934 dress. 1928 dress. 1890s dress and corset. 
• Modern bathrobe.
• Research projects posted: wool aprons, flounced petticoats, petticoat quantities. Background reading for the 1873 and 1909 outfits (later to be posted this week).
  
• I also wrote up a few book reviews, though the to-write pile has actually grown this year.
  
• I did get at least a little mending done each month, and sometimes even wrote it up!
• I have 109 drafts in the folder; my overly optimistic goal was getting this down to 50.

All told, I completed more than half of my planned projects, and a comparable amount of unplanned ones. The numbers improve when I reflect that I did, for instance, have a wearable 1909 ensemble for the event that needed one, even if it involved a petticoat from a different era, and didn't include a hat. The main hold-up with posting this year really came down to the actual photography and writing, which usually is the easiest part of the operation.