After my post last Friday on the Halloween wedding we’re attending, this past weekend as been full of online searches for costumes, rentals, and basic do-it-yourself ideas for my husband and I.  After a disappointing visit to a large thrift store today (with tacky, smelly clothes from the 1960s-1980s), I’ve since found two costume rental stores in Massachusetts and will be placing phone calls first thing tomorrow morning.  However, in my non-stop search for anything Colonial, Edwardian, Victorian or perhaps from the Regency time period, I came across this lovely site called 18th Century Blog.  The site is run by Johanna Öst and discusses fashion and culture from the 1700s, and many posts include images of her in period costume (which I believe most, if not all, she makes herself!).  Her blog has many images and good information on this time period, especially about Sweden in the 18th Century.  She also has a Flickr set which includes her in period clothing at Skansen, an open air museum in Stockholm that shows the Swedish way of life before the industrial era.  I’m beginning to wonder if my fascination and love for time periods long ago is going to take over, and I might start learning to sew simply to make period costumes…  Until that happens, I’ll live vicariously through Johanna’s blog!

{images shown belong to 18th Century Blog and Johanna Öst}