Mixing Time Periods for Historybounding - Designing a Wardrobe

Designing a historybounding wardrobe that mixes together different time periods, with some little illustrations to help you visualize the process.

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0:00 – Intro
01:20 – The Concept
02:56 – Waistline
04:19 – Creating Separates
06:10 – The Wardrobe
13:53 – The Outfits
14:59 – Outro

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[LinaPiprek]

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[makeda]

**distant screaming** May you be immensely blessed! Love it!

[katherinemorelle]

I also history bound a mixed era wardrobe. What I try to do is keep all of my pieces within a complementary colour scheme, which makes them easier to mix and match. So fo me that is neutrals (white, black, grey and beige), with blues, greens, and blue greens in more jewels tones (I don’t do pastels of any colour). They’re the colours that I enjoy wearing the most.

I also construct each piece so that they can double as historically adequate costuming. I prefer all my skirts ankle length anyway, so it’s easy enough for me to do. Each era is made to be as accurate as I can get, so they work as costumes, but also usually working class, or toned down (or can be toned down) so they work as street wear.

That’s how I get the most out of my clothing, because I can’t afford to make both a daily wardrobe and a bunch of costumes. They all need to be able to do both.

[lisahodges]

Historybounding is not new, the clothing trades' explanation is "there is nothing new". It is lovely to see Lina having fun with clothes and including anyone, any shape and any era of clothing. Modern clothing seemed to have lost its' way and now we can have fun again. Thank you Lina
Birdy

[closeburnrt]

Super ideas on interchanging the day and evening bodice. Now I feel inspired.

[craftlete]

Thank you so much! This came right on time, as I've been wanting to delve into historybounding but didn't know how to go about it. This gave me some specific ideas of how to combine pieces I find interesting into outfits I can actually see myself wearing

[shadesofblue]

Great video! A lot of inspiration & now I really am thinking of designing a capsule wardrobe for myself :) Thanks for making this!

[Chibihugs]

It is fun to see a mix of periods and makes for a really cool look.

[mvrooks]

thank you for usng the chunkier body type template in your drawings. i feel represented!

[TreScottsFan]

This was great. Can't wait to see what you do next.

[michelemilne]

Thank you for this project and inspiration. So lovely, Lina.

[liv]

Love this! I always love when you include illustrations in your videos - I really like your drawing style! And the waistline tip is such a good observation, I'm sure it really helps with making your outfits cohesive. I had never really thought about it, but it's something so glaringly obvious when you think about time periods that go together seamlessly. Great video!

[bookhoarding]

I so enjoyed this and love the resources. Thank you.

[TheMowette]

What a creative and lovely video! I really enjoyed your ideas and drawings :)