Inspired by Bernadette? Start your historybounding wardrobe TODAY!

Are you inspired by the historybounding YouTube videos of Bernadette Banner, Morgan Donner, Abby Cox, and NIcole Rudolf? Do you want to learn how to bring historical fashions into your modern capsule wardrobes?

Althea Rizzo shares an introduction to historybounding to help beginners get started living their best life. Share your love of historical clothing by wearing what you love.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction
00:43 What is historybounding?
03:33 What are the rules?
04:06 Decide your purpose
05:40 What is your why?
06:36 What era sparks you?
09: 17 Where do you get the clothes?

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Links to my historybounding videos
Designing a historybounding wardrobe from scratch | Sew authentically

Don’t wait for permission to start your history bound wardrobe

Dangerous curves ahead | History bounding a wardrobe while curvy(

History bounding and mindset | Clearing the cobwebs

Planning a historybound wardrobe for forest wandering | Vol. 1

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[annadachowska]

Okay I don't have time right now, but I wanna tell you: I checked because historybounding but I'm staying because of ADHD

[susanrobertson]

Tunics and leggings are history bounding medieval clothes although we don’t think about it that way very often.

[elisacoffey]

Enable each other? No, no, no. We Empower each other.

[Ed_Gein_crafts]

My area of interest is 1916 to 1919 and I take a lot of inspiration from my Czech great grandmother who came over to America at that time and set up in Czech Village in Cedar Rapids Iowa

I have a lot of her photos and I am looking forward to remaking her wardrobe from when she was a new immigrant

She was from the Bohemian region and part Romani.

I've been trying to create a capsule wardrobe that is Great War combined with slavic old world with the babsuka practicallity of "I got chickens and six kids to feed " no nonsense 😂

Basically lots of above the ankle full skirts, tons of embroidery and hard wearing fabric in bright colors.

[coalsparks]

Two things (or new rabbit holes?):
1. Mariah Pattie did a video called something like 1 rule 8 questions that walks you through figuring out what you want from a wardrobe you make, which I found useful. Gave me permission to NOT start by sewing historically accurate foundation garments but instead by reproducing stuff I already have that evokes a historical feeling in me.
2. Emily Snee studied which clothes she actually wore from her closet and I suspect a lot of us are similar - that is, essentially, a capsule wardrobe within our existing closets we’re starting from. I find thinking in terms of “omg making a new wardrobe!!” overwhelming compared to “I’d like to add two new tops this season.”
Also, I really love those glasses on you. :) Your videos always feel like coffee with a friend.

[mesquitemagic]

Oh my gosh! I love your channel! I've been invited to a Nordic Pagan wedding in October. That led me to look up Viking clothing, then history bounding, which eventually led me to you. Let's be real, I love the other girls, but I'm in my 50's now. It's so fun to find a historical sewist closer to my age. Thanks for all you do.

[SingingSealRiana]

A thing one should not underestimate for historybounding and capsule wardrobes is fabric choice. The same pattern can turn out so so differently depended on drape, color, print, whatever it has a sheen or not.... A pretty historical garment cut can look very modern when combined with a modern fabric like a jersey or a prints! On the other hand, if you find an old fashioned fabric, you will be able to create a historical feeling garment, despite having modernised the cut like with shortening the skirt, the siluete being off cause you decided against the understructure or whatever.
The same pattern can make an plain everyday garment evening
One can have a lot of fun with this, but it can also break a projects neck if one did not consider how fabric will effect the garments vibe.
You can more or less make a whole wardrobe out of 2 or 3 patterns where you change small things like sleeve langth, shape of the neckline, fullness of the making the bodice and skirt seperated pieces or not etc

[craftykez]

Thank you for pointing out plus sized thrift shopping.
As a plus sized single Mum I rarely find plus sized clothing that's in good order, and quality that I can purchase at the thrift store. Actually it's rarely ever to the point I just don't bother anymore. I'll thrift for the kids and just keep mending clothing I have for myself long past the point when items should have been retired to the compost ( for natural fibres) or the rubbish bin.
Actually it's rather depressing.

[VBirchwood]

This is a lovely and wonderfully empowering video Althea! Thanks so much 🥰

[ShannonLambert]

My entry to historybounding was Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. I don't look anything like Phryne Fisher but I want so many of her clothes. I've been in love with a lot of the art and architecture from the 1920s for a while, so it's no surprise her wardrobe caught my eye.

Something I keep coming back to is how shapes and silhouettes repeat themselves. There's a lot of "70s does 30s" and "80s does 40s" type stuff thrifting, if you have an eye for it. Even the shift dresses of the 60s look like the day dresses of the 20s and they both take inspiration from a number of eras where "straight" was the body shape of the decade. Or in the other direction, the New Look stuff reminds me a lot of 1860s with the dramatic hourglass shape, which is reminiscent of some Tudor stuff with the conical bodices and farthingales. Everything comes back around.

[kieraoona]

Excellent points about going across eras, and ideas! I'm watching as I sew a viking shift to wear with either all viking gear, or possibly wearing under a 1950s jumper dress

[susanstage]

I have always felt this! Dress in what makes your heart sing!

[mariek.]

Great video; gentle yet practical encouragement is always welcome when it comes to dressing a bit strangely and stepping out of own's comfort zone ❤
I've been incorporating more vintage and history-inspired clothing in my wardrobe for a few years now, though still very moderately in my day-to-day wear. Lately I've been aiming to add a bit more colour (mostly burgundy and some shades of green) to my mostly-black wardrobe, and dramatic bishop sleeves that make me ridiculously happy haha

One thing that might be useful to someone starting on a budget and that I like to do myself, is to keep a wishlist on my phone with the pieces I'd really like to find thrifting or retail : it gives a bit of focus and helps recognize if something I find is in line with what I really need (or if it'd be an impulse buy hard to fit with the rest of the wardrobe, or too similar to something already owned).

[kjmav]

Just found you. And subscribed! Nice to see somebody my age and size proudly represented on YouTube! Can we talk about GoodWill?? Where I live (Chicago), they have jacked up their prices to a level where their used clothing costs as much—sometimes more—than what you’d pay at Target for new fast fashion. That wouldn’t be so bad, but it seems a lot of what GoodWill is selling is secondhand fast fashion that started out—at Target! I am headed for retirement as a single woman, and I know my income will take a hit, so I’m trying harder to economise. But—these secondhand stores! They get more free clothing than they can handle and they’re selling it at brand-new prices. Bummer!

[Mommamacnz]

This was such a helpful video. I like the idea of incorporating historic styles into what I already wear (mind you, that's mostly jeans and tee shirts!).

I mostly wear a uniform to work, so I don't have much control over that, but I CAN incorporate something black into the lower half of what I wear. So, I'm considering making a Victorian/Edwardian bicycling skirt in black wool with a cream and blue striped flannelette petticoat/culottes underneath simply because that would be way warmer in winter than what I've currently got. Pair that with some nice black boots (which I already have and they're sheepskin lined) and I think I'd be nice and cozy warm (it's really drafty sitting next to the door of a school bus - that's my day job, school bus driver).

Thank you also, for pointing out that thrifting is sometimes the only way those on limited budgets can get clothes, and more so for pointing out the difficulty that larger bodied people have. I'm not a small woman, and my husband is quite rotund, so finding clothing in our sizes is more miss than hit.

Another thing we can do, is buy things that we know are too small, and then look for something with a fabric that will go with it, pull those items apart and make them over into something totally unique - I've been planning a corduroy jacket for some years and I now have almost enough fabric to start cutting the fabrics into squares or rectangles and sewing them together and then cutting the garment from those as Shannon Makes with her hobbit inspired jacket of many colours.

[dianeshiffer]

Firstly, I adore your hair style today and am (as always) deeply envious of your curls. 😉😘 I am currently in the throes of a research project regarding the typical wardrobe of a woman such as myself during the early-mid 20th century… my plan was to replicate such a wardrobe and use it for my daily life. I’m running into a few complications and impracticalities, but gracious I’m having sooo much fun in the process! Love your videos Althea dear!

[tiffanyr]

I LOVE this video!! I’ve been loving historical styles lately, but had no idea where to start. Thanks for spelling out such a nice jumping off point ❤️ i also bid you joy!

[millie]

So happy to see another history bounding wardrobe. Love them and would like to incorporate these styles into my wardrobe.

[habituscraeftig]

I grew up adoring 17th century clothing (of either gender, but especially the 1630s gentlemen). There was nothing whatever to be found, back then. The American mainstream seems to jump seamlessly from Queen Elizabeth I to Marie Antoinette. I didn't even know till after watching others on CosTube what a wealth of resources there were, even specifically focused on 17th century dress! And it's not that I hadn't periodically looked, but I didn't really know what to look for — or what sources related to what other resources. As much as I hate the algorithms that govern our modern existence, these days they are definitely on my side.

[androgenoide]

I wouldn't have thought that I was interested in historical clothing but, as you spoke of Bernadette and Karolina, Nicole and V, Birchwood et al, I suddenly realized that I subscribe to all of those channels...weird huh? The Suvia channel on the other hand...that ties in nicely to the other experimental archaeology stuff and I've always known that was cool. Live and learn they say.