costuming – "Your Dying Charlotte"

Patterns of Time

Vintage Patterns Wikia has released a catalog of more than 83,000 vintage sewing patterns. Costuming enthusiasts can use the reference numbers to search for extant patterns on sites like eBay.

Elite_styles — Elite Styles Company, September 1922.

Oct31Pictorial1 — Pictorial Printed Patterns, October 1931.

Magazine_Cover1 — Praktische Damen-und Kinder-Mode No. 26; 1935-36.

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Charlotte was from a respectable British family of the Regency period—a clan that could afford gold and faceted jet mourning jewelry to be commissioned. Charlotte was probably a young woman when she realized she was dying, possibly of consumption. The simple style and shape of the brooch dates it to around 1815.

In the Collection Highlights below and on the Contact page, you can see the brooch, which reads on its reverse: "Dear Henry, accept this as a token of sincere Love from your Dying Charlotte."
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