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1926 Dress

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My house turned 100 years old in 2026, so I decided to throw it a birthday party! I did a ton of research about my house and the neighborhood, and even though I’m not a fan of ’20s fashions, I decided to make a ’20s dress for the event. The party was “1920s costume admired

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Empresses in the Palace-Inspired Outfit

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Empresses of the Palace cosplay - Chinese 18th-century costume - Costume College 2019

For several years, I’d planned to recreate a costume like those worn in the Chinese TV drama The Empresses in the Palace (2015), aka The Legend of Zhen Huan (2011). I reviewed the shortened Netflix version of the series for Frock Flicks and was in love with the costumes, of course. Based a smidge of

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