Tailoring an 1890s Jacket to Live My Victorian Boss Dreams

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Tailoring an 1890s Jacket to Live My Victorian Boss Dreams

“It’s no secret how much I love a good tailoring project. Especially one that allows me to explore this particular avenue of late Victorian women’s history: the up-and-coming class of the working professional woman. The journalists and detectives and…mob bosses too; why not?

I knew the final reveal sequence for this project would have to be shot in a location not only befitting the working-professional, but also the ‘mob boss’ vibe we have going for this particular character. The night before the shoot—which was initially planned to take place on a nondescript cobbled street elsewhere in London—I suddenly remembered the existence of a small historic street called Shad Thames: once a bustling warehouse district in the latter Victorian period, and for which the architecture has remained largely preserved to today. There is nothing quite so magical as getting to visit a historic location like this in the quiet hours of dawn, with no one else around (saving the occasional passing jogger), and feeling as if you’ve stepped into another time.

Speaking of the final reveal sequence, Editor Danny decided to drop in a bit of ‘foreshadowing’ (as they put it) for the next video. Any thoughts on where we’re going next?”

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