Hi Cassidy! Thank you so much for the clarification. So nice to hear the story behind the process. 🙂

I really wish I could have done full-length photos of the garments. The trouble was that my time was really limited at each historic site (I could only take a day off here and there to visit them, and they took a decent amount of driving to get to), and very few of them were set up to dress mannequins or forms, let alone photograph them against neutral backgrounds. They’re also not set up with rigs to take decent lying-down photos, which I find very frequently look messy anyway. Drawings seemed like the best way to depict the dresses, and I had them done by a local illustrator, going off my detail photos and descriptions.

For the related illustrations (the mostly fashion plates), I had to choose from a specific image bank for financial reasons. There were hardly any attributions, so I had to figure out what publication they were from and when they were published. I had to settle for “basically related” in some cases, which wasn’t ideal. My hope is that my openness and willingness to chat with anybody who has a question about the book and emails me or comments on my blog will make up for its shortcomings!

Using the patterns to adjust commercial ones is totally something I intended them for! I can’t wait to see your next Regency project.