Mackinac Island

The leading designers and quality suppliers of Victorian, Edwardian, Civil War, and Old West Styling for Women!

www.recollections.biz

Welcome to Recollections and take a step back in time!

Offering more than 500 styles of Victorian and Edwardian Era fashions in sizes XS through XXXXL

Photos for Recollections taken April 2007 on Mackinac Island, Michigan

Have you ever envisioned yourself back in time..... when genteel women wore delicate lace trimmed camisoles, pantaloons, bloomers, petticoats, blouses, bustle skirts, feather trimmed hats and lest we forget, elegant ball gowns. Made in rich velvets, taffetas, satins, cottons and lavishly trimmed in a virtual treasure trove of laces, ruffles and beaded bodices. Recollections makes it possible for your dreams to come true!

Our design staff has dedicated over 29 years creating fine ladies’ garments and it is our hope that we have recaptured a glimmer of a time gone by. In addition to offering a vast collection of styles, they are also available in a medley of over 60 fabrics in a potpourri of hues, prints and textures. All for you.

Recollections’ designs appeal to many enthusiasts: Members of SASS, NCOWS, or those affiliated with a Victorian or Edwardian era activities. Many have sought our designs for Civil War re-enacting, museum exhibits, costuming for the film industry, stage productions, theater performances, horse-drawn carriage tours, photography, clothing for the staff members at historical sites, ball room dancing and many other activities and interests. Perhaps you admire styles known as Gibson Girl, Pioneer, Old West, Soiled Dove, Prairie dresses or Turn of the Century designs. We offer them all.

For those who are just a romantic at heart we offer styles that can be worn in our day to day life, just with the feminine and modest touch often forgotten by the designers of today.

We visited Mackinac Island, Michigan for the photography and video of the models and dresses – and we would like to thank the businesses and individuals for their generous accommodations and permission to use their properties for photography:

www.viofmackinac.com Village Inn Restaurant – Mackinac Island ’s Favorite Eating & Drinking Saloon –Voted Best Restaurant in Northern Michigan .

www.pontiaclodge.com Pontiac Lodge Rooms and Apartments where we found the “charming atmosphere of times gone by, but not forgotten.” Very charming people and roomy accommodating suites!

www.iroquoishotel.com Hotel Iroquois on the Lake - "The Iroquois is completely personal and unique." "Right in the middle of things" on this car-free island, it still retains "a sense of solitude and remoteness"…. A beautiful Hotel, friendly people, on the Straits of Mackinac.

www.mict.com Mackinac Island Carriage Tours Inc. is the world's largest, oldest and continually operated horse and buggy livery, with approximately 100 freight and passenger carriages put in motion by over 400 horses. The livery very graciously open for the day to take us up to the Bluffs for pictures.

www.mackinacisland.org Thanks to Mary McGuire Slevin, Mackinac Island Tourism Bureau, who organized the day for us.