Every wonder what it felt like to wear a bustle? Find out at Fashions of Their Times 1805-1925, an interactive fashion workshop at the Nickels-Sortwell House on Saturday, Aug. 5 from 10 a.m. to noon. Admission is $15 Historic New England members, $25 non-members. Advance purchase is required. Space is limited. Please call 207-882-7169 to purchase admission or buy online at http://shop.historicnewengland.org/NIC-FASHION-9960//. The workshop will be held in the Nickels-Sortwell House Barn, 121 Main Street, Wiscasset.The barn entrance is on Federal Street.

Join Wiscasset Site Manager and historic costume collector Peggy Konitzky for an entertaining and informative look at the wild ride of fashion from the early nineteenth century to the Roaring Twenties. Get an up close and personal look at the types of clothes the women of Castle Tucker and the Nickels-Sortwell House would have worn. What did wealthy women like Tempe Lee and Jane Nickels wear in 1807? How had fashion changed by the time Mollie Tucker lived in Wiscasset as a young mother in the 1860s? What did privileged women like Gertrude and Frances Sortwell wear as the 19th century moved into the 20th? The program includes an illustrated slide show and examples of the kind of clothes these women wore from Peggy’s personal collection as well as the collection of local antique dealer Faye Snyder of Parade Antiques. Try on a bustle for yourself!

For more information on this and other Historic New England house museums and programs, visit www.historicnewengland.org.