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During her married life, Perchta wrote many letters to her father and brothers with colourful descriptions of her unhappy family life and the bad treatment by Jan of Lichtentejn

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It is a little itchy at the seam at the waist, but that seems very common for costumes, and overall, she loves wearing it and it seems well-made.

It gives you a precise map of your foot's length, width, and pressure points, which is information you can't get from a standard measuring device

Additional reporting by Kate Boswell and Sofia Deeb.

I am indebted to costume historian Tom Tierney for creating his Civil War Fashions Coloring Book and American Family of the Civil War Era paper dolls, both of which offer extremely detailed illustrations and captions of the fashions my characters in Wedded to War would have worn