History-mad teen hand-crafted over 300 Bridgerton style costumes

Eleanor Shendery, 16, painstakingly crafted over 300 outfits which she wears to visit castles, stately homes and historical re-enactments.

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00:00 In lockdown, I started making historical costumes.

00:04 My first costume was a Tudor gown.

00:07 It was made out of my parents' curtains that they were throwing away,

00:11 and I just haven't stopped since then.

00:13 I've made 300 costumes now.

00:16 I'd say in my current collection that I've got in my house, I've got about 150,

00:21 because I tend-- I've sold a few, and I've dismantled quite a number of them

00:25 that I know I'm not going to wear.

00:27 Most of them are kept in my sewing room.

00:30 I probably would say there's about 60 of them that I wear reasonably regularly

00:36 and that I'm quite proud of,

00:38 and they're sort of the most recent costumes I made in the last year or two.

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