Your Ticket to Another Time- a sampling of our work
Shooting Star Enterprises
Custom Victorian & Edwardian Dresses | Horseshoes-Ready-made Dresses | Online Sewing / Costume History Seminars
Merchantile/Shopping | Victorian Dress Patterns | Victorian Hats and Bonnets | Our own Books on costume making / history
Calendar of Events | Living History | Programs/Reenactments | Edwardian Day Camp for Girls | Museum
Saddles, Custom Tack - Western, Period, Sidesaddles | Reenactor/Sidesaddle T-shirts and more
Online library / Reference Room | Research Service | Kids History Educational Pages

Who are we?
We create custom designed Victorian and Edwardian dresses and accessories for the discriminating reenactor.
We also provide educational entertainment in the form of Living History Presentations
for Schools, Museums, Festivals, Private Parties and More...
Several Characters are portrayed including the famous Annie Oakley & her husband Frank Butler,
Theodore Roosevelt & daughter Alice and much more.

If you are searching for that perfect Victorian dress...
Step into The Victorian Era with Us!

Freebies!

We also have a free costume
reference library for the Victorian & Old West Era,
and
free e-cards made from photos from our own collection.
After long neglect
KIDS HISTORY website is moving back to our own site- and in the process of updating!


Edwardian and Victorian Dress Patterns
Well documented and researched, with clear instructions,
based on clothing and dressmaker's systems in our own collection
Tombstone era Summer/Work dress, Parasols, Versatile Bustle Skirt,
Early Bustle Bodice, Gibson / Edwardian Skirt, Men's Shirt, Sunbonnet and more...
allie tombstone or natural form era summer/work gown patterna parasol we made for the movie cold mountain
victorian bustle skirt patternvictorian early bustle bodice pattern

Historical Sewing Seminars

historic sewing seminars from shooting star history
Want to learn to make your own bustle era dress? Cover a parasol? Create your own patterns from scratch?
Would you like to find out about what cowgirls, saloon girls or working ladies wore?
Learn to date photographs and antique dresses?

Custom Designed Victorian & Edwardian Gowns
Bustle era wool day dress- circa 1880'sEdwardian ballgown- beaded silk organza
When you want the very best in historical correctness, we pay attention to authenticity in cut, fabric and fit.
We draft our own patterns, and can copy period photos, or fashion plates.

Living History Programs
annie oakley and theodore roosevelt portrayed by the Davises
Would you like to visit with Annie Oakley in her tent, or ride along with Theodore Roosevelt and his rough riders?
What about a lecture for your group on historical clothing, or for the genealogist how to date photographs?
Need someone to serve a Victorian tea and act as hostess?
Just give us a call!


Victorian and Edwardian Hats and Bonnets

Custom order, ready made, and dyed and shaped hats ready for trimming.

Edwardian Day Camp for girls!
edwardian day camp for girls
Learn sewing, tea time manners, period dance, games and more for the little lady in your life

Browse Doug's Saddlery
old west saddle shop
Quality custom saddles for the re-enactor and working cowboy.

Wicked Stepmother's Formulary- Herbal Potions
herbal remedies and potions from wicked stepmother
Our own formulas, from our own garden, all natural

Please Visit Us On Site- Our Museum
South wall of Great room at our Museum
we love to have visitors at our home/museum/workshop right here in Hitchcock, Oklahoma
Call ahead and let us know you are coming and we can get out the work dress displays,
you can visit Doug's saddle shop, see Marna Jean's dressmaker's system collection and more!


Shooting Star Enterprises
Doug and Marna Jean Davis (and girls!)
RR 1 Box 8
Hitchcock, OK 73744
Phone- 580-825-3374 (8am - 9 pm central standard time)

COME VISIT US!
On site lectures for your group, classes or just browse the museum.

No time to go to the library? Can't find what you want or need?
Need to date a 19th century clothing item or photo?
Try our Research Service

Have you been to see the Award Winning Movie
Cold Mountain?
What about the Legends of Zorro?
We created parasols for it!
Look for our
Parasol pattern and our Online Class!

Book on CD - No Lady of Leisure
Working Class Dress for the Victorian Woman
Lots of hard to find information on what pioneer women really wore-
including hundreds of detailed photos from my own collection of working class clothing


Victorian Hats and Bonnets-
We will be featuring bonnets and hats from the Victorian and Edwardian eras,
check the page to see what's available this week- these are one of a kind confections in hand dyed straw and covered frames


NEW-
Printed Items from our TWO CafePress Shops
Items featured are Sidesaddle Specialties, and Reenactor's Web shop!
WE now have children's items, baby items and Christmas ornaments!

View our Printed Specialties


Custom Victorian & Edwardian Dresses | Horseshoes-Ready-made Dresses | Online Sewing / Costume History Seminars
Merchantile/Shopping | Victorian Dress Patterns | Victorian Hats and Bonnets | Our own Books on costume making / history
Living History | Programs/Reenactments | Edwardian Day Camp for Girls | Museum
Saddles, Custom Tack - Western, Period, Sidesaddles | Reenactor/Sidesaddle T-shirts and more
Online library / Reference Room | Research Service | Kids History Educational Pages