>> sometimes little girls will ask me if i'm a princess, which >> reporter: wearing fashion statements that would make a hipster envious. dandy hats, corseted garb, a chatelaine that functions as a victorian version of a swiss army knife. >> i do everything by hand. a woman in the 1880s would have considered me old-fashioned because they had sewing machines. i've got girlfriend hot do yoga, i sew. >> reporter: this isn't an act for the cameras. for over six years the crispins have lived out of the victorian