Here's a link to the Past Patterns Sacque and petticoat: http://www.pastpatterns.com/808.html
The Pattern has some good historical notes, I can't find my copy but you could email Saundra for a copy. Katy On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 11:29 AM, WorkroomButtons.com <westvillagedrap...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Back at the Reed Homestead... we are moving on to the next pile -- stacks and > stacks of shirt-like garments with no closures (other than a few with ties at > the neck). > > We hired a woman in 1995 to start pulling clothing literally out of garbage > bags and start cataloging. (Sadly, we still have pieces from 1809 still in > garbage bags -- yes, the black plastic kind.) She called these shirt-like > garments "sacques" and this is want she wrote about them... > > "...I would like someone after me to write the word "sacque" which is what > we're going to use for the generic term. A sacque is a garment which hangs > from the shoulder down without interruption, without darts, without a waist > seam, so a man's sacque coat is one that was not cut in at the waist. And > that seems to be a generic form for this style if garment, no matter how it's > being used, but as I said before and you got on the VCR I think, these can be > used as a working garment with a skirt, held in place with an apron. They > can be used as a short nightgown for hot weather and when somebody is ill and > is using a bedpan. They can be used over your dress when you're doing your > hair and that's probably about it. Oh, yes, and the other thing is for > maternity, when it's an expandable top for when you're pregnant and obviously > can be used for nursing as well. And nobody has as many as you have." > > We have attempted to locate information about this type of garment, but > clearly we're looking in the wrong places because we're coming up empty. We > can find "saques" certainly but they don't look like ours. > > Any ideas? > > Dede O'Hair > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > -- Katy Bishop, Vintage Victorian katybisho...@gmail.com www.VintageVictorian.com Custom reproduction gowns of the Victorian Era. Publisher of the Vintage Dress Series books. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
