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Is there a difference between a farthingale and hoops? I need hoops/something
under my skirts.
1. I'm told that the bridal hoops sold are made of synthetic material and so
will be miserable at a warm fair. Is this so? Or are there hoops available
made of cotton or linen?
2. If I have to
-- Original Message --
From: Julie jtkn...@jtknits.cts.com
To: h-cost...@indra.com
Subject: [h-cost] questions
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 12:45:38 -0800 (PST)
Is there a difference between a farthingale and hoops? I need hoops/something
under my skirts.
Yes and no. In their most
I have to respectfully disagree about the steel boning causing blistering. As
someone who attends a 9 day Victorian Festival in August where I wear a corset
from morning until night (approx 14 hrs a day) every single one of those 9 days
(including dancing most of the evenings), I have never had
A. The difference depends on time period, and simple word use. Elizabethan
farthingales are shaped differently than Victorian crinolines, which differed
in shape depending on the time frame. Both are different in shape than modern
hoops. People in general call them all hoops. I have a page that
There are significant design differences between Elizabethan 'pair of bodies'
and Victorian corsets. I do the Bristol Renaissance Faire in July and August
and I have seen some screaming cases of corset burn caused to women who wore
corsets made with rigid steel boning. The Elizabethan 'pair of
Hey, I found a recent book with good duct tape dressform instructions.
While I think that most of the clothing in this book is quite hideous, I
applaud the authors go out Make what you want spirit. And the
dressform instructions are clear and comprehensive.
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Amazon Drygoods sells 3/8 plastic coated steel for hoops. Much better than
the stuff in buckram/cloth, because it is much easier to get out/put in for
washing.
And if you do as I have and just wash in the tub with boning in, the glue
dissolves and the steel is loose.Plus it rusts. That doesn't
Greetings!
penhal...@juno.com wrote:
In your Victorian corset, many of the bones are probably actually spiral steels
which have more of the flexibility of whale bone and bend over the complex
curves of the female torso better than rigid steels.
I don't do Elizabethan any more, but when I did I
Spiral steels would be a choice that does not reflect the era of a Dickens
Fair, which is c.1830-1860-ish, no? Whalebone, much cording, spring steels,
iirc.
My c.1880 corsets, which I made, have spring steel boning and not spirals at
all, and they only gave me issues at the tops, where I
I can really only address one part of this.
On Feb 2, 2010, at 12:45 PM, Julie wrote:
2. If I have to make my own hoops, where do you recommend I buy the
hoop material?
My first farthingale was sturdy cotton twill, and when it wore out, I
made my second one of medium-weight linen. I try
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