The one I own is made similar to a sort of 'longline bra. It is a wrap around with the opening in the front. Of a heavy weight canvas or duck. it offers a more than adequate bust control. Would be glad to share the pattern I have developed with it. SASE. Kathleen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Beth Schoenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 12:12 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] looking for extant late 18c - early 19c stays
> > On 14/05/2006, at 1:07 PM, susannah eanes wrote: > > > I am making one last effort to find an extant set of regency era > > unboned stays (or having only a few bones). In my travels I have seen > > only 4 or 5 of these, and all are very different from one another. I > > do have one pattern a colleague is sharing for a front-closing > > version, but would really like to find at least 3 good examples that > > could reasonably be made by the average seamstress with a good > > pattern. If anyone knows of a set in either a private or public or > > any museum collection that we could go & study, that would be really > > nice. > > > > If anyone has access to or can share information on these, I would > > appreciate it. We are working on this pattern for docent use at a > > living history site c. > > 1800-1815. > > > > thanks for any and all information, > > susannah > > Fig & Folly Historic Patterns > > www.fig-n-folly.com > > > > Hi, Susannah, > > The Kyoto Costume Institute sponsored an exhibit many years ago which > travelled the world, called "Revolution in Fashion, 1715-1815." The > original catalogue from that exhibit has become a seriously expensive > collector's item, has now been re-printed, and, I have heard, is on the > internet somewhere, although I haven't checked it out personally. > > The catalogue has at least 3 pages of corsetry covering/bracketing your > period, so I've listed here the two most relevant. Page 101 (with > description on page 152) shows four corsets from the late 18th C (three > from 1785, including one child's corset; and one from 1790). All of > these pieces have boning in them to some degree, although one has only > a little boning supplementing quilting. > > Page 103 shows three corsets and a brassiere from 1820 or so > (commentary for this page is also written up on page 152, along with a > picture of the brassiere laid out flat). The 1820 corset is stiffened > only with cording quilted in. The other three pieces are dated only > as "early nineteenth century." The brassiere is described as "boned > at bust" only; the other two corsets rely only on cord-quilting for > their shapes. > > Page 152 also has a French print of 1809, called "The Fad for Corsets," > showing four women being laced into their corsets by their(?) menfolk. > The corset shapes are a bit exaggerated, but the picture is clear > enough to give you some idea of corsetry between the eras represented > by the photo examples. > > There are no credits given for the owners of any of these; it's fairly > safe to assume that they all (still) belong to the Kyoto Costume > Institute. > > Hope this helps! > > Beth Schoenberg > --- in warm and overcast autumnal Canberra > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
