Sorry to jump in late on this, but the Costume museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City, N.Y. had one on display until May 13th . The exhibit is down now, but contact them and maybe they can help you. Best Regards- Monica Spence
> >> 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
