Hi everyone,
A recent discussion elsewhere got me curious about the shape of late 19th
century riding habit skirts, I know that up until the 1870s riding habit
skirts were usually regular skirts with a train to cover the feet when
you're on the horse and then around the 1870s a new cut came in with a dart
to accommodate the raised knee but I really can't visualise how it would be
constructed. I know there are commercial patterns out there for habit skirts
but I'm not interested in actually making one I just want to satisfy my
curiosity as to how they would be constructed. Does anyone know of a period
pattern diagram from the late Victorian era online? A search of my links
turned up this 1912 'standard riding skirt' pattern
http://www.costumes.org/history/100pages/1912thornton6.htm but I don't know
how similar that would be to a co. 1870s-80s riding skirt.
thanks,
Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Walpole
Canberra Australia
ewalpole[at]tpg.com.au
http://au.geocities.com/amiperiodornot/
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