Hi,
This is excactly what there are not. No patterns of such a dress.
Because the dress only consist of one skirt, i wonder how the skirt would be
attached to the bodice.
Could it be that the whole front skirt was put to some tape ties, where it
would be attached to the back of the skirt at the middle of the bodice, and
then the pointed bodice would be pinned in the front over the skirt?
What i would be very interrested in was how the cut would have ben like in
the back, perhaps the fourreau style or the mantua style with sewn down
pleats?
It is strange that all costume historians leaved this type out, because it
surely was very popular, also in Denmark.
Besides its not as much fabric consuming as a francaise is or anglaise for
that matter, because it only has one skirt.
Bjarne
----- Original Message -----
From: "Suzi Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] dress type
At 13:00 12/11/2006, you wrote:
I have seen this dress. In the original movie, The
King And I, Anna is wearing one during the State
Dinner seen when she is dancung with Yul Brenner.
--- Diana Habra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have finally found a propper picture to show.
> This is a painting of the
> > view over the thames. Its from the mid century.
> You can clearly see that
> > the
> > ladies dresses dont have the sack backed trains in
> the back. I have seen
> > this type of dress in many danish paintings two,
> yeat this type of dress
> > is
> > never spoken of in any history books.
> > So i ask you!
> > Please take a look at this painting wich i
> uploaded, it is cropped just to
> > show the persons, and its ben magnified a lot, so
> its not the best
> > quality.
> > What is this dress called? Is it bodice and skirt,
> or is the skirt
> > attached
> > to the bodice?
> > I am so curious to hear what you think!
> >
> > http://www.my-drewscostumes.dk/thames.htm
>
> To me it looks like a version of the "Anglaise"
> style dress. Or am I
> missing something?
>
> If they are Anglaise dresses, then the skirt is
> attached to the bodice,
> they close in the front with small straight pins,
> and the bottom of the
> bodice comes to a point in the front and back. The
> skirt is also pleated
> to the bodice all the way around.
>
> Hope that helps!
This is taken from a painting by Canaletto in 1747. It's one of his London
from the Thames paintings. Here is the full painting.
http://www.abcgallery.com/C/canaletto/canaletto31.html (I hope).
Are there dresses like this in "Fitting and Proper", or "Costume
Close-up", or "Costume in Detail", or "Historic Fashion in Detail"? (the
18th century one.) I'm away from my books and can't check right now.
Suzi
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