Thank you for your kind words. If you look at the picture, I think you'll see that it does not lay flat. http://saragrace.us/images/GoldenAge/PAM_PICS/Overall.JPG
The farthingale should have been tilted more to the front. I was in a hurry to get back to start the auditorium and didn't notice it when I was taking the pics. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Five Rivers Chapmanry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 3:20 AM Subject: [h-cost] RE: Done! A few pics from the Golden Age dress. > Gorgeous gown and details. I wondering, however, about the bodice > front and the bumroll. I can accept that a bumroll may have been that > wide, > but I'm curious about the bodice front, in that it is my understanding, > perhaps mistakenly, the front would have been heavily boned, perhaps even > with busk, in order for it to lay flat down the torso, with the bumroll, > tapering toward the front to allow for the bodice to lay correctly. > > Any thoughts? > > Regards, > Lorina > Five Rivers Chapmanry > purveyors of quality hand-crafted cooperage, embroidery supplies; fine, > original textile, pen and ink, and watercolour art. Launching April 1: > Recipes of a Dumb Housewife, by Lorina Stephens > 519-799-5577 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.5rivers.org > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
