Very astute observation. It was uncomfortable - I agree with you, in the past nothing I've made has been uncomfortable, but this was, and I attributed it to the way I cut the bodice. The corset wasn't uncomfortable if worn in the "normal push up mode", but Heather, the model, said it was uncomfortable because she had to push her breasts down instead of up. We did that because other wise the top of the bodice looked wrong. I should qualify this, she said it wasn't uncomfortable, but that she wouldn't be able to exert herself in much of anyway.
Also, she said it was tough to find out what to do with her arms. On the Queen Elizabeth gown (in the background), at least she could allow her arms to hang down in front of her because the farthingale was flat in front. Here she could not, and it wasn't comfortable for her to bend her arm and rest it on the farthingale either. My biggest cutting mistake from this perspective was the way the sleeves set into the bodice. No matter what I did, they just didn't really look right, and she really couldn't move her arms up and down much. The overgown sleeves were hooked in. Having those open underarms was a life saver..otherwise it would have been really hard to get the overgown on. The little girl, is actually a little boy. Back then, at his age, they all dressed pretty much the same which was part of the point of the lecture....I don't really have very good pictures of Andrew yet, (I am hoping his mom got some good ones.) I will post what I have in the next few days. Some of the research pictures I have on line give you some sense of where the boy's outfit came from. Thank you for your thoughtful observations, Sg ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gail & Scott Finke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 6:56 AM Subject: [h-cost] Re: phoenix art museum pix > on saragrace wrote: > > > Here are a few pics from the Phoenix Art Museum talk I did last week. > > Still > > > > tweaking the CSS style sheets so bear with me! I'll be updating some of > > the > > > > details for the diary now that I have time ..... > > > > > > http://saragrace.us/images/GoldenAge/Actuals/Event/index.htm > > > > Saragrace, I just had a minute to look at your wonderful pictures. Who is > the little girl who is in the corner of the first one? I hope you had a > great audience, it looks like a fabulous talk. > > Here is my question. The gown looks just right to me -- correct fit, > shape, > silhouette, etc. But it sure looks uncomfortable! I know that most people > today think almost anything historic looks uncomfortable, but I don't. > I've > worn a lot of historic styles, or approximations thereof, and have found > almost all of them to be perfectly comfortable (and more comfortable than > badly fitting contemporary clothes). But this just looks uncomfortable for > sitting, standing, walking, anything. > > How do those of you on the list who wear this style find it? > > Gail Finke > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
