The National Museum of American History has one of Mrs. Lincoln's dresses that is a heavy purple velvet piped along every seam with white satin piping. It's a rather eccentric style! Even the front darts are piped! I'm led to believe that the dressmaker was rather unconventional as well, but was Mrs. L's favorite.
You can see a tiny picture of it here: http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/small_exhibition.cfm?key=1267&exkey=696&pagekey=710 -Laura Message: 13 Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 06:26:12 -0500 From: Lisa A Ashton <lis...@juno.com> To: h-cost...@indra.com Subject: [h-cost] piping on Civil War era dresses Message-ID: <20101213.075512.5052.168.lis...@juno.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii I know that dresses from this era (in America) were piped, and almost all self-piped, around the armscyes, and the back seams, but does anyone have a reference or a photo showing a solid piping with a print dress (or even anything refering to contrasting piping, for example, black piping on a lighter colored dress bodice)? Yours in costuming, Lisa A _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
