Thank you thank thank y ou!!!!! This is so awesome and it is EXACTLY the affirmation I Was looking for. I"ve never seen where they piped the front darts, but it IS quite attractive, and I may well try it on my next go-around with this pattern of dress. Yours in cosutming, Lisa A ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Laura Rubin <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [h-cost] piping on Civil War era dresses Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 10:27:14 -0800
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 <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [h-cost] piping on Civil War era dresses Message-ID: <[email protected]> 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 [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
