I have seen pictures of evening bodices double-piped, once with the fashion fabric and once with a contrast but, as I recall it was only at the waist edge. I'm disappointed because I really wanted to pipe an entire cotton dress with a turkey red that matched exactly the little bit of red in my pattern. I'm ging to do it anyway at the waist, even for my cotton day dress.
The not-piping at the back curved seam is in the Laughing Moon Mercantile 1860s dress. The tuck is on the outside and actually helps with fitting the back. It's a very pretty addition to an otherwise plain back. LynnD On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Lisa Ashton <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
