If someone cleaned the garment at any point since it was worn last, this
may be enough to have made any thread holes disappear.
Something else I as a clothing collector have sometimes run into, is the
remodeling project some Victorian or Edwardian abandoned partway through.
Fran
Lavolta Press
www.lavoltapress.com
On 9/20/2011 2:37 PM, Astrida Schaeffer wrote:
Good point.
I've examined the trim loop with a magnifying glass, though, and still can't
find any attachment holes. Hmmm… Since it does seem to so clearly belong at the
skirt hem, perhaps I'll suggest either a minimum pin job or really large
basting stitches to the curator.
On Sep 20, 2011, at 4:03 PM, Lavolta Press wrote:
But no holes showing it was ever attached to anything! And why would you do
something requiring tedious pinning/sewing when the rest of the train was an
easy on/off solution? Any ideas? I'm baffled. Astrida
In the 19th-century, it was quite common for women to hand baste accessories
and other parts onto a garment to change the look, even though this seems labor
intensive from our point of view. This made the wardrobe more flexible, almost
larger, without costing much more money.
Bear in mind that the wearer did not necessarily want to alter the
with-train/without-train look every time she wore the garment. She could easily have
decided to wear the train for a number of events in a row. She even might have added the
train for an entire season, as in "This season trains are in fashion, but I can
always remove this one next season if they go out of fashion."
Fran
Lavolta Press
Books on making historic clothing
www.lavoltapress.com
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