Cleaning is certainly a possibility, though the dress seems to have avoided alteration in any other aspect. At any rate, thanks!
On Sep 20, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Lavolta Press wrote: > 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 >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
