Does anyone have an actual documented example?
No picture of a real example, but Rosalie Stier Calvert of Maryland did write
to her sister in Antwerp that she was sending her "a pair of lace sleeves" in
1807. And there is a French fashion plate from about the same time that shows
separate sleeves. However, those sleeves are white with a white dress.
Do you have enough of the fabric left to eke out a self separate undersleeve
that can be pinned or basted in? It doesn't take much, and they can be pieced.
Ann Wass
-----Original Message-----
From: Hope Greenberg <h...@uvm.edu>
To: h-costume <h-costume@mail.indra.com>
Sent: Tue, Jul 23, 2013 10:27 pm
Subject: [h-cost] Stumped
Here's a request:
The dilemma: I making a garden variety early 19th century bib/apron
dress of a cotton print. Of course, I have too little fabric so instead
of a long sleeve I decided to do a short sleeve with a detachable
undersleeve in white cotton voile. I went flipping through my collection
of hundreds of images looking for an example. (Note, this is an 1812 or
thereabouts gown, not the turn of the century type where a colored
bodice and white sleeve is common, nor the Princess Charlotte "russian"
dress that looks like our American jumper.) Lo and behold I cannot find
an image of this combination. This, the staple of all JA films! Lots of
short sleeves with long gloves, lots of short sleeves over undersleeves
of the same fabric. Does anyone have an actual documented example?
Thanks!
- Hope
hope.greenb...@uvm.edu
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