Hi, Yes, the brim is wavy, but apparently that's a way of styling the "leghorn flat", since the written description calls it a "flat". (It's Fig. 2 in the descriptions here.) http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015004176882;view=1up;seq=185
So frequently, the descriptions assume we know the contemporaneous interpretation of the terms; they knew how this season's leghorn was shaped, and weren't thinking of us 120 years later trying to figure it out! The previous issue's general discussion of fashion notes that the leghorn flat has made it's annual debut, and this year is twisted and bent as suits the wearer's fancy. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015004176882;view=1up;seq=86 I think I'm going with light, flexible straw -- that part of the definition of "leghorn" seems to have stayed pretty constant -- and hoping to use millinery wire to get the bends in the brim to stay put. Lauren M. Walker lauren.wal...@comcast.net On Sep 17, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Lynn Downward wrote: > As I recall, leghorn describes the type of straw the hat is made of. Also, > that brim is wavy, not flat at all. It's a gorgeous hat! > > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Lauren Walker > <lauren.wal...@comcast.net>wrote: > >> Hi, >> Working on the last of the four 19th-century fashion plates I'm recreating >> as doll outfits! I would like to check in with those more familiar with >> 19th-century millinery about the hat. It's an 1889 "flat leghorn", >> according to Godey's text; I'm trying to confirm that it has a low flat >> crown rather than an open one or a completely flat one. >> (figure on the right): >> http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015004176882;view=1up;seq=109 >> Any thoughts? >> Thank you! >> (The third outfit was a nightmare; I remade it four times. Eventually I >> got the chiffon pleated in a satisfactory manner using a pleating board and >> plenty of starch, but no heat. There will be photos of all once the full >> project is done and the gift given to its intended recipient.) >> >> Thanks again for all your aid. This has been so much fun! Even the pleat >> nightmare. >> Lauren >> >> >> Lauren M. Walker >> lauren.wal...@comcast.net >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> h-costume mailing list >> h-costume@mail.indra.com >> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume >> > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
