Thank you so much! This really helps! Lauren M. Walker [email protected]
On Sep 17, 2013, at 7:25 PM, Katy Bishop wrote: > I found an illustration from the Delineator from 1889, July that shows a > similar hat, with the same off center wavy brim, from the back, and it > seems to have a very low crown. Leghorn is a type of straw. > > Katy > > > On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Emily Gilbert <[email protected]>wrote: > >> I'm not an expert on this topic, but looking at the link to the fashion >> notes for the year, which refer to the "curious and startling" open-crowned >> coronet bonnet (toward the bottom of the left-hand column on that page), >> I'd say it's reasonably safe to assume that your leghorn does have a crown! >> >> Emily >> >> >> >> On 9/17/2013 2:11 PM, Lauren Walker wrote: >> >>> 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<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<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 >>> [email protected] >>> >>> >>> >>> 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 >>>> <[email protected]>**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<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 >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>>> h-costume mailing list >>>>> [email protected] >>>>> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/**listinfo/h-costume<http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume> >>>>> >>>>> ______________________________**_________________ >>>> h-costume mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/**listinfo/h-costume<http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume> >>>> >>> >>> >>> ______________________________**_________________ >>> h-costume mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/**listinfo/h-costume<http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume> >>> >>> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> h-costume mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/**listinfo/h-costume<http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume> >> > > > > -- > Katy Bishop, Vintage Victorian > [email protected] www.VintageVictorian.com > Custom reproduction gowns of the Victorian Era. > Publisher of the Vintage Dress Series books. > _______________________________________________ > 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
