Thanks Hanna, Fran, Kathleen, Katy Suzi for the pics, pattern
pointers descriptions. I'm glad to know it's ties. I'd been
considering thread bars little hooks or even a little chemisette
contraption. The MFA puffs look like a comfortable minimal
solution.
Katy, I'll see you in a few
Can anyone post a link to a photo of a dress that one would use sleeve puffs
with? These are funny little things, and I'm wondering when you'd need them.
Claudine
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Ladies a few gents,
I'm trying to find a better picture of a single garment with cotton
sleeve puffs filled with down. There's a tiny picture in Payne
showing a gal in all a mix of c1825-33 unmentionables. She's wearing
a short sleeved something with down-filled crescents to make those
late
Cynthia,
there´s a pair of silk sleeve puffs in the Museum
of Fine Arts in Boston, though. Unfortunately, I
lost the link to it, but I made a kind of
reproduction of these and ended up with an oval,
70 by 40 cm, gathered all around and stitched to
a triangular piece, 12 cm high and 16 wide
I recall the photo from memory but don't have time to dig it out. The
original mid and late 1820s sources I used for _The Lady's Stratagem_
describe supporting large sleeves with buckram or in one case, stiffened
gauze.
Fran
Lavolta Press
New book on 1820s clothing!
The sleeve puffs from the MFA in Boston (can't find a pic on-line),
which I last saw in person about 15 years ago, were made of white,
fine china silk and stuffed with down, they weighed almost nothing.
There were no obvious attachment ties or the like. They were
basically shaped like a dress
Found them!
I have a pair of antique down puffs like the ones shown in the Kyoto book.
They each have three ties about 8 long that are mated with matching ones in
the sleeve head. they work wonderfully well.
kathleen
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From: Lavolta Press f...@lavoltapress.com
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Thanks, and they do have the ties. Great.
Katy
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Hanna Zickermann h.zickerm...@gmx.de wrote:
Found them!
