I was looking through an August 1913 issue of a French high-fashion magazine.
In the text was a description of a fashion having a lobster back. I do not
read French very well. Can someone please read the following paragraph and let
me know what is being referred to as having a lobster back.
What is being described is not the coat but the hat, a tiny version of the
hats of those English soldiers nicknamed 'lobster backs.' Those would be the
redcoats, the English soldiers of the 18th-19th century notorious here during
the American Revolution.
--R.A. Baumgartner
scholar gypsy and
I'm pondering 16th century flat fronted bodies and kirtles, and the
pair of bodies of Dorothea von Neuburg on page 113 of Patterns of
fashion.
The boning comes up only to the bottom of the breast curves. The
Tudor Tailor references this boning pattern and says it's important
to
HI Isabella,
Thanks for these leads. Yes, that is the gown I believe it is based
on. I've had people comment on the similarities in the past but had
forgotten. I want to make another Bronzino, I love this style.
Bye for now,
Aylwen Gardiner-Garden
Earthly Delights Historic Dance Academy
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Hi De
Thanks for those leads. I'm thinking off taking off the tabs at the
waist as they were an afterthought as the rest of my dance group wears
English elizabethan. Then make a partlet (?) like in the Bronzino
paintings.
Bye for now,
Aylwen Gardiner-Garden
Earthly Delights Historic Dance
I have made the corset and it gives a little more room like a few mm but
not that you actually see it while wearing.
But I think it is a little more comfortable than having the reeds
running up to the top.
And the top is less stiff.
Margo Anderson wrote:
I'm pondering 16th century flat
I agree with Deredere, this kind of pattern is more comfortable while keeping
the front straight. Another difference is that the breasts aren't pushed up so
much as they would be with a full-boned corset.
A picture of my version of Dorothea bodies is here:
