Love the idea of a ginormous court gown with 2m wide panniers on a
very small woman. I wore one that large for a LARP. I rented the
gown from ACT (that's a theater company here in San Francisco) that
had made the gown for the horrible grasping wife character in The
Imaginary Invalid. What fun
I always love these huge panniers. I think they look like sofas - space
for a chap to perch on either side!
Jean
On 26/07/2011 14:02, Leif og Bjarne Drews wrote:
I dont remember before i left h-costume last, if i told you my plans for making a
court dress from 1750ies? I have baught 20
At 09:02 AM 7/26/2011, you wrote:
Now i am home and i have off cause tryed to meassure and its going
to be about 2 meters wide at waist level, and (my god) 6 m. 80 cm.
in cirkumference at the foot bone.
I have ben curious about the size for a long time, but i had not
dreamed it would be that
Hi,
Blanche Payne made a draft pattern of the pannier in her book History of
Fashion If some of you saw the exhibition Fashioning Fashion they had a
very intricated pannier pleated into the french shaped pannier, the pannier
of Louisa Ulrika is excactly like this, only larger off cause. It is
