Hello Bay Area Costumers! I loved the costume bazaar last weekend and was
delighted to pick up a great Dickens Faire outfit (and a membership to the
group). Now, a question from a friend of mine is a scout/producer for a company
that makes tv shows for Discovery, TLC, etc. (see below) Can
I would say that the early Victorian period especially the late 1840's would be
the heaviest era for undergarments. By that time the corset was re-emerging as
a longer, more heavily boned object and ladies wore lots of
underskirts/petticoats to achieve the bell skirted look which was in
That is my thought also, 1840s or 50s before the hoop--lots and lots of
starched petticoats, especially, with full corsets chemises.
Ann in CT
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I would say that the early Victorian period especially the late 1840's
My first thought was early 1850's, just before the hoop, as others have
said. But I wonder if, pound for pound, the 1770's and thereabout might
win. Stays that were solidly boned and several layers thick were heavier
than corsets, linen shifts were heavier than chemises, petticoats were worn
I'd ditto the 1840 very early 50s just before the hoop comes in.
For a particularly unique example, Queen Victoria, when she was very
young, commented on the excess weight of her parlementary robes.
That said, I'm also going to put in a bid for late Elizabethan court
style in drum farthingales
How much did bustles weigh?
Kate Pinner
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Subject: [h-cost] Heavy underwear
My first thought was
Bustles may look ungainly but they are effectively half hoop skirts and aren't
very heavy at all. Karen DezomaSeamstrix
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From: Kathryn Pinner pinn...@mccc.edu
To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Heavy underwear
Date: Fri, 2 Sep
The heaviest single article in all my undergarments is a quilted petticoat,
BUT: it's cotton on the outside, cotton batting on the inside. In the
period (1750 to, oh, say 1810), this petticoat would more likely have
had wool batting, and either wool broadcloth or silk on the outsides.
I've
At 02:31 PM 9/2/2011, you wrote:
The heaviest single article in all my undergarments is a quilted
petticoat, BUT: it's cotton on the outside, cotton batting on the
inside. In the
period (1750 to, oh, say 1810), this petticoat would more likely have
had wool batting, and either wool broadcloth
I have a queen-sized wool comforter (wool batting between two layers of
egyptian cotton). It weighs less than the much thinner quilted all-cotton
bedspread.
YMMV,
-Helen/Aidan
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My mother has the king-size, wool stuffed, wool scrap pieced, flannel
backed comforter that my great-grandmother made. The wool stuffing is
hand carded, and laid in swirls. (I noticed when I did some repairs on
it a couple years back.) It's impressively heavy; you might suffocate
under it, but
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