I am making myself a version of a 1909 Directoire dress to go to my
sisters wedding in and the patter calls for the bodice to be boned. I
was going to wear a corset underneath, partly becuase it is so much
easier to stand up for long periods of time, do I still need to bone?
Does anyone know
I will definately be going, date to be decided but will give a report once done.
I'll also have a peak at the exhibition catalogue and let people know
whether it worth getting or not.
Rachel
On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Linda Walton
linda.wal...@dsl.pipex.com wrote:
A new exhibition opens
As soon as I decide which dressmakers dummy I am going to be buying it
will be wearing a rework of the 1909 directoire evening dress in the
VA together with a jacket (pattern to be worked out) of a beautiful
long jacket from the same year showing in Journal des demoisselles
(picture in Cut of
Does anyone have any advice on what to look out for when purchasing a dress
makers dummy. My mother has offered to buy me one in exchange for remaking
a jacket for my sisters wedding. I am in the UK.
Thanks
Rachel
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I tend to make my own rice starch. It is quite cheap and easy, either boil
up some short grain rice in water until it breaks down, strain through
muslin and paint on. I have used this to fix Elizabethan hair styles as
well as ruffs and it is wonderful, combs straight out. The quicker cheats
way
Just jumping in on this one but I think the colour red as being better is a
hangover from an earlier period. Red flannel had been used in the
treatment of disease. Red flannel underskirts certainly appear earlier
than the Victorian period.
Rachel
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