Saragrace Knauf wrote:
Hi again, I got such good suggestions on the bum roll, I thought I'd solicit
some more ideas on the construction of the surcoat or outer gown (OG) on
this outfit. http://saragrace.us/html/A1_GoldenAgeDressDiary_PAMPics.html
My quandaries with this OG are this.
1.) Is
Saragrace Knauf wrote:
more ideas on the construction of the surcoat or outer gown (OG) on this
outfit. http://saragrace.us/html/A1_GoldenAgeDressDiary_PAMPics.html
My quandaries with this OG are this.
1.) Is that a collar lying on her shoulder? This is best seen in the
first picture
in this period of a black over gown which fits
tightly all the way around.
Thank you for your thougts.
Sg
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From: Dawn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2007 9:46 AM
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Saragrace Knauf wrote:
http://saragrace.us/html/A1_GoldenAgeDressDiary_PAMPics.html
1.) Is that a collar lying on her shoulder? This is best seen in the first
picture in the second row.
I believe so, yes-- I think it's probably cut with a raised neckline at
the front and a half collar
Thanks--the Mickey Mouse remark was in an e-mail I had skipped over.
I reacted that fast because when I directed and costumed The Rivals,
my Lydia Languish wore her lover's miniature on a chain around her
neck and tucked into the bosom of her gown (in one scene she takes it
off and throws
Both have personality. His is laid back with a twinkle of mischief.
De
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By the way, I'm so glad both of these portraits were posted. They
look like kind people and a very happy couple, don't they?
--Ruth Anne
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Susan B. Farmer
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:34 PM
To: Historical Costume
Subject: Re: [h-cost] construction ?
Quoting otsisto [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Anyone have an idea as to how the blue on the plastron is constructed
It looks to me like a stomacher, with the blue ribbon as an applied
decoration. The ribbon is not functional. The gown closes by
pinning it to the stomacher, and the ruching would hide the pins
nicely.
So to construct it, make a stomacher and noodle around with the
ribbon until it
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Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 7:12 AM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] construction ?
It looks to me like a stomacher, with the blue ribbon as an applied
decoration. The ribbon is not functional. The gown closes by
pinning it to the stomacher, and the ruching would hide the pins
nicely.
So
Thank you, everyone. I had a brain [EMAIL PROTECTED] and said plastron and not
stomacher.
:P I think the ribbon in figure eights is what it probably is.
Bjarne, here is a painting of the woman's husband in the same blue.
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/cjackson/l/p-liotard3.htm
They're Swiss, so the
: otsisto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 6:28 PM
Subject: RE: [h-cost] construction ?
Thank you, everyone. I had a brain [EMAIL PROTECTED] and said plastron and not
stomacher.
:P I think the ribbon in figure eights is what
Watch? Isn't that a miniature (portrait)?
--Ruth Anne
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From: otsisto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Dec 13, 2006 12:28 PM
To: Historical Costume [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Thank you, everyone. I had a brain [EMAIL PROTECTED] and said plastron
Someone mentioned that they knew they were tired when they thought the portrait
bracelet was a Mickey Mouse watch.
De
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Watch? Isn't that a miniature (portrait)?
--Ruth Anne
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They're Swiss, so the watch humor was even more humorous to me. :)
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Behalf Of Bjarne og Leif Drews
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 1:18 PM
To: Historical Costume
Subject: Re: [h-cost] construction ?
Hi again,
His shirt buttons are even more interresting to me. Its dorset buttons (
linnen thread buttons). Wich i have on mine two.
Could this collour be a trick
Quoting otsisto [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Anyone have an idea as to how the blue on the plastron is constructed?
Is it a section on material that has a wee bit of gather in the center and
clipped on the sides?
http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/cjackson/l/p-liotard2.htm
You know it's *really* late when you
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