Any UK list members see Jeremy Paxman's series on the Victorians last night? He
spoke to a lady who collected Victorian ladies' costume, and much was made of
the discomfort/restriction of wearing a corset. She then appeared in Victorian
underwear and got Jeremy to lace up her corset, supposedly
Any UK list members see Jeremy Paxman's series on the Victorians last
night? He spoke to a lady who collected Victorian ladies' costume, and
much was made of the discomfort/restriction of wearing a corset. She then
appeared in Victorian underwear and got Jeremy to lace up her corset,
What does anyone think about this book as a reference?
Thanks,
Patty
What People Wore When: A Complete Illustrated History of Costume from Ancient
Times to the Nineteenth Century for Every Level of Society by Melissa
Cin wrote:
It's Oscar weekend, theater season, it's almost spring. There must be something!
A mantle of dust trimmed with a fringe of silky black cat hair. :(
Dawn
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From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On
Behalf Of Dawn
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:38 AM
To: Historical Costume
Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing?
Cin wrote:
It's Oscar weekend,
1770's stays, pocket hoops made of striped ticking, calico petticoat,
and yards or ready made quilted silk that I am trying to wrastle into
a quilted petticoat, without it adding 6 to the waist measurement.
The only way it makes sense is to take a ginormous dart from waist to
hem - not
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Dawn wrote:
Cin wrote:
It's Oscar weekend, theater season, it's almost spring. There must be
something!
A mantle of dust trimmed with a fringe of silky black cat hair. :(
Dawn
Isn't the pet hair an assumed? All my embroidery frames end up with a
silky fringe of
Not to be a naysaying jerk or anything, but actually ready-made quilting is
authentic, per se; that doesn't mean the stuff we can get now is the same
thing. But professional quilters in Europe did petticoat panels that were sold,
including exported to America. So no need to feel like you're
Can you cartridge pleat in the extra?
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From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On
Behalf Of Suzi Clarke
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 8:56 AM
To: Historical Costume
Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing?
1770's
When I wear my corset, I first hook up the front, then I get someone to
tighten the back laces. You can just wear it without tightening, but it
won't be as fitted and often you need the tightening to get the girls to
be held in the right place so they don't slip down.:-)
However, this year at
At 20:46 23/02/2009, you wrote:
Not to be a naysaying jerk or anything, but
actually ready-made quilting is authentic, per
se; that doesn't mean the stuff we can get now
is the same thing. But professional quilters in
Europe did petticoat panels that were sold,
including exported to America.
I follow much the same procedure but I tighten the laces on my own corset,
it's easier than teaching somebody else (as nobody else in my house is a
costumer), I've told people before if you can do up your own bra you can
lace up your own Victorian corset (although other eras with a higher back
are
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From: Suzi Clarke s...@suziclarke.co.uk
To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:55:46 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing?
1770's stays, pocket hoops made of striped
Just my $0.05 worth...
I agree about doing up your own corset.. if your laces are long
enough (and they should be) just cross the laces over, hook them over
a door knob, face the door and then you can exert some pull on the
laces as you step backwards, working the laces from top to bottom...
I have just received my author's copy of the 2009 volume of Medieval Clothing
and Textiles journal. This is rather earlier than we expected! I understand
that orders are now in the UK warehouse and are being shipped, and will be at
the publisher's US branch shortly.
Contents of volume 5:
For my current corset (made about 3 years ago) I bought the hardware from
Farthingales in Canada, but more recently I've bought hardware for a cage
crinoline from A Rare Notion in Melbourne http://www.ararenotion.com.au/ and
I was happy with their service.
Elizabeth
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I bought a scarf--green on one end, indigo in the middle and bright
turquoise on the other end. It was a bit stiff, so I decided to rinse it in
cold water to get out whatever was making it stiff. The green and indigo are
colorfast, but the turquoise runs like anything, so much that
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