A while back, when I added all of the MFA's Gallerie des Modes plates (minus the ones that are quartered to show four hairstyles) to my fashion history Pinterest boards, I made some non-decade boards where I could group 18th century extant garments, plates, etc. by type. One group was just "misc", as I had … Continue reading The Robe à la Piémontaise
Category: gown
Winifred Scawen Blunt's Gown
When I visited the Albany Institute on Friday to meet the curator, under whom I will be working as an intern, I went up and walked around the galleries - I think my main objective was a second look at the permanent exhibitions Sense of Place: 18th and 19th Century Paintings and Sculpture and Traders and … Continue reading Winifred Scawen Blunt's Gown
Pictures!
For some reason, I sketched out the pink taffeta gown and the interesting corset I examined yesterday. (I used Patterns of Fashion as a reference for the gown but still managed to make the figure too short in the leg ... not sure how.) And I thought I'd post the pictures I took of my … Continue reading Pictures!
Museum Visit – Historic Cherry Hill
Today was my second thesis research visit, this time to the Historic Cherry Hill Collection in Albany. I found some exciting things! - A pink taffeta anglaise with petticoat, late 1770s. It was fairly plain, with some applied scalloped self-fabric trim down the fronts of the skirt and smaller trim at the ends of the … Continue reading Museum Visit – Historic Cherry Hill
ENORMOUS Thesis Progress!
As my batiste came in the mail a few days ago, I felt that it would be procrastination to continue researching cotton's exact place in society instead of sewing. Most of the paper is written, apart from the details of my sewing (of course), so I dug out some lightweight linen and worked out a … Continue reading ENORMOUS Thesis Progress!
Mimic of Modes 