This is perhaps not the most necessary post/series, but I began looking at historical mentions of various types of gowns for my thesis and found so many sources. I thought people might be interested in seeing the many quotes I turned up that relate to various gown fabrics. Linen gowns were close to the bottom … Continue reading The Place of Fabrics: Linen
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The Met redid their website a little while ago, which totally threw off the links to a lot of pictures in my eighteenth century research posts. I plan to go through and download each picture from the museum website and upload it to Blogger at some point, so that a) I'm not hotlinking and b) … Continue reading NB
Stays and Swatches
Today I got some swatches I ordered from Mood Fabrics, and I thought I'd show them off and give my impressions based on them. Plus some WIP pictures of my stays. A few pictures of the Diderot stays I've started: Just two layers of unbleached linen. I'm slightly torn about that now - I wanted … Continue reading Stays and Swatches
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
Mimic of Modes 