Yesterday, in passing, I posted a link to a corset: MMA 2000.169.2 When I went into the library to look for a book on walking sticks, I wandered in the fashion history section and noticed Corsets: A Visual History, which features pages and pages of corset advertisements. There was one in a National (that's the … Continue reading Mildly interesting corset identification
Category: undergarments
Early Brassieres
After adjusting my corset pattern this morning so that it would be an inch higher in the front (I realized I had had the whole corset mockup up too high before, and it was actually not as mid-bust as I'd thought), I hesitated. Do I really want to do it? I thought I'd look into … Continue reading Early Brassieres
Thesis Update – Nearly There!
I probably would have been at this point several days ago, but I went with the Theory "batiste" from my swatches, and it proved to be more like a tightly-woven percale, and I was having the hardest time getting pins and needles into it. Let this be a lesson: always test a swatch by pleating … Continue reading Thesis Update – Nearly There!
Lessons learned
After wearing my 18th century outfit for four or five hours yesterday, I think I've learned some things about fit, etc. that I can take into account the next time I make something. Shift: - the neckline should be much wider, like almost-falling-off-my-shoulders wider Stays: - the problem I'm having, shape-wise, seems to be stemming … Continue reading Lessons learned
1790s Shift
So as it says in my bio over there, I've done everything for my M. A. except my thesis/qualifying paper. In my program, there are a lot of options for that: you can do a strictly academic research paper, or conserve a difficult object, or put together an exhibition proposal - pretty much anything sufficiently … Continue reading 1790s Shift
Mimic of Modes 