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My favorite surviving 18th century stays can be found in the Victoria & Albert museums collections. As my previous stays were starting to s...
Earlier this year Kendra and I found out that we had both planned a redingote after a sketch of Marie-Antoinette for this year. I had ori...
Maria-Theresia, Empress of Austria: - My daughter, what are you doing down there? What despair! Marie Antoinette: - I was so thirsty of t...
So I finally finished my new 1780's stays. At first I stated sewing these like crazy but I don't know why I got so lazy by the time I had a...
Sewing historical costumes and alternative fashion.
Hats played an important role in fashion and I have a lovely collection of hat fashion plates from the 1780's to display today. Th...
Making a pair of 18th Century stays, from concept to finished product.
Sewing historical costumes and alternative fashion.
Description Hand-sewn 1780's style stays. These stays are made of three layers of linen and will eventually have a fourth layer consisting of a loose lining. The exterior is a lovely Italian linen dyed by me to a reddish pink to mimic some extant pairs of stays from this period. The boning is pounded ash from the ever-obliging Nate of Nate's Nantucket baskets. The binding and seam covering is white lambskin. All seams are sewn in linen thread. The boning channels are stitched in back-stitch. The stays are cut to give more lift and shape than the stays of earlier in the century. To do this the boning of the front panel splays out instead of all going in exactly the same direction. These stays also have an additional partial set of eyelets at the center front which can be used to adjust the bust measurement, though in reality they are mostly decorative. I originally intended these stays to have straps. My goal was to model the straps off a pair of stays at the V&A where the they are not of a pieces with the body of the stays but seem to have been stitched on separately in the back and then attached in the front. At the moment these stays fit quite well without the straps and my attempts to add them have so far been unsuccessful. I would like to if possible simply because most stays of this period do in fact have straps. The more observant viewer will notice that these stays are not fully boned and that on the side panels wrinkles form in the un-boned spaces. I believe this is due to my not having cut the panels on the correct grain which is frustrating but doesn't pose any structural problems so I guess I'll just know not to do that next time.
This post is mostly about photos of the gown because I already explained the construction and other detailed stuff about it in the earlier p...
A blog devoted to all sorts of sewing projects, including historical costuming, and dairy goats.
While searching through my vintage French fashion plates I came across a nice selection that displayed shorter skirts and the showing of a ...
This is a half scale dress from the film 'The Duchess' with Kiera Knightly. This is her Blue Fox campaign outfit that, historically, would have been wor... the Duchess of Devonshire - 1780's
Maria Niforos - Fine Antique Lace, Linens & Textiles : Early Items # EI-20 Circa 1780's, Fine Muslin Panel w/ Tambour Work
Lot 22 - Two pairs of silk breeches, late 18th century, - Estimate 700-1000 GBP
Lot 66 - A pair of stylish black satin high heeled - Estimate 1500-2000 GBP
La première étape de réalisation du costume est le gilet à revers brodé, Un petit historique Le pourpoint ancêtre du gilet, rembourré et se portant aussi sous l’armure pour se tenir chaud, est apparut vers le XVe siècle. Au milieu du XVIIe siècle le pourpoint disparaît pour trois vêtements qui constituent l'Habit à la Française.…
