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Earlier this year I was the lucky winner of The Hectic Eclectic's apron giveaway (many thanks Mrs. C!) which inspired the following research regarding 18th century apron strings. I've specifically been looking for examples where ladies have tied their apron strings in the front. Is it a knot with the strings hanging? It is a bow? Is it centered or off center? Did ladies with embroidered aprons tie them in the front or is this a lower class trait? Here are some sources, listed in chron order, that begin to answer these questions. Detail from William Hogarth's The Enraged Musician, 1741 Strings tied in front in a small bow; it looks like the apron dips, which Hallie described in a post earlier this year. Detail from The Enraged Macaroni, 1773 Lewis Walpole Library Accession Number 773.07.13.01.2+ Strings also tied in front and again it looks like there's a small dip in the apron. Detail from A Girl Buying a Ballad, Henry Walton c.1778 Tate Gallery T07594 It looks like the strings are tied in front. Unfortunately I can't tell if the apron dips or if its worn beneath her gown's bodice. A Market Girl Holding A Mallard Duck, 1787 by John Russell Strings tied in a bow. (I love that bonnet!) Detail from At the Inn Door, fourth quarter 18th century by Henry Singleton V&A Accession Number 1834-1900 Strings tied in a small bow. Detail from the print Spring and Winter, from A Collection of Drolleries 1770-1797 Lewis Walpole Library Accession Number 785.10.9.1 Strings tied in a small bow. Detail from Free Women of Color with Their Children and Servants in a Landscape by Agostino Brunias, Brooklyn Museum Accession Number 2010.59 The museum dates this painting as c.1764-1796. Judging by the high crown of the ladies' hats in the center and the high waist of the short gowns on the left, I would guess this painting probably dates from the 1790s. Another example of an apron tied in front that dips and has a bow with short strings. While this is a very light survey of 18th century artwork with aprons, there's enough evidence to suggest that tying apron strings in the front with a small bow is a good choice for someone reenacting the second half of the 18th century who's focusing on a working class impression. So when cutting linen/cotton tape for apron strings, how long should the strings be so they're not too long or too short? For someone my size (medium) the tape could be approximately 88 inches long. This means I need to trim a few inches from my apron strings.
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Robert Dighton: April. From The Months. c.1785.
Bouchardon, Edme, 1698-1762. Vade Mecum at Rome: Sketchbook in 2 volumes & 1 small unbound gathering of 147 drawings & sketches from ancient statues & paintings, 18th C, v.I, p.26, 2006.16:1 (2006.16:1-3)
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I like to root for the underdog, so I’m always comforted to find Satanism in the news. There are, after all, some two billion Christians in the world, and only about a hundred thousand Satanists; if the eternal war between good and evil is a numbers game, then it would seem the good guys have […]
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Many of our posts take a look at the upper echelons of Georgian society, so this time we thought it might be interesting to look at what it would have been like to have worked ‘below stairs…
From the desk of Tracy Hickman: Several recent histories have popularized Georgian England as “The Age of Scandal” with members of the beau monde starring in colorful “stories of gambling, adultery…
