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From one of the blogs I follow, a list of primary sources of interest for historical costumers
https://www.sewhistorically.com/free-patterns-primary-sources-for-historical-costumers/
(mostly #victorian / #edwardian)
Free Patterns & Primary Sources For Historical Costumers - Sew Historically
This is a list of primary sources for historical costumers – like antique books & newspapers – that I’ve found over the past few decades and that I find most helpful when researching a new topic – with a focus on the Edwardian era.Lina (Sew Historically)
I haven't finished my Augusta stays yet.
The Cassandra Stays pattern has been released.
https://thedreamstress.com/2024/02/meet-the-cassandra-stays/
what is going to happen?
Meet the Cassandra Stays! - The Dreamstress
You asked for it, here it is! The Cassandra Stays: a 1760s-70s appropriate stays pattern with a front-lacing option!The Dreamstress
Aaaaaaand I've done all of the boning channels on the #AugustaStays I started in (checks for the old post) November 2022! And one spool of thread was enough! (I have another, luckily, as I plan to use the same thread for other seams, but for those I would also have had alternatives)
And since I took the picture I've also finished the eyelets on one of the center back pieces, and added boning to both of those and to the side fronts (but the sun has set, so there will be no more pictures until tomorow).
Now I only need to finish the rest of the eyelets, and most importantly to sew the whole thing :D
Maybe in January 2025 it will be done :D If I don't get distracted.
My aunt went on a holiday, and as a souvenir she brought me this
I have to make at least one of them, right? (eventually.)
I wonder how widespread they were.
“The same difficulty appears when marked waist linings are used. These linings may be purchased by the yard,on which is traced the entire waist and it can soon be cut out and basted together and alterations made in it.”
From Annie E Myers. Home dressmaking; a complete guide to household sewing. Chicago, C.H. Sergel & company, 1892. pag 48
https://archive.org/details/homedressmakingc00myer
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For the second attempt I enlarged them (and then I didn't do the second mockup).
Now, they are below-the-knee length, so each leg is just above 80 cm long and it would probably fit on the fabric (there is some leeway because it's the leftovers from the jacket, it's not a straight cut).
The two leg sides for the wider version are not going to fit on the fabric side by side, but the original one may, maybe, possibly with a tiny bit of piecing, or by using the wiggle room.
I would have to be creative with the waistband, but I think I can get the various facings etc. from the jacket scraps, probably, maybe.
First I'll finish the jacket, so if disasters happen I have a safety net to recut pieces, and if I find I need something more for the accessories I can get it.
But afterwards, if I still have this much fabric, I can probably try it.
Unless I get other ideas.
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ok, apparently the accepted way to get a pattern to be transferred on fabric with tailor's tacks is to remain in the same room with the fabric and actually do it, with no interruptions. who could have thought!
(yes, the green tint on the photo still comes from the #pinephone and its updated software)
now it's tea time, and then maybe before this evening I'll cut everything out and move on to cutting the lining. if I don't have to do other things (such as maybe look at what happened to the pinephone camera software? maybe).
Have I ever mentioned how much I love *having marked* the seamlines on fabric with tailor's tacks?
and how much I hate actually doing it? :D
it took me the whole day to lay the pattern on the fabric and start doing that little bit, thanks to interruptions and procrastionation.
(also, apparently I got the problematic update on my #pinephone that broke taking pictures :D )
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/82081
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O224503/sleeve-puff-unknown/
and I know that there are some similar ones (as well as ones with the wire visible) from the 1890s, but I can only find pinterest links for most of them, except for
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/83088
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