#antique garments

[sewlastcentury]

The past week's work: three digitized patterns from antique garments! - The 1840s bodice is 34/36" bust - 31" waist (pattern HERE) - The 1880s is 44" bust - 32" waist (pattern HERE) - the 1920s dress is 47" bust - 48" waist (pattern HERE)

All three patterns are currently with testers for the next two weeks and after that I will be able to put them up on Etsy!

I have seven other antiques waiting for patterning (and two more on the way) - just have to decide what to work on next....

[victorianymph]

from my graduate collection, ‘Beyond the Visible’, inspired by 19th century female spiritualists

[walzerjahrhundert]

Grands Magasins Nouveautés C. Paventa, Rome

Two-piece dress in green velvet

circa 1900

[fashion-plates]

Met Costume Institute

Walking dress. British. ca. 1830

[ineffable-inspirations]

Extremely rare woman's tie in muslin embroidered with blue flowers and branches. Shaped with Ariadne's thread covered with sky blue silk. Identical choker closed by a hook.

1832-1833

[marzipanandminutiae]

Dear Marzi,

I know you want to do Renaissance Revival sleeve slashes with green silk puffs (bordered with lace) on your new bodice. it WOULD look very very cool. but consider:

You would need to order more green silk and it would not be done in time for holiday travel

IT IS A WINTER BODICE, YOU ABSOLUTE PEABRAIN

DO NOT BREAK UP THE NICE COZY WOOL SLEEVES WITH NON-INSULATING-WEIGHT SILK

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU

WE'RE NOT EVEN GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT YOU'RE USING ANTIQUE CHANTILLY LACE AGAIN DESPITE KNOWING THAT THAT SHIT IS AS BRITTLE AS APRIL ICE

"wah wah they don't make it in non-plastic anymore though!!!" YOU ARE A MENACE TO INNOCENT LACE IS WHAT YOU ARE, MADAME

get your fucking act together,

Marzi.

[rowzien]

This is an 1890s bodice made of green wool with a linen and/or cotton lining. The front and cuffs are silk. It has steel boning and decorative glass beading. There is a small section of velvet on the inner front. There’s also a small pocket on the left side (from the wearer’s perspective). Not only is this garment gorgeous and unique for the vibrant colors, but also because the beading seems to have been added by the original owner. Hence why it’s laid overtop of striped silk on the collar. It overall has a very handmade and loved feel, it has lots of piecing, the boning was patched after busting out within its life. It seems likely it was dyed with arsenic, but I don’t have materials to test.

More detailed pictures below

[fashion-history-germany]

Gown of Countess Palatine Dorothea Sabina of Neuburg

olive green silk velvet with gold trim, sleeves with yellow, slashed atlas silk lining, green taffeta underskirt decorated with silver lace

c. 1598

From the burial place of the Counts Palatine of Neuburg in Lauingen, Germany

Bayerisches Nationalmuseum

[snailthimbles]

i am about to fall so far down the fiber arts rabbit hole

[needle-salad-rnd]

Late Victorian - Edwardian garment collection at Porthcawl museum

A beautiful collection [not pictured] bright purple, velvet wedding dress brought in by a local who had kept it for his great grandmother in his attic.

[historic-on-main]

"vintage made to order" made to order means it's new, bitch

"vintage-inspired" okay WHAT vintage??? is the style victorian gothic??? 70s disco?? medieval??????? "vintage" isn't an era you dumb bastard

"vintage pre-2010" I am going to beat you to death with a calendar

"vintage-looking" you mean broken?? you mean cracked??? you mean "might be original or a recreation but I can't tell"? you mean "I got it for 2 dollars at a thrift store and will now try to pass it off as a valuable antique for 200"?????????

[sewlastcentury]

On a roll! This pattern is [CLOSED] for testers - the original garment is a c. 1910 brassiere (or corset cover) with a 47” (119cm) bust and 40” (101cm) high waist. It’s deceptively simple - that cross-bust entredeux lace hides two pairs of darts, and there’s also an appliquéd underarm guard. I’m definitely going to make a version for myself at some point <3

Edit: Now on Etsy here!

I received some tester photos back but none of them are actually the right size for this garment, so holding off on posting them here. (Both have large busts and comparatively small waists, so while they can wear it, it doesn't fit them as it should.)

[costumedump]

Wedding Gown For Crown Princess Lovisa

June 29, 1850

Silk Stockings For Queen Lovisa At Her Coronation

May 3, 1860

The Royal Armoury

Stockholm, Sweden

[walzerjahrhundert]

House of Worth

Afternoon suit

French

circa 1905                            

[nightmarist]

bruh

[rabbits-of-negative-euphoria]

ok I gotta get this off my chest: dresses made for women who are history enthusiasts (or cottagecore, or royalcore) are often juvenile-looking. like, yes, your model does look like she stepped out of an updated interpretation of the 19th century. but as a 7-year old girl.

now obviously you need the right undergarments to pull off any adult period silhouette and most of us aren’t trying to. I’m just saying all the cuts of these “vintage” dresses are specific to children in those eras. it’s like they decided that because the period silhouette isn’t possible to achieve in the modern day, they’ll just go for no mature silhouettes at all.