#underpinnings

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

Corset, c.1890-1905

Made by Maria Marcel, Paris. Silk, silk satin, steel boning, lace.

via university of new hampshire

[gentlyepigrams]

Today's outfit of the day is this 1957 Jaques Fath evening dress worn by Lady Gladwyn, the wife of a British ambassador to Paris when hosting the Queen and Prince Phillip at the Louvre. It is made of lilac lace with a silk petticoat and a velvet sash. The underpinnings are as beautiful as the dress itself, featuring a corset bodice and a petticoat of various layers of netting (two in the front and five in the back attached to a pink lining). The hem is also lined with wire to keep its shape. Via the V&A.

[photozoi]

Flapjack, Hillstream loach, flipside

[blondebrainpowered]

Boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris. ca. 1912

Photographer: Eugene Atget

[poetryincostume]

Princess Zelda, 2020

False combinations with s-bend corset

Organic cotton/linen, cotton dobby, cotton lace, silk thread, satin ribbon

Silk matka, cotton coutil, cotton poplin, satin ribbon, cotton lace, antique brass suspenders

[realhistoricalpatterns]

Pattern for a (riding) Habit Shirt for a Dress, Lady's Magazine September 1812.

[kitchen-scamp-scraps]

A shift, stays, and quilted petticoat project from grad school. My summer housing had this field of dandelions next door, it was early pandemic and my roommate and I weren't going anywhere so obviously a whole evening became a photoshoot.

[rosesutherlandwrites]

I just saw a post that reminds me: I need to have more Historical Underwear Breakfast. The last one made me so happy, and I need an excuse to find myself a wider assortment of old-school underpinnings.