Dress in 18thC Stockholm

Research into 18th century European (Continental and Swedish) clothing and fashion, period patterns and fabrics.

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Showing posts with label stays. Show all posts

Showing posts with label stays. Show all posts

10 March 2018

HSM 2018 #2: The Amazing Garsault Stays

My Garsault stays, worn over a working class shift and an under-petticoat from a 1990s Ikea fabric based on an 18th century print...

20 November 2017

Continental stays 2: The Garsault stays pattern

M. de Garsault, Art du Tailleur (1769), plate 12 (detail). Source: gallica.bnf.fr / BnF . The stays in Garsault's 1769 "Art d...

06 October 2017

Continental stays 1: Diderot à la Waugh

Waugh's pattern in Corsets and Crinolines , page 40. Norah Waugh's classic book Corsets and Crinolines (1954, reprinted 1987)...

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Anna-Carin: I enjoy reading about clothes of the past, and speculating about how they were cut and sewn at a time when fabrics were much more expensive than they are today.

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