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Today was EXCELLENT
I was not expecting much of the Farmers' Museum, because it's a museum about farmers, right? It's probably going to go back to the 1880s, maybe have a few 1860s dresses ...
They're actually a decent-sized institution with a large costume collection! They had out seven or eight boxes and we went through all of them, and then I set-to and started patterning:
- ca. 1795 open robe of glazed cotton with a floral print
- very very short (ca. 1800 or so) shortgown/bedgown of linen with a woven check
- pink satin quilted petticoat with six vegetal motifs on the bottom (two patterns, alternating) and pointed arches in rows above them (similar to this one)
- matching gown and petticoat of pink satin with deeply pointed back (in gown), with applied white satin zig-zag-edged bands around bottom of sleeves and petticoat and on skirt front edges
So this fills a lot of holes. 1790s non-muslin gown, anglaise with a full waist seam, quilted petticoat, bedgown. The satin gown strikes me as more high-fashion than the usual silk gowns I come across - not just because it's a step up in fabric, but because those appliqués would be pretty time-intensive and remind me of fashion plates like this or this.
And they have more! There's a white satin sacque, a silk 1790s gown I didn't get a good look at, a couple of en fourreau gowns, and a more intricately-quilted petticoat. So I'm probably going to go back sometime soon (despite the two-hour drive).
They're actually a decent-sized institution with a large costume collection! They had out seven or eight boxes and we went through all of them, and then I set-to and started patterning:
- ca. 1795 open robe of glazed cotton with a floral print
- very very short (ca. 1800 or so) shortgown/bedgown of linen with a woven check
- pink satin quilted petticoat with six vegetal motifs on the bottom (two patterns, alternating) and pointed arches in rows above them (similar to this one)
- matching gown and petticoat of pink satin with deeply pointed back (in gown), with applied white satin zig-zag-edged bands around bottom of sleeves and petticoat and on skirt front edges
So this fills a lot of holes. 1790s non-muslin gown, anglaise with a full waist seam, quilted petticoat, bedgown. The satin gown strikes me as more high-fashion than the usual silk gowns I come across - not just because it's a step up in fabric, but because those appliqués would be pretty time-intensive and remind me of fashion plates like this or this.
And they have more! There's a white satin sacque, a silk 1790s gown I didn't get a good look at, a couple of en fourreau gowns, and a more intricately-quilted petticoat. So I'm probably going to go back sometime soon (despite the two-hour drive).