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chocolatepotEveryone else is getting a lot more sewing done than me, so I celebrate by posting More Dresses I Read Descriptions Of, That I'm Totally Considering Putting In My ~Future Book~.
I am getting better at filtering and not writing down every single dress. I count that as a success.
Tuesday: (should have posted them yesterday because I've forgotten what most of them are like, oh well)
1977.40.3,4: "dressing sacks" is what it says on the cards - looking them up, I see that they're completely shapeless jackets that you wear while sitting around, having your hair done, etc.
1977.041: reception dress, ca. 1910, black lace
1977.42a-e: wedding dress, handmade, 1899
1978.38.2.1-2: wrapper, ca. 1898
1978.38.19: Callot Soeurs lace dress ca. 1895 - Callot Soeurs are the bomb and I have actually seen this dress. It is frothy and fantastic. The world needs to see it. It also has a pink sash IIRC.
1978.38.22: ensemble 1917-18
.30: velvet dress 1921
.32: afternoon dress 1916
1979.22: evening dress 1905
1979.33.11: negligee 1919
1995.27.1: stomacher - as far as I can tell, this is the only stomacher they have; I think it's labeled 1750-75, I saw it quickly at one point when I was allowed to go to the collections on my own and wandered around for 15 minutes, looking at things. Embroidered.
1979.32.2: corset 1820-50 - broad range, I'd like to see it first but it could be cool.
Wednesday:
1979.33.50a-b: 1929 dress/coat ensemble - in the vein of this coat/dress ensemble from the V&A but lighter - a crepe coat lined with printed chiffon, the same chiffon in the dress.
1979.33.51a-b: evening ensemble, 1929 (similar)
1980.2.2ab: 1899 day dress, pink silk and velvet - it sounds intensely trimmed with that pink velvet.
1980.2.5ab: pink wool suit - ca. 1902, I think; there was something about the decoration that pinged me in the description, and I have seen it and it's very pretty.
1980.2.6: 1910 orchid colored evening dress - well, I need some post-1930 patterns, right.
1981.41: Red Cross uniform, ca 1952 - potentially this could be useful for WWII reenactors?
1981.44: 1833 evening dress - there aren't a lot of dresses from this decade there; I think this one has an interesting gathered/crossover front.
1982.22a-c: wedding dress 1903, ticonderoga/cambridge - this is one of those dresses with a detailed history. The bride was from Ticonderoga and the groom was from Cambridge, which makes this a very ~local history~ dress.
1983.28.1a-b: 1884 Worth costume - I don't even know what this is. From the length of the sleeves I've labeled it a reception dress, but it's got a lace apron and faux-fichu and lace in the elbow-length sleeves, it's clearly going for an 18thc thing.
1983.35.13a-b: wedding dress 1898
1983.35.17: negligee
1984.6.1: wedding dress 1915
1984.19.1a-c: wedding dress from pattern, 1907 - the bride made it herself from a Butterick pattern, and the pattern pieces are in bags in the file.
1984.47.1: wedding dress 1912, aprony - rather similar to the Lucile dress in Diagram LXVII in Waugh, but simpler and with solid foot-long panels in front and back under the waistband.
1986.13.12: nursing dress, 1834 - this seems like it could be very useful to people, perhaps? Obviously there is little call for 1830s reenacting, but the principles could be generalized to the 1860s.
1986.17: 1910 afternoon dress made over from 1890s - I'll be honest, I only have a sketchy idea of what this looks like.
1986.19.1ab: wedding dress italian 1900
I am getting better at filtering and not writing down every single dress. I count that as a success.
Tuesday: (should have posted them yesterday because I've forgotten what most of them are like, oh well)
1977.40.3,4: "dressing sacks" is what it says on the cards - looking them up, I see that they're completely shapeless jackets that you wear while sitting around, having your hair done, etc.
1977.041: reception dress, ca. 1910, black lace
1977.42a-e: wedding dress, handmade, 1899
1978.38.2.1-2: wrapper, ca. 1898
1978.38.19: Callot Soeurs lace dress ca. 1895 - Callot Soeurs are the bomb and I have actually seen this dress. It is frothy and fantastic. The world needs to see it. It also has a pink sash IIRC.
1978.38.22: ensemble 1917-18
.30: velvet dress 1921
.32: afternoon dress 1916
1979.22: evening dress 1905
1979.33.11: negligee 1919
1995.27.1: stomacher - as far as I can tell, this is the only stomacher they have; I think it's labeled 1750-75, I saw it quickly at one point when I was allowed to go to the collections on my own and wandered around for 15 minutes, looking at things. Embroidered.
1979.32.2: corset 1820-50 - broad range, I'd like to see it first but it could be cool.
Wednesday:
1979.33.50a-b: 1929 dress/coat ensemble - in the vein of this coat/dress ensemble from the V&A but lighter - a crepe coat lined with printed chiffon, the same chiffon in the dress.
1979.33.51a-b: evening ensemble, 1929 (similar)
1980.2.2ab: 1899 day dress, pink silk and velvet - it sounds intensely trimmed with that pink velvet.
1980.2.5ab: pink wool suit - ca. 1902, I think; there was something about the decoration that pinged me in the description, and I have seen it and it's very pretty.
1980.2.6: 1910 orchid colored evening dress - well, I need some post-1930 patterns, right.
1981.41: Red Cross uniform, ca 1952 - potentially this could be useful for WWII reenactors?
1981.44: 1833 evening dress - there aren't a lot of dresses from this decade there; I think this one has an interesting gathered/crossover front.
1982.22a-c: wedding dress 1903, ticonderoga/cambridge - this is one of those dresses with a detailed history. The bride was from Ticonderoga and the groom was from Cambridge, which makes this a very ~local history~ dress.
1983.28.1a-b: 1884 Worth costume - I don't even know what this is. From the length of the sleeves I've labeled it a reception dress, but it's got a lace apron and faux-fichu and lace in the elbow-length sleeves, it's clearly going for an 18thc thing.
1983.35.13a-b: wedding dress 1898
1983.35.17: negligee
1984.6.1: wedding dress 1915
1984.19.1a-c: wedding dress from pattern, 1907 - the bride made it herself from a Butterick pattern, and the pattern pieces are in bags in the file.
1984.47.1: wedding dress 1912, aprony - rather similar to the Lucile dress in Diagram LXVII in Waugh, but simpler and with solid foot-long panels in front and back under the waistband.
1986.13.12: nursing dress, 1834 - this seems like it could be very useful to people, perhaps? Obviously there is little call for 1830s reenacting, but the principles could be generalized to the 1860s.
1986.17: 1910 afternoon dress made over from 1890s - I'll be honest, I only have a sketchy idea of what this looks like.
1986.19.1ab: wedding dress italian 1900
