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Jan. 19th, 2016 06:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotWell, this cardigan is very loose in the waist, but it's warm. Nothing like wool to block the drafts! I was very happy to be wearing it today. It's so cold, I think it got up to about 12F after lunch.
I made an executive decision to move onto dresses in boxes instead of doing the hanging men's clothes. SO MANY BLACK WOOL COATS. Boxes are the best, it's like Christmas except every present is an antique garment. I did the corset box first - unremarkable, there was a child's bustle hoop, an adult's Natural Form hoop, a 1920s(?) pink Thompson's girdle, a white Kabo style 110 (1890s), and a blue Kabo "hipless corset", style 356 (also 1890s; considered a "short" corset for bicycling and riding). Perfectly normal, workaday corsets. Got me excited to make a new 1860s corset in/for May!
Then I went to a box that said it had five things in it. A lie! (The boxes only have accession numbers on them, so I have a little bit of an idea of what's there but it's still a surprise.) There were two - a sapphire blue sailor-esque suit from 1916-1917, and a cross-barred silk dress from probably about 1863 with, you know, those ribbon cockade "buttons" down the front, although it seems to be a remodel. So I ran upstairs and got this 1874 wedding dress I found mashed into a plastic bag on the floor months ago, which has been sitting out for ages, and put that in the box as well. She's kind of a sad thing, but it seems like she might have been sad since before she got here; the note says the owner wore it for her fiftieth anniversary, so maybe it got some rough handling then.
I made an executive decision to move onto dresses in boxes instead of doing the hanging men's clothes. SO MANY BLACK WOOL COATS. Boxes are the best, it's like Christmas except every present is an antique garment. I did the corset box first - unremarkable, there was a child's bustle hoop, an adult's Natural Form hoop, a 1920s(?) pink Thompson's girdle, a white Kabo style 110 (1890s), and a blue Kabo "hipless corset", style 356 (also 1890s; considered a "short" corset for bicycling and riding). Perfectly normal, workaday corsets. Got me excited to make a new 1860s corset in/for May!
Then I went to a box that said it had five things in it. A lie! (The boxes only have accession numbers on them, so I have a little bit of an idea of what's there but it's still a surprise.) There were two - a sapphire blue sailor-esque suit from 1916-1917, and a cross-barred silk dress from probably about 1863 with, you know, those ribbon cockade "buttons" down the front, although it seems to be a remodel. So I ran upstairs and got this 1874 wedding dress I found mashed into a plastic bag on the floor months ago, which has been sitting out for ages, and put that in the box as well. She's kind of a sad thing, but it seems like she might have been sad since before she got here; the note says the owner wore it for her fiftieth anniversary, so maybe it got some rough handling then.
