I've posted about reenactor ladies who I think are getting the stages of dress correctly...
http://ilikethethingsilike.blogspot.com/2011/08/beautiful-lds-pioneer-trek-reenactor.html
http://ilikethethingsilike.blogspot.com/2011/08/another-beautiful-lady-reenactor.html
http://ilikethethingsilike.blogspot.com/2011/06/another-lady-gets-it-right.html
http://ilikethethingsilike.blogspot.com/2010/04/polish-lady-gets-dressed-in-1860s.html
Here is another set of photos from "Victorian Unmentionables - What Lies Beneath" on the Facebook page of New York Nineteenth Century Society
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150620265253288.413761.257925828287&type=3
in which the lady starts from the chemise up to a well dressed 1860s lady. The best photos are here showing how the drawers go over the bottom of the chemise and the corset pulls it all together literally.
It all looks a little "frumpy" until the corset goes on....
http://ilikethethingsilike.blogspot.com/2011/08/beautiful-lds-pioneer-trek-reenactor.html
http://ilikethethingsilike.blogspot.com/2011/08/another-beautiful-lady-reenactor.html
http://ilikethethingsilike.blogspot.com/2011/06/another-lady-gets-it-right.html
http://ilikethethingsilike.blogspot.com/2010/04/polish-lady-gets-dressed-in-1860s.html
Here is another set of photos from "Victorian Unmentionables - What Lies Beneath" on the Facebook page of New York Nineteenth Century Society
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150620265253288.413761.257925828287&type=3
in which the lady starts from the chemise up to a well dressed 1860s lady. The best photos are here showing how the drawers go over the bottom of the chemise and the corset pulls it all together literally.
It all looks a little "frumpy" until the corset goes on....
It's some rig to get into and a lot of it!
ReplyDeleteTo think I thought three layers of paint on a miniature was an effort! ;)
ReplyDeleteMust have weighed a ton! Imagine wearing all that when it´s high sommer!!!!
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paul
This is why the Victorians had such a bad attitude about sex: it was just too much work to get to it. After all that effort the men just couldn't be bothered anymore and had lost interest.
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