1880s Women's Fashion

[Music] hello everyone and welcome to the northeast georgia history center my name is marie walker and i am the adam a imster education center director here and today i'm going to show you how how do you get dressed in the 1880s we're having technical differences all right we're good are we good now yeah we're good i can see talking okay today i'm going to show you how to get dressed in the 1880s several months ago i showed you how to get dressed in the 1860s and you might notice that there are some similarities but there are also some major differences so right here we're going to start with what i am currently wearing so i'm currently wearing a chimneys and pandaloons pantalettes pair of drawers and that is what you start out with that is your foundational layers we will then pile on more as we go on this is what you're going to start off with this style of chinese is a little bit different than the one that i was wearing in the 1860s when the 1860s had more of a cut off the shoulder and that's because for evening dresses and such of this time that time period it was going to be very much off the shoulder it's um very much about the width of the shoulder here we're going back to height instead of width we have height and that's kind of the main idea for the 1880s is that you have a lot of well height then it's not shown in clothing it's shown in the hair and that is the the main focal point so you have shemises like this you have shemises that are still off the shoulder because for evening dresses and such you do still have the off-the-shoulder necklines and um of course the palettes also in this era you start seeing the first things that are called combinations i am now old-fashioned wearing asian meats and drawers while people still still absolutely did it not everyone adopts the new trend or fad the moment that it comes out and i always try to remind people of that is when did you get your first smartphone was that the day that it came out no we adapt over time so as long as you know you're wearing something that was popular right before that i still think that it's historically acceptable and correct for for someone i'm just uh i like my chamise and my drawers and i'm not willing to change yet but it is interesting that these things called combinations have started to appear in the bustle era and you'll see why it's called the bustle era in a moment um combinations though yeah even though i'm not wearing it is basically just a chemise sewn to your panelets so instead of having uh them both different here is basically there would be a seam right here and all of this fabric would just go away so it just it would look basically like this without all of this fabric and that would be what a combination looks like and it would be one piece that you put on those are then popular from the 1870s 1880s ish to into the 1900s into the edwardian era so um that is a little bit about the underpinnings that i am currently wearing the next thing that we're going to do i notice that i'm saying support structures i'm saying underpinnings um foundations and these are the foundational layers in which the dress is built upon the dress is really an architectural structure especially in the 1860s and the 1880s you have to build it you have to have a good foundation to build it off of so we have this of course this is going to be used it's going to be closest to my skin it's going to protect my skin it's also going to protect the dress because people sweat people have sweated for as long as people have been people so we don't want the dress to get all sweaty because then we have to wash the dress and it's much easier to wash these very plain not fancy fabrics than to wash the very delicate very fine fabrics that are made out of the outer dress but first things first well actually we're going to put on our shoes and our socks before that um because with before corset is usually the rule i sometimes where do i put my shoes oh i found them they were hiding so here i have my stockings now these are my stockings that i use when i do my 1700s clothing and reenactment and i have chosen them specifically for 1880s even though you would be like why it's 100 years out of fashion well it's because i wanted to talk to you about how the 1770s play a major role in the fashion of the 1870s and the 1880s it is now a hundred years since america has become a nation and for anyone who is living at the the bicentennial of the 200 year anniversary you know how big of a deal that was it was also a huge deal when america reached 100 years old especially right after having a civil war where we almost didn't make it so the 1770s came back into fashion people were having that revolutionary spirit you'll see engagements on dresses like the lace ruffles around the sleeves the sleeves come back shorter it's different it's definitely its own distinct fashion but it's highly influenced by the 1770s in the 1870s and going into the 1880s you still have a carryover from that and for that reason i have my cloaked stocking that i wear people would still wear indeed stockings like this clock stockings questionable if they would avoid those depends on how your revolutionary spirit is and i'm not sure if they were actually making clock stalking at the time but i i use them as a deliberate talking point for you today to talk about how american fashion reinspired americans a century later my lady would definitely wear her stockings with her boots and her garters all right so we're going to put on the stockings and then i just have a pair of black boots at least up the front very common very just practical daily use boots these are not necessarily fancy boots these are more of my working boots but they are what i have if you are a very fancy lady which one day i strive to be you'll have boots that have little buttons up the side and they're quite fine and you have to have a whole little tool just to hook the buttons on your shoe it's called button hook one day i will have shoes like that to show you and we'll have to do a whole nother one of these and it'll be great but until then i just lace up my shoes like a like a peasant girl right it's not too interesting i lace up my shoes just like we lace up our shoes today there's nothing incredibly spectacular about that people have been lacing up boots for a while all right now i will put on my corset so sometimes people say boots before corset because corsets do limit your mobility ever so slightly even though i have never had a problem putting on my shoes well in a corset but that does seem to be the the proper way of putting things on so for some administration purposes which will do that so this is a corset this is really a costume corset but it's very similar to the shape of a 17 70 17 80s corset if you remember from our last one or perhaps if you go and watch the the last one that we did right after this one you will see the corset from the 17 uh 1860s it is lower cut it it is a little bit of a different shape it has far more of a indentation here and the cup is lower it comes to about here this one in the 1770s 1780s the cup line rises to cover more of the the actual breast and that is let's say um this one's a very fancy corset sometimes corsets could be quite fancy my other one is extremely plain compared to this one this one's a pink brocade with lace trim and yes corsets did and could get quite fancy they weren't necessarily always just plain utility garments of course it depends on how fine a lady you are how much money you have to make your underwear pretty because no one really is going to see this accept you and whoever you decide to share your underwear with um so that is where we are at least up the back i have a nice pink ribbon that laces it up the back um i think it's all it's always to the top i should make it a little tighter there we go aha found it all right there we go a little more supported now so next we have what gives the era its name almost the bustle era this is a bustle now this is a distinct type of bustle there are many types of muzzle through the out the muscle era in the eight seven uh 1870s you have a natural muscle which literally just means your butt uh it's a very it's a natural form it's one of the first times in a while where we have a more natural silhouette that is not incredibly enhanced with shapewear like this so in the 1870s it's a very flat bustle but you have a lot of fabric that is motioned and carried to the back 1860s we have the big hoop skirt hoops here it goes out of fashion people don't want to just totally get rid of their dresses though so you see a a change where people can literally just drop their hoops they still have a bunch of fabric and then what do you do with that fabric you just kind of take it and tie it up in the back that's kind of what happens and then once you take that fabric and you tie it up in the back in the next decade you start to get bigger and bigger bustles there are sometimes they're more like cage bustles which look very similar to the 1860s big hoop skirt except for that it's concentrated in the back and the front is not as it's not as poofy in the front you want a it's a carry out slightly in the front but you don't want a big hoop you want it to be flatter and have the majority of that poofage in the back you also have bustles that are smaller that just come up around the waist almost and it almost looks it reminds me a lot of the 1700s with the false rumps which we'll have to do another video on that that'll be fun but it's just a cushion basically that goes right over your behind and that gives a little to the fabric and then you have what this i consider this to be a fairly popular design of bustle in the 1880s mid early to mid 1880s and that is called the lobster tail bustle because it looks like a lobster tail doesn't it i'm a lobster now so it's a lobster tail bustle it does again of course you have the lobster tail but then you also have your side panels that help smooth out the skirt and smooth out the lines and then it ties i have in the front i had mine made out of lavender because i just won my favorite colors and they could come in a variety of colors and fabrics no one sees it so it doesn't really matter what color it is it is not going to show through to your outer skirt and you'll see why in just a few moments but this is it's very fun a lot of times people ask me how do you sit in a bustle so let's demonstrate well you can still see the actual vessel so i find my chair right i can feel i can feel the chair on the back of my legs because it's the bustle's still over it so you just kind of back up until you feel the chair at the back of your legs i hit it with my heel and then you just sit it collapse it's collapsible see it's like an accordion this i'm having too much fun with this all right so there you are it's just a nice lobster bustle it is collapsible um it moves with me and it doesn't usually you don't have the the tragedy of it moving too far because you have these two nice side panels that are going to pretty much stick to they're they're they're not like like sticky in a sense but it is going to hold this here is going to help the lobster tail hold its shape and this is just boning um just just normal boning that you could get out of a store and of course then you have a ruffle at the end because you're going to kind of help that transition you don't want it to just cut off right after the last rung so that ruffle there is to help smooth out that transition okay so you like i said you don't have to worry about seeing the bustle and you want to hide all of these these rungs these lumps because you don't want that show to show through to the outside of your dress so what do you do you have a petticoat but not just any petticoat a ruffled petticoat all right let's get that and then here has a nice hook and eye closure that we're going to just lop on right there it's at the side of this art between the front which you can see the front the front is very flat it's very very flat and then we just have the one ruffle at the bottom helps move that pin transition gives a little fullness at the bottom of the skirt and then we got all our apples got all their ruffles in the back that are going to hide the bustle is going to kind of also fill out the sides a little bit so we don't have just as stark of a boom boom situation going on except for that was really popular in the later 1880s when you have the transition from the natural form bustle into basically a shelf that is on the back of your dress uh this is kind of in between where we have uh it's a little more rounded we still have a fairly decent shelf situation going on but it's also a little more rounded this petticoat helps that that silhouette get that rounded shape going on there that's popular here in the more early to mid 1880s but then it also very much shifts by the late 1880s if you're following the high fashion of the day to a literal huge shelf on the back of your bustle on the back of your dress i prefer personally the more soft round silhouette that is not completely a shelf but still has the nice poof edge in the back so the here we are so far you can very much see the silhouette taking shape um move my hair so that you can get a good idea of where where the bustle is doing and all that so here we have just the bed sheet it is a five ruffled bed sheet uh five ruffled petticoat that i made out of bed sheets so it's it's fun they're they're cotton bed sheets i just this is my newest creation that i am sharing with you today of how to get dressed all right so once we have the petticoat on we are then going to go to the underskirt so the underskirt goes over the putty coat but it's going to be seen by people at least the front is you can tell the front is because it has where all the colorful ruffles are the back not so much we are going to save fabric we're not going to put ruffles on the back because it's not going to be seen we're going to save money and just have it be plain so here we are has the we have the waistband for the underskirt um it has a little bit of darts uh sewn into the top that gives it its shape so you don't want to have to gather it a lot especially in the front or you're trying to have everything be rather smooth in the back though it is gathered because the back we're trying to get poof in the back anyway so that's fine so i'm gonna i'm gonna put this one on next all right there we are i think it went down oh i hung up a little bit all right there we go sometimes you just have to jump to get everything right into its place all right so you can see a little bit in the back where you can see like where the ruffles are but they're not going to be shown in just a moment you'll see what happens next okay so you can see it it's taking shape even more we have these lovely ruffles on the bottom of the skirt so we have purple emerald sapphire ruby and a turbulene so it's like more of a dark bluish green and of course my petticoat which we're going to hide don't want the petticoats to show all right so there we are smoothing all those out um i want to make sure that my my ruffles are evenly distributed to each side and that i have this on where it is indeed in the front because we're about to put on another skirt so the next layer that we have coming on today this is the over skirt or sometimes referred to more as the the apron uh here lets me grab my safety pin off of the skirt so here we can see here's here is the front here is the back and it closes out the side very much similar to my petticoat and my underskirt it closes at the side so this is you'll be able to figure out see it a little bit better once i put it on myself but the front is it is pleated i'm going to show you the pleats right up front here it's pleated going up so it's pleated the fabric has been taken and then pleated going up so then it will hang and drape nicely across the front so that smoothness that we liked in the front is going away with these gathered fabric in the top and then we're going to have even more gathered fabric in the back we also have some very nice embroidery on this skirt so here we have some embroidered flowers on the side and also along the front of the skirt so embroidery at this time period lace frills the more the merrier whatever i was as i read this pattern when making this dress it said put decorative things anywhere you want there's no particular one side or one place where you should put them or not put them people loved decoration and this is very much going back to a remembrance of the 1700s the marie antoinette era that mid rococo period where there was lace and frills and the more trim the better on your dress so there's a harkening back to that as well in 1700s fashion as i was saying that was very popular harkening back to that during this time period in the 17 uh hurricane back to the 1780s and mid to late 1700s in the mid to late 1800s all right i'm gonna make sure this all comes down there of course a lady also might have a maid who comes and helps her i always like to make sure that i have alternating closures so the bulk doesn't end up just completely built out onto one side so the closures on the petticoat and the underskirt close on this side and then the closure for the skirt closes on this side as soon as i get it all draped as it's supposed to all right let's step back and see all right there we are so now you can see a little bit better how that draping is going is happening across the front of the dress here i call it almost like an apron skirt because it kind of feels like a very fancy decorative apron but this is this is extremely popular throughout the mid to early 1700s i've got something going on here all right all right there we are i think it's that smoothed it out a little bit all right are we smooth on this side okay we're smoothing up on that side that's pretty good all right so now you can see how it is on the front here the lace does come down and cover some of the ruffles but that's okay you don't want that white petticoat or the white underskirt part of the skirt to show and the color is going to show through the lace anyway so i have the lace at the bottom with the embroidery and then going up to the top here we have the more interesting fabric draped across and then in the back it just goes straight down right let me get this is almost done there we are all right so then in the back i just it's gathered and it just kind of goes down it's a waterfall back and i also have the side pieces right here that connect to the back the back part to the the front gathered part and that part has some embroidery on it as well so there we are so next thing is the bodice that fell off so so here is the bodice has a two peat coast sleeve you can tell there are two peas closely because you have a seam on either side and it's as a coat sleeve not because it's a a jacket necessarily but that's just what they're called i have embroidery on the the cuffs of the sleeve there's embroidery on the back then there's also embroidery on the front which i will show you a little bit more in a little bit once i get it put on so it's very much just like a jacket that fits over the top i do have it boned along this first pleat here that could be boned more but i just chose to just bone it that one piece and then it has hook and eyes that go down the front the most interesting thing is this this is where my natural waistline has ended but this is still this jacket still goes down almost to the end of my torso the end of my torso also has this attached to it so i have to make sure especially when sewing this is that it was not just large enough for me i had to take measurements over the bustle the skirt the underscoop the petticoat the chemise and the panelettes which add a little bit more girth to myself and you have to calculate for that because you want it to be fitted but you also want it to fit all right there we are we'll make sure that lays down nicely that was that nice little overlap thing all right so my chimneys is showing a little bit i need to push that down there we are all right push that down a little bit more again it has a drawstring here so i can undo it and um make it wider or tighter depending on what i need for the dress so it is adjustable all right so this is a little bit more of a fancy dress one might not wear such a neckline out just anywhere this is more of a a fancy dress but still a a more of a day dress than a than a dinner dress or a ball gown actually i feel like this could be worn too to a rather nice dinner oh it's still not wanting to stay down all right there we go um this could be worn to a nicer dinner especially a dinner that is earlier in the evening where you're sure dancing is not going to be happening afterwards as well um or out for for a walk you would perhaps you would also put on like a a tucker a shimmy set a kerchief if you were considered um if you were worried about modesty or sun but that i i would consider this dress to be like a very fancy day dress basically so here here we are the you can see the shape of the bodice now so it has of course the sleeves i always liked standing to the side the best as a profile because i think this is one of the best profiles that we get in a fashion era in the 1860s you look about the same standing this way or this way but this way you get the whole of the vessel i will move my hair i'm about to do my hair and then it'll be up and out of the way but i want you to see how so here is in my natural waistline and then it comes out kind of like with little tails here so that it fits nicely over the bustle and it sits there so you can see that and then it comes down has a little bit you want it to be a little fitted and then it has to come out over the bezel because we also have the side gathers here as well as of course all the other layers that are on down under it and it has the two darts here um it is lined very much similar to just the the petticoat lining and and such but this one is also interesting because it has an interlining as well which means that there is a lining between that has been flat laid which means just sewn two so they're sticking basically the same piece of fabric between the outer fabric and this is a a light grayish wool and then the lining i used a cotton that was also once had a life as a bed sheet so there's the interlining that attaches itself to the fashion fabric and then there's the lining which is sewn to the fabric that you actually see you don't see the interlining anymore it's literally aligning between the outer fabric and the inner fabric which is how they would have made dresses at that time for the embroidery i chose a lots of places to put the embroidery on the jacket as well so of course there is the the embroidery around the neckline there are these the embroidery at the cuffs and also there is embroidery on the back of the dress not to mention as well as the bottom of the skirt and the side of the skirt so to now see that embroidery on the back i'm going to now do my hair in an 1880s hairstyle so i part my hair in the middle they were very much middle part people and then i'm going to do a daytime hairstyle so like i said it was about height let's see so we're going to go high i'm going to start out basically doing a high ponytail all right and then i'm going to braid it just a simple three strand braid okay i have a lot of hair i'll step back so when i braid my hair up i'll be able to see it all right we have now made it to the top of the braid i'm going to get one of my hair ties i'm using a modern rubber hair tie they may have used string and they did have elastic back then but it was not as reliable as our elastic is today so they would not use it for keeping up a skirt or keeping on a blouse or or anything like that it would be used for little things very small things short occurrences all right so now that i have braided up my hair um i am going to basically make myself a little hair crown in a bun so i want it to sit very close to the front of my head right here like the crown of my head i want my my hair to be very much there so you can see its height i'm going to hide the tail of my hair here under and then i'm going to use some hair pins here uh these are just normal hairpins bobby pins uh which are not exactly historically accurate they had bobby pins but they look slightly different than this in the mid victorian era the ones that they had would be more closely related to the giant plastic ones that we have that looks very similar to this but they're a little bit bigger all right and then i'm just going to stick several bobby pins in my hair just going around at the base of the crown so that it holds in place all right we're at two we're doing pretty good this slides a little more lopsided we need this more this way all right we'll stick one more in here for good measure and also to try to even out this bump that has been created there we go actually one more in the back i feel insecure with my hair like that felt like it was going to come down don't want that all right so for the most part there we go and i have all my hair up it's very tall adding to the height we're gonna smooth my my dress back down after after reaching up to my my hair so now you can definitely see the back embroidery of my dress as well as the ones in the front all right so we'll do a slow turn so now you can see the whole look i'm going to back up also a little bit so now now you can actually see the whole look with the bottom ruffled layers and everything so it really this skirt you can see there it is the how close it is to showing that white underskirt part right let's do one more for the bottom of the skirt all right so do we have any questions for me we do oh wonderful kay is wondering about uh with all of those layers is it does it get hot a little bit uh sometimes these are fabrics that breathe pretty well so it can get hot right now i am a perfectly normal temperature i feel very fine in case anyone was wondering um if you do go out and you stand in the sun yes you will get hot but you'll get hot going out and standing in the sun with whatever you're wearing these days so these fabrics they they breathe a little bit more um they also have they're they have a give to them and a poof and air circulation that can come up and go in there you can create your own little breeze just by by kind of swaying back and forth even though this also sometimes considered bad to do that in polite or not good etiquette uh ann is wondering how heavy do you think all of those layers combined are yes so dresses can get really heavy especially when you have a lot of embroidery when you have a lot of beading and that is why these structural layers the foundation layers are so important i have seen girls with modern skirts that are huge skirts and they're not wearing support garments they're not wearing a corset they're not wearing um basically they're not wearing a corset so they put on a giant hoop skirt and it digs into their side because it's such a heavy dress and they don't have anything to support it other than the hoop the hoop needs something to support it the corset not only does it keep our bosom's friends happy and uplifted and secure but it also distributes the weight of the dress the corset is going to distribute the weight of the dress i do not feel i mean i feel a little back heavy but that's just because i'm not used to wearing all of this this uh muscle situation going on so i can feel where it is but it's not digging into me at all i feel very fine uh even though i do have a lot of weight on the back of my dress and it's it's heavy it can get quite heavy especially with all of these layers i don't uh five to ten pounds i feel like this dress is not that heavy it's a very light wool it's a very nice light wool but i do have an inner lining as well as the lining attached to it so it is a little bit more hefty and then the the petticoat the ruffled petticoat is actually quite heavy with all of those ruffled layers and the underskirt here is not that heavy it's a very light satin uh the lace is not that heavy so this dress i might say five seven pounds at most it would be interesting if i i went and weighed it but that's with with everything with the chamise the panelists the corset the bustle the petticoat the under skirt the over skirt and the top all right uh ann is also curious to know what would the average woman wear at home just hanging out at home that's a very good question so this is probably not a just i'm going to go read a book in the library have a normal nice brunch sunday dress this is a i am going to go outside and people are going to see me and i want to look good to dress what you might wear at your own home it still might be more frilly than the sweats and t-shirts that we have today but it's going to be less structured so sometimes a lady lounging around her house she would have what you would call a tea gown and a tea gown it's very similar in the style to this but it does not have as many ruffles and it's not as structured and also it might not have a bustle it would just be a kind of a very elegant bathrobe that would be acceptable to be worn around your house maybe even receive close friends with but you probably won't you don't want to necessarily some ladies might if it's a very fancy tea gown and they feel fine wearing that out in public one might but that is definitely something that a lady is going to wear just relaxing in her home because it's not as structured of a garment kaye is wondering did women usually make their own dresses particularly this style that's a very good question it depends on how much money you have and how much time you have so i've been distressed um but a lady who would have had this dress back in the 1880s would probably not have made it herself she would probably would have had someone make it for her she probably would have had a seamstress to do it especially with the amount of detail that you have with the ruffles and the embroidery that's going to take a really long time to do all of that and to make this and a lady i would say this is a um upper middle class dress they're probably going to have someone make it for them i would i would bet if you are a lower class lady if you are not as well off financially and perhaps you have have the skills you might make something that is this splendid but you're probably going to be working you're going to probably be making your own work dresses dresses that you are going to go outside and actually work in this is not a work dress by any means of the imagination you're not going to wear a giant bustle when you have a work dress if you think back to little house on the prairies that said about the same time period people who are going out and working in the fields are not going to wear a bustle they're going to wear a work dress which might mean they might have a petticoat on because an accorded petticoat and that's for practical practical reasons like keeping warm and making sure your dress is held out a little bit so it doesn't get all bunched up when you're trying to work and walk and move when you're you know on a farm or in a factory versus this which would be highly highly highly impractical to do anything but to go about and be social and be seen and be like look at me i am pretty i have money i'm going to go walk around town i'm going to go visit with my friends i'm going to have a good time and be sociable but i'm not going to do any hard physical labor um so i i would i would say that definitely if your middle class is always a flip of the coin of especially middle middle middle class and lower middle class in this social economic time may have made their own clothes may have bought their clothes we are also at the beginning of the second industrial revolution which is when we start to see off the rack clothes that are pre-made until this time clothes have been tailor-made for you or you have made your own clothes for your own body and your own family we are now starting to see clothes that you can just go and buy off the rack in a department store very very new so only rich people are going to do that still but eventually it will trickle down into the rest of society so i hope that answers your question susan is wondering would the same seamstress who made the dress also a hand embroider or was that a specialty job ah very good question so i think that really depends on the dressmaker and their skills i use machine embroidery to do this which they would not have had at that time but they did enjoy the floral designs very similar to the ones i chose here i'm going to get a little closer so you can see a little better what we have going on here so that might be a seamstress you might also have the skills to embroider you might also have a specialty job so that very much depends upon the skills that that that company has what comes after the bustle era when does the bustle era end and what comes next yes so the buzzle era does not last for that long so like i said in the 1870s you have the natural bustle in the 1880s we have a lobster bustle then we have like that shelf bustle which the lobster bustle is not a shelf bustle the lobster vessel is a more gradual shift downwards uh versus just having a shelf sitting there uh so that only literally lasts for the 1880s it only lasts for about a decade is these bustles and contraptions and it's a variety of bustles as well it's not just the lobster bustle or just this one it's a lot of change and a lot of different styles that we see just in the 1880s themselves and then we go to the 1890s it is gilded age second industrial revolution is in full swing we have people who are making millions who hadn't really had that kind of money before you have a lot of wealth you have the vanderbilts and you have the gilded age and of course the fashion is going to reflect that wealth for the wealthy the bustles disappear and we go back to just having a nice full skirt but you don't have any skirt supports from from this time forward we really this is the last great hurrah of a skirt supporter and then we really go back to uh just kind of having maybe a petty coat but it's not that much emphasis on skirt we are actually in the 1890s we're going to have the emphasis on the sleeves if you thought the 80s the 1980s had big sleeves try the 1890s huge leg of mutton sleeves they're the ones who started it well actually the 1830s started it but that's going back a little bit no farther in the 1890s they these huge huge sleeve princess diana would have fit right in with her wedding dress as those the sleeves were were that big so we see the sleeves this the skirt kind of is not the emphasis at this point is the huge sleeves which become the emphasis of the the fashion silhouette um and then we move into to the edwardian susan's also wondering when did the hobble skirt or hobble dress go into fashion and how long was that a trend yeah so the hobble skirt is a skirt that is very narrow at the bottom so it's kind of like hobbles you like you don't kind of have to like do this to walk around in it um because it's um very very restricting that was really popular in the 19 teens so after the edwardian era going into 19 teens when things were a little uncertain you had the whole world war going on that picked up steam there especially when you have a war you have rationing on fabric and you're you know conserving fabric to go to the war effort hubble skirts kind of have this moment in the sun where they're this interesting fashion trend that happens they don't stick around for that that long but they do have a little little time in the early 19 teens what is your next project oh my next project i was actually just thinking about that last night because i just finished this one just a couple weeks ago i haven't started on my next big sewing project yet um i'm i'm thinking about um doing not except not well it's still historically inspired but more of a cosplay direction with making the live-action cinderella wedding dress which if you look at it has a lot of 1890s influences this skirt straight out of the 1890s it has a very uh like i was saying it has a very flat front on the the skirt for her cinderella's wedding dress in the live-action version and it has a very full back and train which honestly very much reminds me of an 1890s ball gown and then this the top it does not have the giant sleeves like the 1890s but it does have a very corseted top it looks a lot like a ball gown bodice in the 1890s except it doesn't have the big sleeves it just has narrow sleeves all right i think that's all of our questions for today wonderful well thank you all so much for joining me and i had so much fun getting this dress on with all of you it is it's just so fun i even jumping in it's also fun just because of the bustle and how it bounces um it's a very fun time period and i i enjoy this and i hope you enjoyed it thank you so much i hope you learned a little bit more about late victorian 1887 until next time stay safe and take care

Channel: Northeast Georgia History Center

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Length: 49min 46sec (2986 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 29 2022