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mandie_rwSo, being the completely unpredictable costumer I am, I decided to work on neither my Regency picnic outfit, nor any 1830 foundations. Sneaky!
I've been having a vague need for some new 18thc-something lately, and I was thinking of throwing together a new middling-class gown. After our recent training at the Indian King tavern, though, I thought it might be nice to have a talking point about the women in colonial America who did travel and who might have come to a site like this...they're very into the "man's world!" narrative of the 18thc there. Which is totally true! As far as it goes. "Women never came unchaperoned into taverns and they didn't travel" is a stupid thing to say, though, and I have Sarah Kemble Knight as proof! (She wrote an account of her journey from Boston to New York and back in 1704, which she took on behalf of a relative's inheritance, hired her own guides, and generally took no bullshit.)
Anyway the point of all that was that I can wear my Brunswick as an example of traveling-wear for a lady, which would be a great thing to wear in the dining-room. (Even though this would be the least practical 18thc traveling costume ever, being made of thin printed cotton! Uh, maybe summer travel? All that dust! Probably not. Shhhh. There's a riding habit somewhere in my distant future.) Hooray talking points!
I really just want to get it wearable for now, which is not completely unreasonable; the petticoat and waistcoat are done (well, "done"), and I stitched down all the random pinned-down bits today, and marked the hem, which I might possibly get sewn tonight. Then all I'll really have to do are the sleeves. There's plenty of trim planned on this, but most if not all of that can wait (except for the elbow cuff that hides the sleeve join), and since I have a Regency shirt, that will do for now to wear underneath.
I've been having a vague need for some new 18thc-something lately, and I was thinking of throwing together a new middling-class gown. After our recent training at the Indian King tavern, though, I thought it might be nice to have a talking point about the women in colonial America who did travel and who might have come to a site like this...they're very into the "man's world!" narrative of the 18thc there. Which is totally true! As far as it goes. "Women never came unchaperoned into taverns and they didn't travel" is a stupid thing to say, though, and I have Sarah Kemble Knight as proof! (She wrote an account of her journey from Boston to New York and back in 1704, which she took on behalf of a relative's inheritance, hired her own guides, and generally took no bullshit.)
Anyway the point of all that was that I can wear my Brunswick as an example of traveling-wear for a lady, which would be a great thing to wear in the dining-room. (Even though this would be the least practical 18thc traveling costume ever, being made of thin printed cotton! Uh, maybe summer travel? All that dust! Probably not. Shhhh. There's a riding habit somewhere in my distant future.) Hooray talking points!
I really just want to get it wearable for now, which is not completely unreasonable; the petticoat and waistcoat are done (well, "done"), and I stitched down all the random pinned-down bits today, and marked the hem, which I might possibly get sewn tonight. Then all I'll really have to do are the sleeves. There's plenty of trim planned on this, but most if not all of that can wait (except for the elbow cuff that hides the sleeve join), and since I have a Regency shirt, that will do for now to wear underneath.
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