1850s

[frualeydis]

Thanks to pinkdiamond I found this illustration, which looks like it's from the end of the 1850s. And now I'm wondering if one can use silk, or more correctly silk imitation, for a jacket like those on the picture. I have this lovely blue rayon fabric that is so flattering on me, exactly the right colour, it's just that it isn't enough for a whole dress. Making a jacket and a skirt in a different colour would solve that. Generally we think of jackets as something more substantial, made from wool, but i don't think it looks like that in the picture. It could well be summer jackets, or bodices made to look like jackets. What do you think?

Comments

[merastra.livejournal.com]

Yep, looks satiny to me too. Go for it! :-)

[mirazandar.livejournal.com]

god, that is a terrible costume period. All fluffy and flunced.... will be exiting to see what you make out of it :D

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

That's what I like. Inside this 36 year old overweight woman lives a 20-something girl who likes girly things, bows and flounces.

Eva

[galiana-db.livejournal.com]

I agree that it looks like a bodice in the form of a jacket. That blue and white one on the end is very pretty. Go for it!

[pinque.livejournal.com]

OK, brain fart alert, but i've no idea how you got to that from me;)

Maybe I should rename the whole site Frazzled...

Anyway, I think you could easily get away with a light fabric for the jacket/bodice that looks like a jacket. There is a loverly pale low necked jacket I saved from possibly an ebay auction or the corsets and crinolines site.

The one I'm thinking of is a watered silk.. oh, and I just remembereda very light pale blue one over a dress that I think was a different colour...

http://www.corsetsandcrinolines.com/timeline.php?dt=1850
I love this one, and will probably do somehting similar in a light silk to wear over the Voile.

Hmm the other may have been from Whitaker AUctions.. it's a three piece outfit. Or possibly a link via Kendra's site...
Ahah! I hope... no..
http://demode.tweedlebop.com/realvict/1800s2.html

I can't find it just yet, but the bodice and jacket are pale blue-green, and the skirt has a base of the same with two deep qhite flounces which a couple of blue-green bows.
The whole ensemble is very light and probably summer.

I thought it might have been a wedding dress.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

The illustration came form a link on a page you had linked to, so you're not that "frazzled".
I'm thinking about having a blue "jacket" and a wine red skirt, maybe without flounces, since the material is a little heavy.


Eva