The blouse is finished

[frualeydis]

The blouse is now finished and looks really nice if you ask me. I made the button holes before I went to Anna to sew and planned to sew the buttons there. Unfortunately the buttons were not in the bag I thought they were so instead I ended up boning the front piece of my new 16th century corset. I boned most of it before Maja and I had to go home. Then we put her to bed and I sewed the rest of the buttons. I will wear it tomorrow to work although I see a little problem with that. My skirts are a little loose in the waist and tend to move down and since the blouse is rather short, intended to be worn with a skirt that stays at waist level, it might ride up and out of the skirt. But I don't know until I've tried it.

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[myralea.livejournal.com]

still impressed...

well, anyway. found a painting with the most marvellous pink mid-1860s dress. and i immedeatly thought of you. was a portrait of the countess Hallwyl. it almost made me change my mind about that bustle dress... i can email a image if you would like? or if you have the museums catalogue "sköna juveler" from 2000, its there on p 129! along with a photos of her jewellery.

/m- who studied corset constructions last might to try to figure out what kind of construction my body would need. (but there too little of me to mould into form. i'll just look the same whatever period corset i wear...)
but maybe something like this?

http://haabet.dk/patent/141134/index.html
or
http://haabet.dk/patent/116585/index.html

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Aargh! What a wonderful book! I suppose that it's out of print since long.

Eva