The new 18th century stays are finished

[frualeydis]

And I must say they look mighty good in my opinion.





In the back picture you can really see how broad my back is. Although I have plenty of fat on my body, most of it the form of boobs and tummy, there is very little of it on my back. So what you see is mostly my huge ribcage (83 cm just under the bust, 96 cm were it ends).

I must say I love this corset. Although I made it primarily for a wedding, where it will be worn with a skirt and a pair of tie-in sleeves, I'm getting very motivated to either finish my robe à la francaise that I started on before Maja was born or make a new dress. I am thinking about something along the line of the dress on page 104 in Fashion. I have a black (too soft) silk with a very 18th century style printed pattern with flowers and birds in (mainly) green, salmon and cream that I would use for the dress, a green silk for the petticoat and white self patterned sheer linen for the apron. The linen will need some starch though.

Anyway, first I'm going to make a c. 1300 cotte in blue silk for the disputation party and then my striped regency dress.
I don't really have to make any new pre-1600 garb, so I can indulge myself in other periods.
Then, by spring, it is time to start on new medieval/renaissance clothes for the children.

Comments

[flummoxicated.livejournal.com]

That's really lovely!

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

It looks really good on you, such nice clevage, I'm sure your sweetie likes it. :D
I love the color contrast between the pink fabric and the green ribbon

[koshka-the-cat.livejournal.com]

You're right! They look excellent. Lovely colors. I can't wait to see what goes over them :)

[love3angle.livejournal.com]

That color ROCKS!!! Nicely done. :-)

[silverstah.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's smokin' hot! :) I love the pink and green - such a happy color combination!

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Hmm, yes he does.


Eva

[amonik.livejournal.com]

Amazing. Look at that waist! Will the skirt be the same fabric?

[myralea.livejournal.com]

it looks great!
i tried my, now 10 year old, 18thC corset on earlier this week. lucky me it still fits neatly! so in october i'm probably going to draft my first 18thC bodice.

so, you are going to wear 13thC for the disputation party then ;)

/m

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

That's a gorgeous corset, just superb. I SO hope I can get a job quickly, so I can start affording to costume again. Although I really want to get my folkdräkt started as well, AND the Norwegian bunad I can wear because of my gammal farfar. So many centuries of nice dresses, so little time.

[ginger-dragon.livejournal.com]

It looks great! And I promise- if you start something 18th century, I'll make something Medieval. :-D

[de-ravenne.livejournal.com]

The stays look really nice and I love the colour!

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

Lovely!

Teddy

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

I linked to you through Idahoe Swede. I live on Saaremaa and am an English teacher and local tourism guide. The middle ages is a passion of mine and I find your costumes both brilliant and fascinating. I hope you will be willing to friend me

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I will.

/Eva

[bippimalin.livejournal.com]

Asnajs as we say where I come from. :)

[joyeuse60.livejournal.com]

The stays look marvellous.. you have done a great job... so we will see new gown to go over those stays soon??? grin.... 13th c for your disputation party sounds like a wonderful idea... that is a time frame that looks really good on you...have fun

[roja.livejournal.com]

Wow! Gorgeous! The front is really perfect!
How many hours did it take you to finish it?

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

It's hard to calculate since all the hand sewing is done in front of the telly :)
But really not much because the boning channels are sewn on machine and I make eyelets fairly quickly. Maybe 20 hours?

/Eva

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I will.. promise, and then I'll come to one of your events.

Eva

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

I forgot to ask which folk costume you were going to make. The materials for those are expensive, but they're genrally not hard to sew. The fitting of the bodice provides the most challenge, but for an experienced hisotrical costumer there shouldn't be any problems.

Eva

[idahoswede.livejournal.com]

My mormor was born in Källeryd, Västergötland, BUT the dräkt she brought with her to the U.S. looks very much like the one from Toarp, if you have the book by Berg and Berg on Folkdräkt. I have the skirt and bodice left from the original of mormor's outfit, the rest was lost. My friend in Stockholm who is a professional costumer and also interested in folkdräkt is of the opinion that it's probably one of the oldest versions from that area, probably 1880s and perhaps originally owned by gammal mormor. I keep meaning to take it to Nordiska Museet and have someone there look at it.

[ashariel.livejournal.com]

That's beautiful!

Nifty!

[twe.livejournal.com]

That looks really nice, and I particularly like the green ribbon with the pink.

[billy-oblivionx.livejournal.com]

You look gorgeous Eva.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I feel gorgeous in it.

/Eva

[dame-eleanor.livejournal.com]

That looks absolutely smashing, Eva! And a wonderful look on you. Can't wait to see the Robe a la Francaise! Love that style, and wish I had the where withal to add yet one more era of study and cotume love. But, I shall enjoy sitting off to the side and watching you do it!! :) Beautiful work!!

[seekatesew.livejournal.com]

Those are gorgeous! Beautiful shape and fabulous color. :)

Do you have a pocket or some sort of attachment for the separate stomacher, or is it solely held in place by the corset laces?

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

It's just held in place by the lacing.

/Eva

[seekatesew.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info! Very inspiring.