How many pettiocoats in the 18th century?

[frualeydis]

If I'm going to finally make something from the 18th century during the NaCoFiMo I need to find out how many petticoats I need. I have a shift, a pair of stays and pocket hoops. However, I think I'm going to settle for something like this (the style, not the fabric, but I couldn't find a photo of the dress I want to use as inspiration) and then I should use a pad instead I think.
But the question is, how many petticoats? The visible one of course, but aside from that?

Comments

[mirazandar.livejournal.com]

i'm no expert on the subject, but i think it depends alot on the kind of petticoat. If it's quilted, it's more likely to conceal the shape of the hoops.

I found that one thick petticoat in addition to the visible one and the overskirt connected to the bodice was enough to work out for me, but if it's period or not, i have no clue.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

But I don't think I will wear a hoop, since I plan to make something from the 1770s or 80s.

/Eva

[green-martha.livejournal.com]

for this I only had one (cartridge-pleated) petticoat. But then, I haven't researched the matter at all, just did what looked okay in my eyes.

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

That is an absolutely gorgeous outfit!

/Eva

[sneprinsesse.livejournal.com]

NaCoFiMo sounds fun (I have only heard of NaNoWriMo before), and now I have learned I suffer from CADD :) Perhaps I will join and make a corset or something. I need a new Victorian corset.

it says on http://www.marquise.de/en/1700/howto/frauen/18anziehen.shtml that you need first a decency skirt, then as many petticoats that are necessary to keep the hoops from being visible. But you are not going to use hoops, so I don't know and shouldn't really be answering this.

I agree with mirazandar that it depends on the kind of petticoat(fabric), and how it supports the dress.

[ginger-dragon.livejournal.com]

Layers of petticoat depended on the weather too. But one at the very least- preferably two. I don't make petticoats just for being petticoats- I use my visible ones for other ensembles.

I have to join NaCoFiMo too! What fun!

[aleeta.livejournal.com]

With pocket hoops for the dress in my icon I am wearing a quilted petticoat, one plain petticoat and then the visible one (Jupe). In this case the quilted petticoat is only a half, it only just covered my pocket hoops since this event was in August and I figured it would be cooler if it wasn't the whole length of the dress.

I know that quilted petti's are period, but one ones that I have typically seen are worn as the outter layer, I am not sure if they were worn to cover the hoop ridges, as I used it for, though JP Ryan suggests that they did in her documentation for the Pent en la'are (sp?) pattern.

Not serious

[camele0pard.livejournal.com]

Okay, this is just for fun and not in any way an answer to your question, but I got so nostalgic watching the pictures of green_martha. Even though I never made a dress for myself, just borrowed.

This is ten years ago, when we did "The wedding of Figaro":
http://home.swipnet.se/skavel/fotosida/foto/figaro.jpg

But I still can't even think about the 18th century without getting a pain in my neck from those heavy wigs...

(I hadn't heard of NaCoFiMo either. I'm just now failing miserably at NaNoWriMo)

Re: Not serious

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

You look lovely. But did you do an opera?

/Eva

Re: Not serious

[camele0pard.livejournal.com]

No, we just did the play (that the opera was based on). He played the Count and I played the Countess... "and that's how mommy and daddy met".

Re: Not serious

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

Aaww! Cute!
He's awfully handsome in that picture. You're very pretty too, but you're always pretty.

/Eva

[clothsprogs.livejournal.com]

Nineteen petticoats, all stiffened with horsehair braid and loaded with ruffles!..... or perhap not.

I reckon one additional to the visible one should do it, if you need an additional one at all for that look.

Teddy

[bippimalin.livejournal.com]

The NaCoFiMo is a very cool idea. Too bad I'm moving during december.
It is continuous right? I really should enter it with my gowns that has been dragging along over the years.