1916 Dress Project....(Reaserch posted)

Oh that is wonderful! What a great project!

 

This looks very interesting. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with this time ^^

 

Very nice, hope to be able to look at an outfit and just create it like you one day.

 

They look stunning, cant wait to see the finished article

 

I'm excited to see the beginning of this project! Especially if you get around to making that long corset. I love those so much! And I'm so jealous of your magazine collection.

 

I wonder how they sat in that corset? Or maybe it wasn't boned all the way down.

 

Oh my goodness! I can't wait to see!
I'm so excited I'm practically shaking! lol

 

I think they just show the slip, because it would porn if they showed the ladies bare legs back then.

 

The chemise goes UNDER the corset, and a corset-cover goes OVER the corset, tucked into a separate petticoat

http://sewcreativelyyou.com/catalog.php?item=558&catid=46&ret=catalog.php%3Fcategory=46

The "camisole" in this pattern is actually a corset cover.

As for sitting, the boning stops just below the waist at the front and back (see where the corset changes color in those two places in the front?) and only goes the length of the corset down the sides, holding in those hips. Sitting is very stiff, and the corset itself caused the S-shape back position referred to as the "debutante sway" You either reclined on one of those chaise-lounge things with one high arm, or you sat bolt upright and rigid.

In researching my Elemental Masters series I have learned volumes about Edwardian clothing!

 

Edwardian Corset

Has a rounded front with a split, hook-and-eye busk or one-piece steel busk to separate the bust as well as push it up and forward. Lacing is in the back. There are usually no straps. The boning is usually positioned in channels along the seam lines, about one bone every inch to three inches. The waist is cinched in very small and the corset extends to cover the stomach and hips to compress and push the hips back and out. Corset may be boned like Victorian corsets, or may include some elastic panels like future corsets.

Very useful site:

http://www.costumebeginner.com/corsets/contents.htm

 

There are lots of pictures from the period with women perched against a window sill, say, rather than properly sitting.

I'm thinking especially of Irene Castle, in the Castle's dance manual, which can be found at the Library of Congress website, along with a lot of dance manuals not useful for dressing the mid-1910s.
Irene Castle was a trend-setter, and tried very hard to live up to that image. So she's probably not in some 'middle of the road' cut and style of corsets from Sears, but a more extreme cut.

Ann in CT

 

Oh THIS will help! A patent for a 1916 corset with drawings!

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=N

Here are more goodies



http://www.fashion-era.com/C20th_costume_history/1916_silhouettes_1.htm
http://www.costumegallery.com/1916/Christy/
http://www.tias.com/cgi-bin/showcase-item.cgi?itemKey=3923206399&store=/stores/vpjh
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archiv...D1439E233A2575AC0A9629C946796D6CF&oref=slogin

 

Your project is amazing, I'm also in love with historical costumes & corsets. Good luck, I'll be checking this thread often

 

I love this period so it will be a fascinating project to follow.

Annefia!

 

edit: so as soon as I had hit post on this message I head a scream from upstairs...it was naptime. I found that she had climbed out of the crib and was now completly naked and running around her room....sigh.....

They do tend to do that, don't they?

I love this idea! How fun to do the whole set from skin out, especially from this time period (one of my favorite, clothing wise). I'm looking forward to seeing the results of all this research and effort!

 

Very cool, i also have an interests with fashion from the past, as its coming back into fashion now anyways ^^

Em xo

 

You are just having too much fun with this. I love seeing how you costume your dolls.
Susan

 

Can't wait to see how this'll turn out. >w<

 

Hi Eliz-Rivenstar!

Very interesting project you work on... I'm impatient to see the results!

I suspect there's something especially tricky in making corsets reproductions that are supposed to look like the real thing, while being worn by resin dolls... 'cause real corsets are rigid things intended for modifying the body's shape, while doll's corsets need to adapt to the shape of the rigid resin body they are put on! So perhaps it could be easier, for obtaining a tightly fitting shape, to simply simulate the boning and use elastic materials instead of the materials that were used for making real period corsets... a dificult choice to make between authenticity and visual gratification! what are your thoughts about this?

 

Thanks Eliz!

Best luck for your hunt for the perfect Victorian corset model!

 

that edwardian corset woulnd't have been boned all the way down. period sources are boned to about hip level and then sometimes elastic panels included.
One i've worn that i had borrowed from someone for an event was all purely elasticated, it was old but i don't think it was period, possible later.

 

I can't wait to see pictures!