The Fashionable Past--Antiques: An Index!

An Index!

1790s

A 1790s Brocade Bodice

1880s

An 1880s Evening Bodice

An 1880s Cotton Print Dress

1920s

The Larcher-Smith Entertainers, a 1924 advertisement

Yarn Samples from Peace Dale Yarns

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Importance of originals

Not long after I started sewing, I realized that in order to really understand period construction I would have to study extant garments. Books gave me a start, but it wasn’t until I had collected a few bodices that I felt I had a good grasp of period techniques.

While pictures and words can’t give all the information that examining a bodice in person can, they can certainly help—especially when it comes to those nagging questions about what they would have done. With that in mind, when I study the bodices in my own collection I try to concentrate on the areas of construction that will be most useful in making recreations.