I could probably put on my 18thC stays, and the earlier ones I've made, and
put photos up on the website, it may take a little bit of time, as I have
been feeling trashed of late and so the website is slow to update with my
stuff...Pierre can only mind read so well.
Long and short, let me see what I can do.
Kelly
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cynthia Virtue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2005 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Bosoms was: Have you seen this painting?
kelly grant wrote:
am not really wanting the "melons on a platter" as some >said earlier.
I think of the melons on a platter in the 18th Century, not Elizabethan,
as the corsets are shaped differently. The Renn and Elizabethan are more
tubular in shape to the 18thC cone shape that gives you a higher
bustline. That and the 18thC women showed them off a bit more than
earlier women, what with the partlets of the earliers times.
I'm not the person to do it, but someone may have the time, someday, to do
a photo essay about corseted bosom shapes through time, starting with
Tudor and going up through some of the less, er, skilled tailoring of
newer-to-historic-costuming folks where the bosom seems to be supported as
if horizontal acreage was key.
It would probably help a lot of newer folks to know what they were aiming
for.
cv
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