Found them! http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=116982&coll_keywords=sleeve+puff&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=1
Hanna At 21:25 22.03.2009, you wrote:
The sleeve puffs from the MFA in Boston (can't find a pic on-line), which I last saw in person about 15 years ago, were made of white, fine china silk and stuffed with down, they weighed almost nothing. There were no obvious attachment ties or the like. They were basically shaped like a dress sleeve with and outer sleeve and more fitted inner sleeve. When I made mine I made a sleeve pattern slightly smaller than my dress' sleeve and made up a fitted inner sleeve. I plan to make ties to attach them, but for now I pin them in place. Saundra Altman of Past Patterns has pattern in her archives that has yet to be published, you might ask her. Does the Workwoman's guide have sleeve puffs? Katy On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Cin <cinbar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ladies & a few gents, > I'm trying to find a better picture of a single garment with cotton > sleeve puffs filled with down. There's a tiny picture in Payne > showing a gal in all a mix of c1825-33 unmentionables. She's wearing > a short sleeved something with down-filled crescents to make those > late 1820s-early 1830s sleeves take form. > My question concerns the nature of the puffs. Does anyone have a > better picture, museum description or similar garment? > The garment was, when this photo was take, at the Gallery of English > Costume, Manchester. The collection URL is > http://www.manchestergalleries.org/the-collections/search-the-collection/ > but doesnt fully describe the puffs. I'm particularly seeking > construction & attachment details. > > The book, Blanche Payne's, History of Costume, 1st ed. p. 492. > Thanks all, > --cin > Cynthia Barnes > cinbar...@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > -- Katy Bishop, Vintage Victorian katybisho...@gmail.com www.VintageVictorian.com Custom reproduction gowns of the Victorian Era. Publisher of the Vintage Dress Series books. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
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