Hello everyone, I'm trying to pin down some plans for some taffeta I bought a while ago. When I bought it I had a picture in my mind of what I thought of as a 'typical' 1840s dress with a very plain dart-fitted bodice (perhaps with a pointed waist) and tight sleeves. But now that I'm actually looking at images and extant garments that look like what I'm thinking of. What I've seen is either a shirred/fan front bodice with plain fitted sleeves or a darted bodice with rather more complicated sleeves (e.g. the puff below the elbow or some variation on a trumpet/funnel shaped sleeve)
So essentially what I'm asking from the collected 19th century wisdom on this list, is my idea a rarity or non existent or perhaps it belongs to another era. Elizabeth -- ------------------------------------------ Elizabeth Walpole http://magpiecostumer.wordpress.com/ http://magpiecostumer.110mb.com/ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
