1805-1810 Corset:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
We are currently researching an outfit for an exhibition at the Daily Mail History Festival at Chalk Valley – it’s to be for the year 1805 and we are dressing one of the ladies.
On thursday we’re off upto Bath Fashion Museum to begin looking closely at dresses but this is the smalls beginnings (lol!). We’ve started sampling a shift – see image – from the Museum of Fine Art, Boston. And now onto the next layer. We’re sampling two different types of underwear for this. Mainly to see how they both manipulate the body and the difference they create. One is a pair of jumps from the Hereford Collections Centre and the other from the MMA and just studying the images supplied online. The pair of jumps we’ve actually handled and looking closely at but the MMA corset we’re having to do from afar…oh way over the ocean!
We’re tackling this in the same way we tackle all of our outfits – start researching the correct underwear and it’s pretty much guaranteed the other layers will make a lot more sense!
Please take a look at the following images….
This first set are the Originals:
1805-1810 Corset – MMA
Back View of this Regency Corset
What we’re calling ‘The Under-Wire Section’!
And the Shift we’re sampling…
It’s a Happy Chemise! Dated 1800s – MFA Boston
And now for some of the photo’s of our samples…remember these are not yet quite finished…
The Unfinished Front View
The Unfinished Back View
The Unfinished CF section – it still needs boning and eyelets…
Back View – close up
Oh and don’t have any photos yet of the Chemise – these will follow…. 🙂
