How Would 1910s Dresses Fasten? Three Examples of Closures and Fitted Linings
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2022
- This video shows three period examples of dresses spanning 1912-1921. In this video I show three different examples of closures, that feature the most common ways dresses would close.
Exceptions to this would be "lingerie" or "lawn" dresses, that were made of a single layer of cotton and fastened up the back, and "house" or "wash" or "apron" dresses, that would fasten up the front.
When making your own version, fit the inner lining FIRST, and finish center front closures. On top of this, build your dress.
Plan your dress layers from the INSIDE, to the OUTSIDE. Number the layers on a scrap of paper to keep with your pattern to help you plan what needs to fasten and where. Usually the outside was finished with some sort of sash or belt.
Free books on Archive.org or Google Books can help with construction. I particularly like the Lippincott Home Manuals dressmaking book, and American Dressmaking Step by Step.
This video is meant to be supplemental material to Wearing History Sewing Patterns. I offer restored and adapted versions of period originals, plus many other types of patterns. Use this in conjunction with period resources, as mentioned above, and with your period instructions (which are often text only).
Sewing Patterns available at wearinghistory.etsy.com and wearinghistorypatterns.com
More period information available for free at wearinghistoryblog.com
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I love just how convoluted these became. Layers and layers of sneaky closures. One would have thought that shorter clothes with fewer foundations would have instantly made for simpler closers -- No! Surprise, it still takes you half and hour and help from a maid to get dressed. Please do show us these dresses in more detail. FABULOUS VIDEO!
Oh yes please... more on dresses.
I would love to see those dresses in more detail!
Wow, I had no idea that snaps had been around for so long. Great video.
I’ve been looking for a resource like this FOREVER!! I can’t wait for the pattern to come out!
I’d enthusiastically welcome as deep a dive into each of these beautiful garments as you’re willing to go.
Thank you so much for creating this video. It's very important subject matter should be made common knowledge.
I just love the 1910s with all their super different varieties. Is there any chance you could put those dresses on a mannequin or a dress form? I'd love to see them in fuller versions. :) Also, as to closures in that period, I can't remember where I heard it, but someone said, you were meant to look as if you didn't put a dress on, but you magically materialised inside the dress, very funny, but accurate way to describe their hidden closure systems. :D
Oooh, yes I would love more videos about these dresses!
The dress on the right is very similar to my great grandmother's wedding dress, from 1912. All that was left when I was little was the bodice and omg, the hooks, the eyes, the snaps were so complicated but when it was all done up it looked great. Well as great as a terminally fragile mix of Persian silk, French lace and tiny faux crystals made for a woman wearing an industrial strength corset could look on a skinny 11 year old!
Always more videos on dissecting these and other antique garments. It is so helpful and inspiring to see how they were done! Thank you
Oh my goodness! This is FASCINATING!!!
Thank you so much for taking the time to share all this.
Amazing video, can make video about 1912 cerulean blue dress. The dress is so beautiful!!!
Fascinating!
new bought snaps nowadays rust away in a couple of washes in the washing machine......the snaps on my shoes were worn before my shoe was....the quality of the metal certainly went down as well...
*stares at closures*
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... But why?
I ask myself that about a LOT of vintage and antique clothes. Lol.
Because they could! I guess it's because dressmakers were still working out how to make the clothes work, with the same skill set they had from only a few years ago. The structure that was in the corset was not there anymore so they had to come up with some sort of transitional way. After all it wasn't a given that clothes would inevitably get simpler. There was, for a time, a real possibility that the whole corset thing could have made a comeback. There's a few times when it 'could' have happened