19th Century Dressmakers and How They Worked || One Woman is Twice Two Soldiers, Episode 7
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- Want to learn about a common female profession in the 19th century? Come learn about 19th century dressmakers-who they were, how they worked, and how they were thought of.
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Now, don't forget that women who were employed as domestic house servants were required to provide their own uniforms. During the day, they could wear a cotton uniform of a modest color blue or gray was recommended. After 5, a domestic class had to change into a black uniform with starched white apron and cap. She had to have sleeve guards, in case she was asked to work in the kitchen during a dinner party.
Most domestics actually lived
on the premises and had one day off a week.
So before you could actually start working, you had to go to a dressmaker and have your uniforms made.
Yes, servants did provide all their own clothing, which meant they had to have appropriate clothing before even getting paid.
This was true but only for domestic servants who worked in relatively affluent households. Most servants worked in very ordinary households. I recall a statistic that 1/4 of households in New York employed a servant. (Hired girls & housekeepers on American farms didn't have a dress code. They wore what they had .)
@@ProfoundConfusion I also find servants having 'uniforms' varies by time frame as well. You don't see it much mentioned in the early 19th century, by the mid 19th century you're more likely to see recommendations for 'sensible' colors for servants' clothing (brown, black, gray, etc.), and you see more mentions of a general uniform by the late 19th century. That's why it's so hard to speak about a whole era or century-things change a lot within that time frame!
The description of the sewing profession has not changed. You are never paid what you are worth, expectations are high, and people think it's easy (so why don't they do it themselves?).
As a professional seamstress, I know a lot of collogues who do still have the same issues.
And there are still wild fluctuations between periods of overwork and practically none
@@sashag572 Yes there is! I had nothing all summer and then 4 large orders all at once. (Part of that is dealing with state budgeting but for different sites. The state distributes money all at the same time, even if the clients approached me at different times through a 6 month period).
I’m lying in bed watching this on my phone with my dog on one side and my cat on the other. My cat was very intrigued by your cat about 10 minutes in, and I had to pause to let you know that you needn’t apologize for animal noises as far as I’m concerned. They rightly deserve any and all pets.
Most of my talking videos begin with me petting my dog just off camera. If you ever see my hands moving just below frame, it's because there's a dog there demanding pets. And yes, the cat likes to input is own opinions into whatever I'm talking about in each video. He's a chatty one.
so sorry to hear that you are hurt by allergy and uncomfortable. It has happened to me with ragwort. Very interesting information on dressmaking.
It cleared up in a few weeks and no more problems since. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!
I bet I know where that dressmaker went wrong! She forgot she hadn’t included seam allowance in the pattern!
I would blame the customer who neglected to follow #1 rule: ALWAYS double check if the pattern includes seam allowances. It was not until turn of the century for it to be standard to include seam allowances in patterns. Sewing patterns before 1900 did not usually include seam allowances. The home sewer needed to add them.
@pyewhackett1598 the dress was patterned and made up by the dressmaker, so the customer was not at fault in this situation. Now it could have been the dressmaker who patterned the dress handed it off to a lower dressmaker who worked for her and that person neglected to add seam allowances, but the customer had no part in that.
It's either that or she mixed up Lydia's pattern with another smaller customer's but I'm guessing it is the seam allowance issue. It's foreign to me why Lydia could not go to the dressmaker and have her fix it or at least get her money back since it was a dressmaker issue and not a customer problem.
Thanks for another interesting video, I felt sorry for the young lady who had worked hard for her silk dress and then it was useless for her, ❤
I did, as well! The moral of the story was about the evils of vanity and want of "useless" things, but it still seams so unfair.
Cat meows 😻 😂🧡🧡
Oh he loves to come up and make his presence known!
I love this. Very informative and fun.
Thank you! I very much enjoyed researching for this one.
You look beautiful, despite the alergic reaction. Heal fast Katelyn and make more great video's.
Thank you very much! Reaction is gone by now and everything is back to normal.
That looks like poison ivy or sumac. Try steeping chamomile tea and soaking a wash cloth in it and applying to the area once the tea is cooled.Oh and typically it's really good to wash with Dawn dish soap after doing anything with plants you're not sure about. This cuts the oils and you're less likely to develope a rash :) You can also use it on your clothes for the same reasons.
I'm not sure what it was. I know it was not poison ivy because I don't react to poison ivy at all (we have it all over the property. I can roll in it and not have a reaction and my husband can just walk outside and get covered in a rash). We have sumac everywhere as well and I've never reacted before but I've also never purposely touched it so it could be that. But it flared up just a day after I was picking grapes so it had to be something around the vines. I'm usually very aware of all the plants I touch and nothing around the vines concerned me but there may have been something hiding.
1:53 oh I'm so sorry see you're having an allergic reaction! I have had intolerances/non-anaphylactic allergies were quite a while. I am already gluten and dairy free and because I was a nurse in the 90s I have developed a latex allergy turn into cross allergy I had my first anaphylactic response to cashew few weeks ago.
I wish my immune system would work on attacking pathogens more than food and environmental allergies. 😅
I'm so sorry! Allergies are the worst-especially food allergies where cross contamination can happen quite easily. I'm glad to hear you're better after our anaphylactic response!
For the “paid out” portion, that may refer to the dressmaker having to acquire the material or some portion of it herself. It is still common practice for businesses to reimburse employees for business purchases made from their own funds. Hubby has gotten “paid outs” for equipment purchased for the store and that is how it was termed then.
You're probably right! That was a common practice back then as well I just had not seen that term before. Thank you for teaching me that!
Do you know how to get a pattern for an old fashioned bonnet?
Can you give me a more specific time frame and do you want a sunbonnet pattern for a fashion bonnet pattern? I have different recommendations for different time periods and style of bonnet.
@@KatelynKearns I want to sew a bonnet that women used to wear when working in the field and garden. I am in the process of designing my own pattern right now. I am planning to make it entirely the way they used to make them in the 19th century, without any type of elastic and drawstrings to allow for adjustments while wearing.
@@birgitelisabeth9661 So you want a sunbonnet! Sunbonnets varied a LOT in style (an 1830s sunbonnet looks wildly different from an 1860s sunbonnet, which looks very different from an 1880s sunbonnet, etc.) so there is no way to have a sunbonnet that works for the whole 19th century. If you're looking for 1830s-1880s sunbonnets, Marna Davis has amazing patterns that she drafts right from her originals. www.etsy.com/shop/WickedStepmothers?ref=shop-header-name&listing_id=949021892&from_page=listing&search_query=sunbonnet
@@KatelynKearnsMay I piggyback off this comment and ask for a recommendation for an 1840s fashion bonnet pattern? Thanks in advance! I love your content!
@@corinnecox6855 For fashion bonnets, I always recommend Danielle at Timely Tresses! www.timelytresses.com/store/c24/1838-1853.html#/. I know Danielle in "real life" and not only is she very kind and helpful, she is extremely knowledgeable and takes her patterns from her collection of many originals.