Not sure this is not going to be interesting for anyone... but in the nov 1897, where there was that weird sleeve pattern... turns out, what that was, was a pattern on how to turn the sleeve of the original dress (fig 6 - smaller image) to the remade dress next to it. Both dress on that page and the one on the next page where dresses for younger girls at that "awkward" age from 12 to 15, where they are not children anymore, but should not look like young ladies yet. So, they are transforming the dress as the girl grows... and so that sleeve got made smaller but they added a "jockey" (that's what the extra part on the top of the sleeve is called) made out of velvet. Tons of more stuff in there but that's what jumped out at me.
Thank you for your translation, it seems my french skills have not let me down considering I understood everything just right! 😂😊 nice, 8 years worth of school teachings weren't wasted 😂😂
Well said. Here's the full text for anyone who wants to look into it further: A travers la mode Une dernière création Le corset est la poésie du corsage. On s’inclinera toujours devant le charme d’une taille souple, fine, ronde, pleine de grâce et d’abandon. On peut avoir un joli minois, mais si la taille laisse à désirer on n’obtiendra jamais un brevet de belle femme. Trop longtemps, la finesse de la taille a été obtenue aux dépens de la compression de l’estomac: de là les maladies sans nombre qui ont fait fulminer les médecins contre le corset. Aujourd’hui il en est tout autrement, les principaux membres du corps médical faisant exécuter par Madame Desbruères [her address], un corset sans busc et à fenêtres, admirablement combiné pour proteger les organes de la digestion, de la rewspiration et de la circulation, en même temps qu’il moule le buste et lui donne d’exquises proportions. C’est l’art venant au secours de la nature pour accuser harmonieusement les contours et répondre à toutes les exigences de la coquetterie la plus rafinée.
Sounds totally in line with the trend of "health corsets" and "corset alternatives" from the era, which were generally indistinguishable from existing corsets and often less comfortable.
In regards to handling antique paper, you're absolutely right- clean, dry hands are the industry standard, as wearing gloves makes people accidentally apply more force and lose tactile feedback. (Also, "Transformation d'une robe ancienne" means "transformation of an old dress"- presumably offering advice on how to upcycle older out of fashion clothes.)
Hi, there seems like there aren't much new under the sun. Upcycling that seems like something we should all embrace, was done ~125 years ago too. Yours, Ann
Speaking of goth and wearing taxidermied animals on ones head and integrating your distain for what people have done to victorian houses in NY: Let's create taxidermied rat scenes on our hats! To call awareness to public health issues😂 Also : The lobster table runner with the lady without ANY hint of lobster next to it deserves a frame! Thank you for sharing these catalogues with us. The details you pointed out, as well as the detail in the plates (you can really see the way the different fabrics drape and pucker!!) makes this series a true treat!
Hi, I translated for you the article about the corset. Keep in mind that I'm not a native speaker. Through Fashion A new creation Corset is the poetry of corsetry. One will always bow down in front of a souple, narrow, round waist, full of grace and abandonment. One can have a pretty face but if the waist is left to be desired, one can never be called a beautiful woman. For too long, the narrowness of the waist has been achieved at the expense of the compression of the stomach : from there come the multitude of ailements that have had the doctors fulminate against the corset. Today things are different, the main members of the medical profession having had Mme Desbruières (the lady's adress) make a buskless corset with windowes (couldnt find what that is), admirably combined to protect the organs for digestion, breathing, and (blood) circulation while moulding the bust and giving it exquisit proportions. It is art coming to nature's rescue to harmoniously bring out shapes and meet all the requirements of the most refined coquetry. Hope this helps
At 5:44 that bodice looks just like the purple dress during "dancing" and ",before the parade passed by" in the Hello Dolly film!!!!! I've heard people complain they NEVER would have worn that, and here we are!!!
So glad I’m not the only one who thought of Dolly’s dress here! And further on in the video you see some more of that diamond window pane pattern on dresses, so it was definitely a thing.
Catalog and catalogs is my number one favorite thing you do (although I've not seen the catalog that I sent you.. yet) other than your capsule collections. The circular boob trim made my entire day. I'm still chuckling 😂
I would like to see you recreate some of those lapels and collars to change up some of your jackets or blouses. I enjoy seeing the old pattern books and sales catalogs.
17:43 transformation d'une robe ancienne means refashioning an old dress. It seems the dress in the front is what can be done to make an old dress (the one in the back) fit with the new standards in fashion.
@@raraavis7782 Well the French version is quite fancy/old fashioned too "transformation of an ancient gown" would be a closer translation if you want to get the tone (yes, using the word "transformation" seems a bit odd to me in French as well and " robe ancienne" makes you think of a precious historic thing, nobody would use that phrase to talk about their old clothing now)
I can do this type of illustration. I kid you not. I like the bat wing shoulder caps on the drawing at the left. I did a copy of Alberto Vargass French fashion studies in his early career. I have not drawn in ink for some time but am confident I could again. Love these delineate and French illustrations.😊
Thanks for this, love when you do catalog videos. These years are for me a confusing mix of the craziest fugly I've ever seen and images of design desire which I want to make immediately. Also, very good for us big boobed gals. I would love to see you pattern the deflated puff sleeve. Took a screenshot at 32:03 for that jumper/pinafore dress with a deep V to the waist "en drap castor." A costume dictionary says: "Beaver cloth: Heavyweight, woolen fabric with soft finish and thick nap used to make overcoats." Wiki says: "Castor was a cloth lighter than beaver cloth, but otherwise similar. It was produced by using fine wool." Gonna make a modern version.
" the craziest fugly" 🤣🤣🤣 Ms.Skirted Galleons, I'm so in love with your phrase, the craziest fugly, that I plan to steal from time to time. Just the thought of it makes me 🤣🤣🤣. I also took a screenshot, timestamp 32:03, of the jumper/pinafore dress with the deep V while watching hoping to duplicate the bodice. Love your taste.💜
Very cool! 17:43 They're showing you how you can restyle an out of style dress. I spent a lot of time going through these types of materials when I was researching artists doing embroidery patterns. This made me look up what Russian green is since it appears a lot (vert russe). Seems like it was an oliveish green.
Figure 32 at 21:49 translate to rushed collar bordered with fur with a fox head. My french is a lot better than my english but I would have lot of fun doing some translation for you, would also be a good learning exercice for me
Oh my! The 1890's are my absolute favourite fashion period and these are just... DIVINE. Really enjoyed that whole romp through a dream wardrobe, please do more of the same. Your commentary and inspired descriptions are such fun, I hang onto every word. Oh, and when you do go time travelling back to that haberdashery, may I come with you, pretty please??
I love, love, love your channel and I am probably one of your biggest fans. I am 72 years young and have been sewing most of my life. You inspire me so much and I wish I could give back to you as much as you give to me and others. I am on a fixed income but I am happy to give what I can to be part of your patreon community. But more to the point is….. you mentioned in one of your patreon videos that you should get a table for your 99K. My grandmother left me an old “White” sewing machine that was in a cabinet. I’m sure you have seen those. The machine folds down into the cabinet. When you lift the top of the cabinet up the machine is then exposed and it creates a table top to the left of the machine. I would gladly give you that cabinet if you wanted it. I am downsizing and need to get rid of things. I will send it to the good will if you have no use for it. I would even drive it out to you. That’s how much I feel you have given to me. I just want to give back. Enough said. Let me know. I’m sorry your house hunting did not go so well. Your choices are amazing and I loved them. Best of luck!!
Thoroughly enjoyable and better with Earl Grey Tea and lemon than at midnight! I feel the urge to watch a period drama for sure... Thanks for all you do!🎉🎉🎉
I knew this would be cozy content. Thrilled to have this in my stash for the rainy day that is today. Thank you for being the sunshine breaking through my gloom
Love seeing these fashion magazines. Fascinating collars, sleeves, cuffs, and accessories. Yes to the Delineator, your antique jewelry, and belt buckle collections. Thanks, Bianca.
I love these videos! and of course THANK YOU for scanning them and uploading them. i have so many wonderful pins on pintrest because of you! And yes please for more of these, its always fun to watch. Also, thanks to everyone in the comments translating the french, its so fun to read!
Any time you want to go through any of your collections. I’m there! I’m collecting vicariously through RUclips lol! Such lovely things. The fact that you are also scanning things is wonderful. These sorts of things should be saved and enjoyed! Thanks for the lovely video. I had planned to work and listen but it was a great excuse for a coffee break!
Loved seeing these - please do more! I am enraptured with 1890s fashions. You were quite right about the mourning outfits in the first issue; the French word for mourning is “deuil” - pronounced (very roughly) “doye”.
5:13 First thing I noticed in seeing the thumbnail honestly: those almost bat-like sleeves 😮 I think there're ways to make them even more so and that would be perfect, if not less historically acurate 😅
Oh i have so many pages and catalogues from the Victorian era. I even organised them in archive binder for the loose pages (that's how i bought a lot on Ebay) and i can look at both side through the sleeves.❤ The big heavy (4"inch thick) "Victorian shopping Harrod's catalogue 1895" is a great reference book. Loaded with all the accesories, funeral service available, undergarments and with the price. If you can find it, it's a mine of information.
I absolutely want to see you rifle through more! I love these videos (and you're doing such a service to scan these!) and I enjoy seeing more time periods! :D
Omg! It is after midnight but I am coming back to this video tomorrow and your lantern bag!! Missed this amazing content. Look forward to a tea in the afternoon with this one! Thank you!🎉🎉
Yum some of them had some really nice shapes to them, but some too much frills. I have been buying a woollen/lining fabric just lately and there were a couple of skirts that my fabric would be perfect for. I’m so glad I bought more than I really needed after all lol (I do that when I’m not sure what I want to make but fall in love with the fabric) I will have to visit your Pinterest to have a closer look at the few outfits shown. Thank you for sharing them with us. I have some very old magazines from the 1940’s to 50’s they are packed away at this time, but they were of a time when they were all about the home sewer and knitter some of them still have the original pattern pieces that came with the magazine and they had never been pined to the fabric so I expect they had been copied onto old newspapers first. All of the text on them were not printed but rather were punched out of the paper. You have inspired me to get them scanned and uploaded once I find them from amongst my many stored boxes. 🤗
Oh yes this was so much fun! I had to stop and do some Google translation, and laughed when the cat head in 21.50 turned out to be just that: a head! 😂 Please do more of this. I enjoy it so much. I actually have some magazines from 1907, and one from 1897 (I think.) The pattern pages are still in some, it is fun to try follow them.
Thank you for the excellent content. You never fail to impress! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Of course, I would like to see your review of the Delineators as well as your antique jewelry collection. Who could turn either of those options down?😳🥺😳 I don't need to see the front to know I want the fitted Dracula Dream Cape, timestamp 27:55 December, 1897. It is spectacular! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐I'm all in if you can design something with that look. Also the jumper, pinafore, dress with the "V" to the waistline, timestamp 32:03, would be lovely in a modern version. I don't know what to call it exactly. No matter, thanks for the video. The information is great.
Hi, So nice to spend some time looking through fashion magazines with you. As always it comes down to hats to begin with. These aren't my cup of warm beverage of choice, as I take issue with not going with material that otherwise would be waste. No endangered animals plase, but other decorations are bonkers enough to warrant a second look if I can be let in on your Pinterest this time. I have not succeeded thus far, but who knows maybe tis time is the one where I make I in there. Thank you so much for the entertaining run through of what was fashionable in the late 1890's. Yours, Ann
Fun timing for this, I just drafted a jacket pattern from Keystone with leg of mutton sleeves. Their instructions were lacking so I actually used some tricks I've learned from watching you to fake the sleeves! The mockup in cotton paisley will be my lab coat :) But those bat wings! I hope you do those, I do so want to see them!
I love the look of the shoulders / yokes from @25:25 , particularly #26 and #28. I think some combination of the two styles, the lapels from 28 in the places of the patterned yoke of 26 kind of thing, with some exaggerated points... would be very nice especially in a hallowe'en theme or something spider-web aesthetic. with some moths "caught" in the "web" for accent? 😂 Very interesting and informative video and it piqued my curiosity about the french since I can only half-understand what's written. So of course I sent this video to my (French-Canadian) mother. 😊 I'm sure she will enjoy this greatly as well! please rest up your voice, looking forward to seeing your next videos once you've taking care of yourself!
6:02 Love the shape of this bodice but more so: I need a fabric like this (in various colors, black and gold or green and gold would be perfect) (apparently the color of the "toilette" (old-fashion word for "ensemble" in French) is light blue/lavender and is meant for a teen/young woman) 8:45 oh and this one in blue-green Scottish wool
I've been wondering what to do with a roll of lovely grey plaid pure wool I got on sale at my local dead stock fabric shop and that last check ensemble with the check on the bias might just be it! Yes, to the other magazines, jewellery and trialling that sleeve. Also the book Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather is an excellent account of the issue with birds/feathers and the formation of what became the RSPB (British society for the protection of birds). The statistics are eye-watering - both for the birds and the women and children who processed them.
I’d love to see you create in these styles. The hats especially seem very dramatic, and I’d be interested to see how your adaptations would make it look. As you say, delicious! I’ve always been confused by the shapes of the fronts of the torsos depicted in these kinds of catalogues or magazines. It always seems slightly ballooned to me, disguising the bosom essentially. I know corsets achieved certain shapes, but it does seem so unnatural that I wonder how that shape is structured in the clothing. (I may be showing my ignorance of clothing construction here! 😂) And yes, I would LOVE to see your collection of antique jewellery and buckles. It sounds heavenly. I think a full ballgown is in order - with the Dracula cape at 28 minutes…
Shaping was achieved as much by padding than forming of the actual body through the corset. In the case of the chest area not so much firm padding, as we use today, but floofy layers of fabric and lace, that would help fill out the outer layer and make it appear nice and rounded. And, of course, fashion illustrations were as exaggerated back then, as photoshopped images are today. It was the fashionable silhouette to try and achieve...but it's pretty safe to assume, that most women did not have a waist barely wider than their neck, for example, even corseted.
I would love to see the delineator in a video but don't over extend yourself - i know you have a lot going on. I really enjoyed seeing all those magnificent outfits and hats omg. Cataloguing catalogs is a brilliant series! 'judging people in new York for what they've done to victorian houses' - i *shudder* to even think of the crimes you have witnessed 😭. Im wondering if sometime in the future we may be seeing you in a certain dramatically beautiful cape 🤔
Please do more of these ! I love looking at those fashion magazines/plates with your expertise to point out interesting details.
Yes!
Absolutely!!! I rewatch these videos a lot :)
Not sure this is not going to be interesting for anyone... but in the nov 1897, where there was that weird sleeve pattern... turns out, what that was, was a pattern on how to turn the sleeve of the original dress (fig 6 - smaller image) to the remade dress next to it.
Both dress on that page and the one on the next page where dresses for younger girls at that "awkward" age from 12 to 15, where they are not children anymore, but should not look like young ladies yet.
So, they are transforming the dress as the girl grows... and so that sleeve got made smaller but they added a "jockey" (that's what the extra part on the top of the sleeve is called) made out of velvet. Tons of more stuff in there but that's what jumped out at me.
Thank you that is wonderful to know. I had been wondering what I could bribe my niece with to get her to try and translate some of these!
Ah, puberty. An awful time in any era.
I vote ‘yes’ for a Delineator video if you have the inclination!! :)
Bonjour from France Miss Bianca!!! what a lovely set of catalogues omg
Thank you for your translation, it seems my french skills have not let me down considering I understood everything just right! 😂😊 nice, 8 years worth of school teachings weren't wasted 😂😂
Well said. Here's the full text for anyone who wants to look into it further:
A travers la mode
Une dernière création
Le corset est la poésie du corsage.
On s’inclinera toujours devant le charme d’une taille souple, fine, ronde, pleine de grâce et d’abandon.
On peut avoir un joli minois, mais si la taille laisse à désirer on n’obtiendra jamais un brevet de belle femme.
Trop longtemps, la finesse de la taille a été obtenue aux dépens de la compression de l’estomac: de là les maladies sans nombre qui ont fait fulminer les médecins contre le corset.
Aujourd’hui il en est tout autrement, les principaux membres du corps médical faisant exécuter par Madame Desbruères [her address], un corset sans busc et à fenêtres, admirablement combiné pour proteger les organes de la digestion, de la rewspiration et de la circulation, en même temps qu’il moule le buste et lui donne d’exquises proportions.
C’est l’art venant au secours de la nature pour accuser harmonieusement les contours et répondre à toutes les exigences de la coquetterie la plus rafinée.
Sounds totally in line with the trend of "health corsets" and "corset alternatives" from the era, which were generally indistinguishable from existing corsets and often less comfortable.
Yes! I would love to see you go through the Delineator! 😁
Yes! Yes! Yes! To Delineator. I love cataloguing catalogs
The time travel was delightful
In regards to handling antique paper, you're absolutely right- clean, dry hands are the industry standard, as wearing gloves makes people accidentally apply more force and lose tactile feedback.
(Also, "Transformation d'une robe ancienne" means "transformation of an old dress"- presumably offering advice on how to upcycle older out of fashion clothes.)
And fabric can get stuck in the fibers you handle and rip it becouse you also not feel it's stuck
Hi, there seems like there aren't much new under the sun. Upcycling that seems like something we should all embrace, was done ~125 years ago too. Yours, Ann
Speaking of goth and wearing taxidermied animals on ones head and integrating your distain for what people have done to victorian houses in NY: Let's create taxidermied rat scenes on our hats! To call awareness to public health issues😂
Also : The lobster table runner with the lady without ANY hint of lobster next to it deserves a frame!
Thank you for sharing these catalogues with us. The details you pointed out, as well as the detail in the plates (you can really see the way the different fabrics drape and pucker!!) makes this series a true treat!
I would love to see your antique jewelry! And its so fun to see these fashion plates.
Hi, I translated for you the article about the corset. Keep in mind that I'm not a native speaker.
Through Fashion
A new creation
Corset is the poetry of corsetry. One will always bow down in front of a souple, narrow, round waist, full of grace and abandonment. One can have a pretty face but if the waist is left to be desired, one can never be called a beautiful woman.
For too long, the narrowness of the waist has been achieved at the expense of the compression of the stomach : from there come the multitude of ailements that have had the doctors fulminate against the corset. Today things are different, the main members of the medical profession having had Mme Desbruières (the lady's adress) make a buskless corset with windowes (couldnt find what that is), admirably combined to protect the organs for digestion, breathing, and (blood) circulation while moulding the bust and giving it exquisit proportions.
It is art coming to nature's rescue to harmoniously bring out shapes and meet all the requirements of the most refined coquetry.
Hope this helps
Did someone say antique jewelry collection??! Yes, I would very much like to see that! Please and thank you.
At 5:44 that bodice looks just like the purple dress during "dancing" and ",before the parade passed by" in the Hello Dolly film!!!!! I've heard people complain they NEVER would have worn that, and here we are!!!
So glad I’m not the only one who thought of Dolly’s dress here! And further on in the video you see some more of that diamond window pane pattern on dresses, so it was definitely a thing.
Lobster embroidery pattern! I have never considered this potential before today.
Catalog and catalogs is my number one favorite thing you do (although I've not seen the catalog that I sent you.. yet) other than your capsule collections. The circular boob trim made my entire day. I'm still chuckling 😂
I would like to see you recreate some of those lapels and collars to change up some of your jackets or blouses. I enjoy seeing the old pattern books and sales catalogs.
17:43 transformation d'une robe ancienne means refashioning an old dress. It seems the dress in the front is what can be done to make an old dress (the one in the back) fit with the new standards in fashion.
Make do and mend! Very fun!
I love how it sounds so much more fancy, when you say it in French 😅
@@raraavis7782 Well the French version is quite fancy/old fashioned too "transformation of an ancient gown" would be a closer translation if you want to get the tone (yes, using the word "transformation" seems a bit odd to me in French as well and " robe ancienne" makes you think of a precious historic thing, nobody would use that phrase to talk about their old clothing now)
I can do this type of illustration. I kid you not. I like the bat wing shoulder caps on the drawing at the left. I did a copy of Alberto Vargass French fashion studies in his early career. I have not drawn in ink for some time but am confident I could again. Love these delineate and French illustrations.😊
Thanks for this, love when you do catalog videos. These years are for me a confusing mix of the craziest fugly I've ever seen and images of design desire which I want to make immediately. Also, very good for us big boobed gals. I would love to see you pattern the deflated puff sleeve. Took a screenshot at 32:03 for that jumper/pinafore dress with a deep V to the waist "en drap castor." A costume dictionary says: "Beaver cloth: Heavyweight, woolen fabric with soft finish and thick nap used to make overcoats." Wiki says: "Castor was a cloth lighter than beaver cloth, but otherwise similar. It was produced by using fine wool." Gonna make a modern version.
" the craziest fugly" 🤣🤣🤣 Ms.Skirted Galleons, I'm so in love with your phrase, the craziest fugly, that I plan to steal from time to time. Just the thought of it makes me 🤣🤣🤣. I also took a screenshot, timestamp 32:03, of the jumper/pinafore dress with the deep V while watching hoping to duplicate the bodice. Love your taste.💜
@@beatricenowell8207 Steal away! Glad to make someone laugh.
Definitely would love to see more of the 1890s stuff. X3 It's cool getting to see just how wild the Victorians were being with their style lines.
Love that era, so yes would LOVE for you to go over the Delineator as well!
Yesssss this series is always a special occasion ! Thanks Professor B!!!
Very cool! 17:43 They're showing you how you can restyle an out of style dress. I spent a lot of time going through these types of materials when I was researching artists doing embroidery patterns. This made me look up what Russian green is since it appears a lot (vert russe). Seems like it was an oliveish green.
Figure 32 at 21:49 translate to rushed collar bordered with fur with a fox head. My french is a lot better than my english but I would have lot of fun doing some translation for you, would also be a good learning exercice for me
Oh my! The 1890's are my absolute favourite fashion period and these are just... DIVINE. Really enjoyed that whole romp through a dream wardrobe, please do more of the same. Your commentary and inspired descriptions are such fun, I hang onto every word. Oh, and when you do go time travelling back to that haberdashery, may I come with you, pretty please??
I would LOVE another video like this
I love, love, love your channel and I am probably one of your biggest fans. I am 72 years young and have been sewing most of my life. You inspire me so much and I wish I could give back to you as much as you give to me and others. I am on a fixed income but I am happy to give what I can to be part of your patreon community. But more to the point is….. you mentioned in one of your patreon videos that you should get a table for your 99K. My grandmother left me an old “White” sewing machine that was in a cabinet. I’m sure you have seen those. The machine folds down into the cabinet. When you lift the top of the cabinet up the machine is then exposed and it creates a table top to the left of the machine. I would gladly give you that cabinet if you wanted it. I am downsizing and need to get rid of things. I will send it to the good will if you have no use for it. I would even drive it out to you. That’s how much I feel you have given to me. I just want to give back. Enough said. Let me know. I’m sorry your house hunting did not go so well. Your choices are amazing and I loved them. Best of luck!!
“Let me know if you’d like to see-“. Yes please to all of it!
the corset with laces at the front is an ad for a corset they said is "good for your health but still fashionnable"
I like all the inventive ways they thought up to change an outfit with small bits of fabric!
17:08-17:32 Making do is accurate in itself. Lovely comment!
It's great seeing the wide variety of styles available at any given time. This really feeds the imagination!
I love these! Yes, please do the Delineator, & I would love to see your antique jewelry.
Yes, more of these. Also, yes to jewelry collection. Yes, also to anything else you think we may or may not be interested in -- we are.
Thoroughly enjoyable and better with Earl Grey Tea and lemon than at midnight! I feel the urge to watch a period drama for sure... Thanks for all you do!🎉🎉🎉
The jacket on the front of the magazine is classic. One could wear it today and it would look great!
I knew this would be cozy content. Thrilled to have this in my stash for the rainy day that is today. Thank you for being the sunshine breaking through my gloom
Love these old fashions! ❤
Love seeing the fashion plates. And so many on the pages of these periodicals! Yes to more and the jewelry too!❤❤
Dial back the ruffles, ladies! 😄 Love these, very inspiring.
I would love to see you go through the other fashion pages
Love seeing these fashion magazines. Fascinating collars, sleeves, cuffs, and accessories. Yes to the Delineator, your antique jewelry, and belt buckle collections. Thanks, Bianca.
I love these videos! and of course THANK YOU for scanning them and uploading them. i have so many wonderful pins on pintrest because of you! And yes please for more of these, its always fun to watch. Also, thanks to everyone in the comments translating the french, its so fun to read!
Any time you want to go through any of your collections. I’m there! I’m collecting vicariously through RUclips lol! Such lovely things. The fact that you are also scanning things is wonderful. These sorts of things should be saved and enjoyed!
Thanks for the lovely video. I had planned to work and listen but it was a great excuse for a coffee break!
Loved seeing these - please do more! I am enraptured with 1890s fashions. You were quite right about the mourning outfits in the first issue; the French word for mourning is “deuil” - pronounced (very roughly) “doye”.
5:13 First thing I noticed in seeing the thumbnail honestly: those almost bat-like sleeves 😮 I think there're ways to make them even more so and that would be perfect, if not less historically acurate 😅
They do look a bit Halloween-y, now that you mention it 👀
I’m so sad I didn’t get notifications on this video earlier! Glad I found it at last, I love the glimpse into the past these videos offer.
I would love to see you flip through the other magazine!
Cataloging catalogues is one of my favorite videos of yours to watch.
Oh i have so many pages and catalogues from the Victorian era. I even organised them in archive binder for the loose pages (that's how i bought a lot on Ebay) and i can look at both side through the sleeves.❤
The big heavy (4"inch thick) "Victorian shopping Harrod's catalogue 1895" is a great reference book. Loaded with all the accesories, funeral service available, undergarments and with the price.
If you can find it, it's a mine of information.
Of course I welcome hanging out and hearing your thoughts on catalogues.
I would sell a kidney to have these, omg they are amazing! They are exactly the years I love the most.
Please do more, would love to hear your comments on the Delineator catalogue.
yes please! I love you going through these magazines and catalogues 😊
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻aaah that is lovely.😍 Hope for more 19th century cataloging to see on your channel👌🏻
I can completely see you in some of these dresses/skirts & blouses and hats. Thank you for sharing these!
I absolutely want to see you rifle through more! I love these videos (and you're doing such a service to scan these!) and I enjoy seeing more time periods! :D
This is absolutely delightful and inspiring. Thank you.
I'd love a video on the American versions as well.
It's always interesting to see what's going on. Thanks for sharing
Omg! It is after midnight but I am coming back to this video tomorrow and your lantern bag!! Missed this amazing content. Look forward to a tea in the afternoon with this one! Thank you!🎉🎉
Ooh, it's been awhile since we've had a Cataloging Catalogs! They're always fun. 😊
Absolutely delicious! 😊 More please! What a delightful way to start my day 😍
Yay! Another Cataloging Catalogs video. I've missed these.
My mother and I always watch this series together, I would love to see the Delineator sometime as well!
Some of the fashion is crazy, but I'm all for it but not the birds, thank you for sharing this. ❤
Yum some of them had some really nice shapes to them, but some too much frills. I have been buying a woollen/lining fabric just lately and there were a couple of skirts that my fabric would be perfect for. I’m so glad I bought more than I really needed after all lol (I do that when I’m not sure what I want to make but fall in love with the fabric)
I will have to visit your Pinterest to have a closer look at the few outfits shown.
Thank you for sharing them with us.
I have some very old magazines from the 1940’s to 50’s they are packed away at this time, but they were of a time when they were all about the home sewer and knitter some of them still have the original pattern pieces that came with the magazine and they had never been pined to the fabric so I expect they had been copied onto old newspapers first. All of the text on them were not printed but rather were punched out of the paper.
You have inspired me to get them scanned and uploaded once I find them from amongst my many stored boxes. 🤗
I'd like to see you make some of these patterns in here, as best you can. Even if just out of muslin.
4:11 This one is already properly aesthetic, but what if those shoulders were bat wings or spider webs 😍
Oh yes this was so much fun!
I had to stop and do some Google translation, and laughed when the cat head in 21.50 turned out to be just that: a head! 😂
Please do more of this. I enjoy it so much.
I actually have some magazines from 1907, and one from 1897 (I think.) The pattern pages are still in some, it is fun to try follow them.
Excellent inspiration for a new winter dress. Thanks a lot!
Thank you for sharing I d love to see the other patterns 😁❤️🇬🇧
Thank you for the excellent content. You never fail to impress! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Of course, I would like to see your review of the Delineators as well as your antique jewelry collection. Who could turn either of those options down?😳🥺😳 I don't need to see the front to know I want the fitted Dracula Dream Cape, timestamp 27:55 December, 1897. It is spectacular! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐I'm all in if you can design something with that look. Also the jumper, pinafore, dress with the "V" to the waistline, timestamp 32:03, would be lovely in a modern version. I don't know what to call it exactly. No matter, thanks for the video. The information is great.
This is really neat, really enjoy your narration of the pieces that stand out to you. ❤
Delicious Cape is life goals.
Hi, So nice to spend some time looking through fashion magazines with you. As always it comes down to hats to begin with. These aren't my cup of warm beverage of choice, as I take issue with not going with material that otherwise would be waste. No endangered animals plase, but other decorations are bonkers enough to warrant a second look if I can be let in on your Pinterest this time. I have not succeeded thus far, but who knows maybe tis time is the one where I make I in there.
Thank you so much for the entertaining run through of what was fashionable in the late 1890's. Yours, Ann
Fun timing for this, I just drafted a jacket pattern from Keystone with leg of mutton sleeves. Their instructions were lacking so I actually used some tricks I've learned from watching you to fake the sleeves! The mockup in cotton paisley will be my lab coat :)
But those bat wings! I hope you do those, I do so want to see them!
What a lovely video did you provide here. Thank you so much.
17:36 it’s explaining how to achieve the “transformation of an old dress”. Basically, how to upcycle an old garment. 😝
So many collars! Collars on top of collars inside of collars!
Makes me gasp for breath!
I love this series, and this one is fabulous!!
they would give you the patterns with those magazines. The crazy big patterns sheets or just a cut one, I have both from that era ish.
I love the look of the shoulders / yokes from @25:25 , particularly #26 and #28. I think some combination of the two styles, the lapels from 28 in the places of the patterned yoke of 26 kind of thing, with some exaggerated points... would be very nice especially in a hallowe'en theme or something spider-web aesthetic. with some moths "caught" in the "web" for accent? 😂 Very interesting and informative video and it piqued my curiosity about the french since I can only half-understand what's written. So of course I sent this video to my (French-Canadian) mother. 😊 I'm sure she will enjoy this greatly as well!
please rest up your voice, looking forward to seeing your next videos once you've taking care of yourself!
It made me chuckle when you said it's hard to know whether or not it's a crochet pattern without knowing french, when the word crochet is french haha
Love your explanations and descriptions!
YAY! I love these ❤️🔥
Very interesting. Yes please, more. 😍 I noticed that they don't have lobster cages. So they had gone out of fashion by 1897 then.
Oh I love this type of video!! I would love it if you went through the Delineator.
Please do more!
I totally want to see you do the batwing dress.
6:02 Love the shape of this bodice but more so: I need a fabric like this (in various colors, black and gold or green and gold would be perfect)
(apparently the color of the "toilette" (old-fashion word for "ensemble" in French) is light blue/lavender and is meant for a teen/young woman)
8:45 oh and this one in blue-green Scottish wool
This video is so delicious, I have to save it for later 😩 please please do the Delineators as well
I've been wondering what to do with a roll of lovely grey plaid pure wool I got on sale at my local dead stock fabric shop and that last check ensemble with the check on the bias might just be it! Yes, to the other magazines, jewellery and trialling that sleeve. Also the book Mrs Pankhurst's Purple Feather is an excellent account of the issue with birds/feathers and the formation of what became the RSPB (British society for the protection of birds). The statistics are eye-watering - both for the birds and the women and children who processed them.
Yes to the antique jewellery tour, please
Beautiful!
I’d love to see you create in these styles. The hats especially seem very dramatic, and I’d be interested to see how your adaptations would make it look. As you say, delicious!
I’ve always been confused by the shapes of the fronts of the torsos depicted in these kinds of catalogues or magazines. It always seems slightly ballooned to me, disguising the bosom essentially. I know corsets achieved certain shapes, but it does seem so unnatural that I wonder how that shape is structured in the clothing. (I may be showing my ignorance of clothing construction here! 😂)
And yes, I would LOVE to see your collection of antique jewellery and buckles. It sounds heavenly.
I think a full ballgown is in order - with the Dracula cape at 28 minutes…
Shaping was achieved as much by padding than forming of the actual body through the corset.
In the case of the chest area not so much firm padding, as we use today, but floofy layers of fabric and lace, that would help fill out the outer layer and make it appear nice and rounded.
And, of course, fashion illustrations were as exaggerated back then, as photoshopped images are today.
It was the fashionable silhouette to try and achieve...but it's pretty safe to assume, that most women did not have a waist barely wider than their neck, for example, even corseted.
@@raraavis7782 very true! Thanks for taking the time to explain it.
I'd really love to see a demonstration of how to pattern some of these puff sleeve variations.
Very soon indeed I can promise ✨
I have the craziest neck, LONG and slender. I could totally pull off one of those collars!
I would love to see the delineator in a video but don't over extend yourself - i know you have a lot going on.
I really enjoyed seeing all those magnificent outfits and hats omg. Cataloguing catalogs is a brilliant series!
'judging people in new York for what they've done to victorian houses' - i *shudder* to even think of the crimes you have witnessed 😭.
Im wondering if sometime in the future we may be seeing you in a certain dramatically beautiful cape 🤔
I’m up for a part 2 😃
Yes to Deliniator and yes to antique jewelry videos please!