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Posts tagged: Edwardian

Progress on a Divided Skirt for Ms. Babbage

Posted in Historical

  • 19th Century
  • Bifurcated skirt
  • Edwardian
  • Plumleigh Augusta Babbage
  • Victorian

I mentioned early on that I wanted to try drafting a bifurcated skirt out of a period tailoring manual. I’m still doing that, sort of. Except, I’m also kind of cheating, because I realized that if I enlarged this one:

Cross-saddle Riding Skirt from the “Standard” Work on Cutting Ladies’ Tailor-made Garments, 1908

…so that the front measurement (line C-G) was the right length for my models, it worked out that the waist was also right (in other words, the measurements I needed to draft to are pretty much correctly proportioned to the book’s draft).

May 7th, 2012

 

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