1900's Combinations

[atherleisure]

I finished the 1900's combination undergarment this week. It's a combination drawers and corset cover, according to the pattern, which I got from The Edwardian Modiste, page 245. It's made of cotton batiste trimmed with tatted lace and silk ribbons. My combinations do not have as much trim as the pattern image showed, but since I tatted all my trim, I don't care. I'm really not into very decorative underwear anyway.

The pattern doesn't say anything about any fastenings, and the picture doesn't show any except that it has ribbons at neck and waist. I don't trust drawstring ribbons to keep anything shut so I put a button and buttonhole at neck and waist behind the ribbons.

All the lace patterns came from Butterick's Tatting and Netting published in 1895.





Sleeves:


Legs:


Waist:


Neck:


I really should look at my reference pictures more often because I only realized when I went to put the thing together that the neck has a beading with ribbon in the pattern picture. I should have picked a pattern with a beading or attached a beading to the edge of the pattern I did choose (which is actually just a modified version of the sleeve lace with extra picots in the chains so that it could make a concave curve neatly instead of a convex curve. I was tired of working on laces by the time I made the actual garment so I just ran the ribbon through the chains on the lace I made. Not ideal, perhaps, but I thought it pretty.

Comments

[marianme]

Amazing. The lace is so pretty and I thought the neck ribbon was supposed to do.

[mandie_rw]

So pretty! I especially love the lace at the waist.

And isn't it crazy how very trimmed late Victorian/Edwardian underwear is? I never have the patience to put quite that much on...

[danabren]

Soap operas and YouTube were very boring back then, plenty more time to trimm up your knickers instead ;D

[danabren]

My combinations do not have as much trim as the pattern image showed, but since I tatted all my trim, I don't care.

That you made (MADE!!!) enough lace to trim your smalls is an incredible achievement. My hat is off to you.

[atherleisure]

Thank you.

[atherleisure]

Thank you. I love the look of beading, and I'll definitely consider tatting more the next time I need some. It went relatively fast.

I don't understand the elaborate trimming on things that no one will see. Plain serviceable underwear is good enough for me - in the preset and when playing in the past. I do find it kind of fun to do a bit of tatting for some underwear, but this was a lot.

[atherleisure]

Thank you very much. I just added it up, and it's 5.7 yards of lace. No wonder it took so long.

[danabren]

Phew. Be proud.