Late 19th century/Early 20th century Petticoat

[atherleisure]

I finally took pictures! I've got the lace-trimmed petticoat and the 1870's Le Baiser dress.

Boring thing first: the petticoat
The upper part of the petticoat is from a pattern in Fashions of the Gilded Age The bottom is a flounce three yards in circumference. I found a museum piece* with nine ~1/4" tucks and an eyelet edging and used that as my inspiration for the flounce. Mine has hand-knit lace instead of eyelet.



For reasons that I have completely forgotten, I put ties on the waist of this petticoat instead of a button and buttonhole. I got it from somewhere, but I really do not remember where. It's a little annoying to do up but not terrible.

Anyway, I figure it's appropriate for not only the natural form period when the pattern was published but also the years after the turn of the twentieth century. I think it will be appropriate as far into the 20th century as hems brushed the floor.

It makes me happy because I have a petticoat with hand-knit lace. Not only hand-knit lace, but hand-knit lace from a period pattern. That definitely makes me feel good about my costuming self.

*I tried to link to the webpage in the Met instead of Pinterest, but the Met site kept giving me errors so you get a Pinterest link.

Comments

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Yay! It's beautiful! I think it will be very versatile, too. It looks very similar to basic Edwardian/Teens petticoats.

[atherleisure.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I thought it looked good for that period. I think I've actually handled early 20th century petticoats, and it has definite similarities.