#underpinnings

via university of new hampshire

Today's outfit of the day is this 1957 Jaques Fath evening dress worn by Lady Gladwyn, the wife of a British ambassador to Paris when hosting the Queen and Prince Phillip at the Louvre. It is made of lilac lace with a silk petticoat and a velvet sash. The underpinnings are as beautiful as the dress itself, featuring a corset bodice and a petticoat of various layers of netting (two in the front and five in the back attached to a pink lining). The hem is also lined with wire to keep its shape. Via the V&A.

Flapjack, Hillstream loach, flipside

Photographer: Eugene Atget

Silk matka, cotton coutil, cotton poplin, satin ribbon, cotton lace, antique brass suspenders

Pattern for a (riding) Habit Shirt for a Dress, Lady's Magazine September 1812.

A shift, stays, and quilted petticoat project from grad school. My summer housing had this field of dandelions next door, it was early pandemic and my roommate and I weren't going anywhere so obviously a whole evening became a photoshoot.