Regency Women's Dress by Cassidy Percoco

Author:Cassidy Percoco
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781849943512
Publisher: Pavilion Books
Published: 2015-09-13T16:00:00+00:00

A young woman in a high-waisted, classical style, wearing a white muslin gown with the simple, square-necked dresses of the early 1800s. Miniature by Friedrich Karl Groeger (1807).

Evening Dress

1804–1810

Blue silk dress courtesy of the New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown, NY (N1358-1943), showing a detail of the back.

This gown of robin’s-egg blue silk taffeta is largely unlined, with the side piece flatlined in white cotton and the back flatlined to the broken line; the silk of the side piece is pieced independently of the lining. The front of the bodice is darted slightly, with the darts turned towards the centre and topstitched. The inside of the neckline hem holds an eyelet 12mm (½in) from the centre on either side, in order to allow the neckline to be slightly gathered to fit. The unlined strap attaches to the front from the mark to the edge of the piece. The back silk and lining lap the side piece and are topstitched down. The back neckline and waist are both gathered on drawstrings: the neckline drawstring is a narrow, yellowed white silk ribbon, while the waist drawstring is a wide but lightweight light green silk ribbon.

The puffed sleeve is heavily pieced in vertical strips. The lower edge of the sleeve is whipped to the outer side of the binding; the binding is then turned in and whipped down.

The skirt attachment to the bodice front was altered during the period. The bottom of the bodice is currently turned up and to the inside over a folded linen tape, with the skirt lapped over it and topstitched down. The rest of the skirt is backstitched to the bodice as usual. The bottom of the skirt itself is tucked as shown; the left side of the front is then tucked with the tuck pointing toward the centre front; the right side of the front, because it doesn’t have the tuck, is only 34cm (13½in) wide.

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