Description
Book SynopsisStays and Corsets: Historical Patterns Translated for the Modern Body goes a step beyond traditional historical costuming texts by not only providing you with historical pattern diagrams and information, but by showing you how to adapt these patterns to the contemporary body shape. Using her original pattern-drafting system, author Mandy Barrington will show you how to draft a historical pattern for a modern body shape, while still retaining an accurate historical silhouette.
Each pattern has been generated from an original stay, corset, or pattern taken from a historical garment. The instructions to follow these new patterns are designed to accommodate any size of female figure, allowing you to avoid extremely difficult, time consuming, and inaccurate historical pattern re-sizing Requiring only basic prior knowledge of pattern drafting, all calculations have been worked out for the costume maker and are provided in simple tables accompanied by easy-to-read, step-by-step diagrams that clearly show how the historical pattern is plotted onto the female basic block, coupled with photographs of the constructed stays and corsets.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
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- How to use this book
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Guidance on the pattern drafting process
A guide to finding the measurements for your historical pattern
- Pattern Drafting Tools
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- Female Measurements
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Taking Accurate Measurements
Female Measurement Form
Female Measurements Guide
Standard Female Measurements
- The Female Basic Block Pattern
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Female Basic Block Instructions
Preparing the Female Basic Block for your Historic Pattern
- Historical Patterns
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Introduction
1735-50 Fully-boned Corset Bodice
1776 Half-boned Stays
1785-88 Half-boned Stays
1793 Fully-boned Short Stays
1820 White Cotton Corset
1860 Closed Front Corset
1875 Corded and Quilted Corset
1890 Riding Corset
1890 Wasp-waist Corset
Glossary
Costume collections
Suppliers
Further Reading
Credits
Acknowledgements
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