Nearly finished with this Nile green silk corset, Ref S from ateliersylphe.
Pictures when it’s flossed and I get the nerve to wear it for the camera!
Corsets
And Something For The Bridal Line…
I‘ve been slowly building a dress sample based on the styles of tea gowns and lingerie dresses from the 1899-1905 era for our Bridal line. This one is all fine sheer cottons, mostly pearl white worn over buttercream yellow, antique lace front panels and insertion, and dyed to match silk ribbon. Our original idea was to make this from white over blue…and then a friend gifted me with a bolt of vintage white and yellow dotted Swiss, and everything changed! 🙂
An S-Bend Corset…
Recently, we came across this nice example of a circa 1900-03 basic S-bend corset from the collection of Anton Priymak in St. Petersburg, Russia, and we just had to share it:
And here are a few close-ups:
Judging from the label, this corset was made locally in Athens, Greece:
Stitching Away…
Stitching in the ditch on a Friday or any other night…fun! 🙂
And Straight From Paris…
We brought back this huge roll of violet silk duchesse satin from Paris (we carried it all over Montmartre last November!) with the intent of using it for corsets…so I’ll make this sample, then the rest remains for my purple-loving clients. Deee-lish! ♡
