This
year I've decided to participate in The
Historical Sew Monthly 2015. You can read about it here:
http://thedreamstress.com/the-historical-sew-monthly-2015/
And
probably it's time to start blogging about my sewing experiments,
historical and not only.
The
challenge for January is Foundations:
make
something that is the foundation of a period outfit.
I
decided to make men corset/ body belt for my husband for the first
half of the 19th century. I've found very few sources
about this period men corsets, some of them very dubious, but there
are two which seem rather true-to-fact to me:
http://brightonmuseum-regencyreproductions.blogspot.com/
http://www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org/proddir/prod/496/13/
I
used pattern from the second source: body belt from which
belonged to
Thomas John Chew (1825-1830), USS Constitution Museum Collection. Museum
item:
This
is the result:
