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#waistcoat

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Alice
Two creations from two weeks ago, as christmas gifts for friends🎄

🤶 a pair of stays (end of the 18th), wearable both sides to make it underwear for historical outfit or as fantasy clothes on a daily wear. Pattern by @redthreaded

🎅 A simple waistcoat, with recycling fabric, to use as element for a fantasy costum

Would you have loved to find these under the tree ? What did you ask Santa ?

#christmasgift #handmade #historicalfashion #corset #entreprisefrançaise #costum #stays #waistcoat #sewing
#sewing
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Petra van Cronenburg

#Upcycling. #SlowFashion I have old #jackets that no longer fit me at the arms and in the broader shoulders (muscles are apparently not intended for women). I didn't want to give away this piece of pure #linen.
What happens if I radically cut out the too-tight ugly sleeves? It changes! Fits, except at the waist. A simple trick: I remove the buttons. And close it with a single beautiful button that sits in the place of the left one. I just have to hem the sleeves again, done! #waistcoat @sewing

Back. I have removed shoulder pads and sleeves. Looks now like a perfect waistcoat and will be fine with jeans.
Front. I have removed shoulder pads and sleeves.
A ladies' jacket in the fashion of the late 1980s, bought in Warsaw in 1993 in the old state's Department Store Centrum. The style with overemphasised shoulder pads, and accentuated, pointed corners is no longer wearable for me. But the fabric is pure linen in a quality that is hard to find today. Linen colours, natural. Large buttons on the belly and cuffs. Suit collar.
Shoulder pads made of foam that disgustingly disintegrates. Inside the mesh fabric, all the foam has crumbled into a sticky residue.
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Snarkology

«There was an old man of Port Grigor,
Whose actions were noted for vigour;
He stood on his head
till his #waistcoat turned red,
That eclectic old man of Port Grigor.»

(#EdwardLear, 1872)


«He was black in the face,
and they scarcely could trace
The least likeness to what he had been:
While so great was his fright
that his #waistcoat turned white –
A wonderful thing to be seen!»

(#LewisCarroll, from “#TheHuntingOfTheSnark”, 1876)

#limerick #limericks

See also: snrk.de/waistcoat-poetry/

The two poems from the toot and illustrations by Edward Lear and Henry Holiday
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Snarkology

«There was an old man of Port Grigor,
Whose actions were noted for vigour;
He stood on his head
till his #waistcoat turned red,
That eclectic old man of Port Grigor.»

(#EdwardLear, 1872)

 
«He was black in the face,
and they scarcely could trace
The least likeness to what he had been:
While so great was his fright
that his #waistcoat turned white –
A wonderful thing to be seen!»

(#LewisCarroll, from “#TheHuntingOfTheSnark”, 1876)


Background info: snrk.de/waistcoat-poetry/

Illustrations by Edward Lear and Henry Holiday releted to the two poems by Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll
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