Great catch! Thank you so much! Lauren M. Walker lauren.wal...@comcast.net
On Sep 17, 2013, at 6:42 PM, Emily Gilbert wrote: > I'm not an expert on this topic, but looking at the link to the fashion notes > for the year, which refer to the "curious and startling" open-crowned coronet > bonnet (toward the bottom of the left-hand column on that page), I'd say it's > reasonably safe to assume that your leghorn does have a crown! > > Emily > > > On 9/17/2013 2:11 PM, Lauren Walker wrote: >> Hi, >> Yes, the brim is wavy, but apparently that's a way of styling the "leghorn >> flat", since the written description calls it a "flat". (It's Fig. 2 in the >> descriptions here.) >> http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015004176882;view=1up;seq=185 >> >> So frequently, the descriptions assume we know the contemporaneous >> interpretation of the terms; they knew how this season's leghorn was shaped, >> and weren't thinking of us 120 years later trying to figure it out! >> >> The previous issue's general discussion of fashion notes that the leghorn >> flat has made it's annual debut, and this year is twisted and bent as suits >> the wearer's fancy. >> http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015004176882;view=1up;seq=86 >> >> I think I'm going with light, flexible straw -- that part of the definition >> of "leghorn" seems to have stayed pretty constant -- and hoping to use >> millinery wire to get the bends in the brim to stay put. >> >> Lauren M. Walker >> lauren.wal...@comcast.net >> >> >> >> On Sep 17, 2013, at 2:12 PM, Lynn Downward wrote: >> >>> As I recall, leghorn describes the type of straw the hat is made of. Also, >>> that brim is wavy, not flat at all. It's a gorgeous hat! >>> >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:06 AM, Lauren Walker >>> <lauren.wal...@comcast.net>wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> Working on the last of the four 19th-century fashion plates I'm recreating >>>> as doll outfits! I would like to check in with those more familiar with >>>> 19th-century millinery about the hat. It's an 1889 "flat leghorn", >>>> according to Godey's text; I'm trying to confirm that it has a low flat >>>> crown rather than an open one or a completely flat one. >>>> (figure on the right): >>>> http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015004176882;view=1up;seq=109 >>>> Any thoughts? >>>> Thank you! >>>> (The third outfit was a nightmare; I remade it four times. Eventually I >>>> got the chiffon pleated in a satisfactory manner using a pleating board and >>>> plenty of starch, but no heat. There will be photos of all once the full >>>> project is done and the gift given to its intended recipient.) >>>> >>>> Thanks again for all your aid. This has been so much fun! Even the pleat >>>> nightmare. >>>> Lauren >>>> >>>> >>>> Lauren M. Walker >>>> lauren.wal...@comcast.net >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> h-costume mailing list >>>> h-costume@mail.indra.com >>>> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> h-costume mailing list >>> h-costume@mail.indra.com >>> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> h-costume mailing list >> h-costume@mail.indra.com >> http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume >> > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
