I think the "pointy bust" is a good indicator of just how well pattern makers used to contour their patterns to fit the wearers' curves. Even modern luxury ready-to-wear manufacturers don't do this. I sorta understand why (garments so fitted to a specific shape won't fit everyone) but it makes the final product look so much better. Bravo on the video btw!

this was very helpful and very fascinating I have a 1920 stance and wanted to see how to modify a dress to make it look more authentic. having a little experience handling antiques you might consider wearing rubber gloves so that your oil from your hands does not wear off onto the fabric and make it deteriorate even faster. I know I love to touch fabric too but it's just a thought those are very fragile fibers. my wedding gown was a beautiful white beaded dress with a drop waist and a circle skirt that was sort of handkerchief found and I don't have it anymore and I had a piece that snapped up over the front to fill in the v-line that drop down to the waist and I can't explain it but I've always thought it was a 1920 dress it was so gorgeous.

A lot of fabric yardage was only 35 inches wide back then. Thanks for the video!

The 30's is my top favourite era

Thank you so much for this up close look!! Especially of the Robe de Style! I'm just about to attempt to sew a Robe de Style, and finding info showing their interior and construction has proven to be a challenge!!

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1930s dress making was immaculate! I specifically only wear 1930s and 1940s dresses and they have held up so well I’m able to teach and move around all day on them with NO issues at all!! And they still feel brand new!

So nice! Here in my country it’s not easy at all to be able to apreciate historical clothes; thanks for sharing your beautiful collection!!

Thank you for the very informative video! I've been trying to make a 1930s dress for myself. I was a garment technician by trade, but my god the images of 1930s dresses messed my brain up so bad because I could not see any opening! I was soooo confused. I ended up with the conclusion that they either really didn't have openings or had side zippers. Gald that I found your video to back up my conclusion.

Thank you for sharing these beautiful pieces! I’m obsessed with the 30s so it’s a real treat to see what items from that time actually looked like!

I don’t understand why you think that the trapeze dress is weird. It was all the rage. The wilder the fabric the better. A great deal of the dresses were either a-line or princess which I don’t see here. Waistlines were being totally discarded by the end of the 60’s. And that coat is totally reminiscent of the Jacqueline Kennedy look that took the country by storm in the early 60’s. The 2 last dresses look like bridesmaids dresses around the mid 60’s.

Remember the signs in London in the 1960's, "No youths in Edwardian dress?" Tempus fugit.

I love these styles. My wedding dress was Gunne Sax.

Wonderful dresses, ❤ camera work!

You need to work on sound because sometimes it is hard to hear you. An amazing video. Thank you❤

The Violet with yellow is absolutely royal dress. Two most expensive natural pigments.

The 1970's may have been cool, but the fashion was ugly.

I really like a little shoulder pad. I was dismayed by their absence in the nineties. I thought it made women look droopy. I wore lots of poly white blouses with front detail, bows, ties, pleats or lace detail, like a man's shirt , but prettied up. They were eternal; they never lost their crisp appearance, and that fabric never degraded. They were also hot. You didn't mention pants, which became straight-legged, high waisted, and often pleated, even jeans. Gone wer the flamboyant prints and colors of late 60's ad 70's. Everyone dressed solemnly, like businessmen. These are my recollections.

In the 70's, I wore full-length skirts, sometimes full land split like palazzo pants, halter or just square piece of fabric front/backless dresses. Alternately, miniskirts so short, they came with matching panties, puff sleeves and drawstring bodice, imitating pirate blouses from movies. All this with platform sandals, seed and shell beads, chandelier earrings, paisley prints in orange, gold, purple, khaki. Fabric was acetate or poly. What you showed here was very conservative compared to our fashion.

Thank you So Much for showing this! This is something I have been curious about: the structure and insides and techniques used in these beautiful dresses.

Really fun! I love 20's dresses, too bad your camera angle was so high, we can't hardly see anything :(

Do you know what that pintucked, blue with white lace dress is made of? It looks like a very fine fabric.

It's fascinating that the Guild was formed to try to protect original fashion designs. Unfortunately, when they lost their Supreme Court appeal, they paved the way for fast fashion knock offs. Amazing how these things echo through the years. Your collection is wonderful. Well done, you. Thank you for sharing! Those shoes are amazing! _Side Question_ - Our church just came into possession of two vestments/copes from the early 1900's/late 20's. The good news is they were stored in a trunk for a few decades. The bad news is they were just tossed into that trunk; everywhere there was a fold is now in need of stabilization, plus the normal wear and tare. Our priest wants to bring them back into circulation. Right now I'm hunting for the best historical practice methods to preserve these pieces so they can be used for another 100 years. Do you know of any resources (I'm asking everyone on the CosTube)? I realize this is outside the wheel-house of what you're studying, but you never know who knows who in this green earth. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi

Interesting! I am researching for fashion of the 70s to match my classic 1978 car haha. How would you call the model/style of the top at 4:25?

60 years and already I don’t remember the 1960 dresses like you described but I do remember the skirt lengths above knees in 1962. I liked my skirts a little below the knees my commanding officer wanted them just touching the top of the knee.

Show us the 1930 sewing machine special attachments.

The Gunne Sax dresses remind me of a couple of the beautiful Laura Ashley dresses from the UK that my Mum had around 1969-71, she had one that was rose pink with a tiny floral print and lace edging that was cream, with a pie crust collar. Her wedding dress was a similar shape. The last red dress with the short skirt, could either be from when the hemlines started to lengthen in around 1968, but it could also be an early 1990's dress as a shortened version of the 1930's/'40's tea dress came back with some of the grunge movement then and many people bought and wore vintage dresses and altered them as well. I can remember having a couple of short floral dresses that were similar prints. I'm not sure if that dress has a label, or if it is handmade, but that may help date the dress.

I like the green cherry dress. 🌹

Thank you for sharing! Those are wonderful period dresses.

So fascinating. I would love to see someone clone these dresses.

Love these videos!!

So glad I found your channel! I’m a new sewist and quickly realized the world of fabric is DAUNTING to say the least but such a fantastical journey!

It's funny how people think only one type of dress is worn during certain decade. We have all different styles and everyone has their own preferences. With everyone making their own dresses during the 1920s I'm surprised there's any consistency at all.

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so interesting!! and you're so pretty too!

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I love how nice you talk about dresses. So nice

Great video 🌺🙂

I had a Gunne Sax prom dress.

Oh I remember these. Good times 70s.

One of my old treadle machines has a foot especially for the ribbon embellishment plus, of course, tuckers and hemmers galore!

Lovely video with lots of detailed description about the dresses. Shame your voice fades as you turn away to highlight the details of the dresses and your voice is muffled.

1960's also had metal zips. I remember my mom used them (I was born 1965) and I still have a few I resently got from somebody who moved house.

Love seeing the inside of old dresses. I like that they use the selvedge of fabric. Nowadays people indutriasly cut of the selvedges and waste a lot of fabric. I keep them as you never know when you'll need that extra milimeter or 2

OK this collections cracks me up, I was a teen in high school until 1984, then of coarse a young woman. These pieces look like they are from the show "Dynasty" Real every day women and young girls DID NOT DRESS THIS WAY The Gunne Sax dress was one of the worst examples......I own three the most popular were the floral prints and the very pale (lots of lace) or white. I'm sure you already know this but I thought I would comment. God Bless PS in my teens I was in the suburbs of Seattle WA.

This is one of my favorite periods for fashion, I own several of my Grandmothers suits (PENCIL styles) Hats and gloves, and hand bags. And yes I wear them ALL the time. I also have some circle skirts. God Bless PS: They were called.....torpedo bra's, LOL also just a fun historical fact for you, young girls and women used a sugar water solution to stiffen their petty coats. So many families were still struggling financially in the early fifties. I know this because of my mother and Aunts who lived as teens during this time.

Just found your channel (yep I subscribed) You did an amazing job on this video. Thanks for sharing God Bless

Great tutorial. Love your channel. Thank you.

Your channel is very educational. I am learning a lot. Thank you very much.

Thanks for this lovely presentation! I appreciate very much the look into the making of the garments of 1900…and the way you show your passion for details!