Dressing up for a walk, 1841 style

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Credits
Costumes and presentation
www.priorattire.co.uk
shoes
www.americanduchess.com
Photograph
y:
www.timelightphotographic.com
Location
Landmark Trust, Lynch Lodge

Music:
Sonatina no. 2 in F Major Allegro

[@Jennifer-bc1yg]

Thanks for pointing out that people reused older garments as long as they served the purpose, like the corset. It’s the one thing I dislike when I see reenactments like yours. People act like only brand new items were used.

[@catherinefogle1994]

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[@LemonyLightSkinnChic]

Exactly! I still have my long evening night gown from 1994. And I still use it!

[@kirstenpaff8946]

Considering most clothing was custom made in the 1840s, I think it is very plausible that some women were still wearing older styles of corsetry. The corset makers would still know how to make the styles from a few years ago and there were bound to be customers who found the old styles more comfortable or flattering, or just found that they worked better with the clothes they had.

[@RuailleBuaille]

Ooh, that corset is fascinating with the fan lacing! Does anyone recall what video it appeared in before? What an interesting design! The subtitles are great - love the little annotations that just mention ambient noises (fabric rustling, birdsong). Very charming and helpful :)

[@priorattire]

I used it on the dressing up the 1830 amazone

[@RuailleBuaille]

​@@priorattire Oh thanks, I'll hop over there right after this. Wonderful video as always!

[@simonwaldock9689]

With regards to the white underlinen, my wife's great grand-mother in the last few decades of the 19th century acted as midwife as well as washerwoman. She maintained a "whites bag" of clothes donated or sewed by wealthier women for the poorest, who had only one nightgown and could not afford baby clothes. My wife still has some of these items and I wonder if some of the period garments now available have come from similar sources. I thought you might be interested in this little piece of social history.

[@rebeccalockhart5244]

You always look beautiful in most if not all the clothes that you have made.😊

[@LeesaDeAndrea]

I thought the sash was black until I saw it in the daylight. Lovely dark green.

[@bummblebee77]

the differences: purple umbrella instead of green, sometimes you're wearing a collar and sometimes not, you went from green socks to white.

[@MadamoftheCatHouse]

The colour looks much better outside in the daylight than indoors.

[@twobluestripes]

It’s wild to me that you can find new old stock from early Victorian times! So cool

[@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo]

What a gorgeous dress. Yellow is such an under rated colour.

[@melaniecronn3812]

It's lovely, so much brighter outside. U can really see that gorgeous yellow color

[@myriamickx7969]

The corset’s fan lacing is quite a nice trick. Very convenient!

[@suem6004]

Lovely dress. I normally do 1840s. I wish to give your pattern a try when your book comes out

[@tictactoe325]

What an incredible amount of sewing detail in this dress. That’s miles and miles of ruffles and hours and hours of sewing. Love the fan lacing on the corset.

[@nytekeeper6861]

Stunning, as always. After all of that work, who would still have enough energy to go on the actual walk? LOL!

[@wwaxwork]

So many ruffles! I love it.

[@floridaflamingogirl3119]

A very prim and flattering outfit...the way it fastens neatly at the front puffs out the chest in a handsome way (those folds!!), and the snug black bow around the waist really brings together the sleek look. The frills and fitted shape look incredible!!

[@rainsofhealing]

Thoroughly enjoyed this video, the yellow is gorgeous, a living 🌼 daffodil!

[@Pharaoh_Tutankhamen]

the 1840s is the middle child of the victorian era

[@priorattire]

It is the beginning of the Victorian era ( starts in 1837)- middle Victorian is usually 50-60s

[@sarahgoldberg6614]

​@priorattire I think the commenter means that this decade tends to be forgotten

[@dot8605]

That corset is ingenious! The dress is pure spring! Thank you for sharing. It's always a great pleasure to watch your videos.

[@type2280303]

This is again an absolutely stunning dress Izabella !! Really love it and thank you again for showing us and explaining.

[@tildisrabarberblad9816]

That gown is one of your best🌟 So very pretty! I'm also jealous that you have spring

[@billiejomcmillan7632]

The dress is beautiful- with and without the lacy collar! You are so lovely and talented. Thanks for another great video!

[@samanthaknudson3084]

Spot the difference... Some of the shots have the collar. It always amazes me how you dress yourself and can do so much of the fastenings in back. Beautiful!

[@shevaunhandley1543]

Not to mention different stockings and the front of the dress is closed properly 😂

[@tessat338]

People who quibble about the decade for corsetry forget several things. 1. If something fit and was comfortable, a person keeps wearing it. I'm sure that I have underclothes that have lasted longer than a decade. Did we all throw out all of our old bras when the Wonder Bra was introduced? 2. There was a HUGE market for used clothing. 3. Then as now, hand-me-downs were a thing.

[@Creative_B]

I didn’t realize you had a shoulder problem or an operation. I’m glad it worked out.

[@sallawaronen3277]

That corset is absolutely brilliant!😊

[@lizturner267]

So nice to get a touch of the incredible process that goes into the actual dressmaking. Another great video. 😊

[@KatCutsDown]

I love that corset. It looks like it would be so much easier to get into on your own.

[@MiljaHahto]

I think I'd like a corset like that for every day use.

[@maggiebrinkley4760]

Gorgeous! I love the sound of the fabric as you move about!

[@Aurynn.0876]

I live 5 mins away from this location and my initials are RB, I think I was destined to find this video! The world is full of marvellous coincidences. What a gorgeous dress, thank you so much for this video!

[@sophieinspired]

I love the sleeve decoration 💖 the entire dress is yellow fabulousness

[@rgvtexas8391]

A machine that makes ruffles, wow!!

[@petapendlebury9024]

You can still buy feet like these. They were ingenious - buttonhole, zigzag, pintuck, hemming, bias, piping, etc - there were so many feet to turn your straight stitch sewing machine into a awesome machine. And there's lots of yt videos showing them in action if you're interested.

[@meacadwell]

I love my ruffler foot - it makes it go so much faster.

[@djahant]

You are so good at this. It is art in my mind. It looks spectacular!

[@susanpolastaples9688]

All you need is a matching parasol for your walk, although the lavender one is nice.

[@syedmazharhasan6803]

This is so Dickensian! I loved it 😍

[@sarahludwig9080]

So cute. Love 40s and 50s. It s fun to watch.

[@ryanhilliard1620]

This really feels like time travel.😊

[@jillherringshaw6647]

I’m so glad your shoulder is better now! I can now understand why ladies maids were almost necessary for getting dressed! Your work is just astonishingly beautiful.

[@Danigirl73]

I love your videos, so informative. You are so very talented. Thank you for sharing all these beautiful fashions with us ❤️

[@pierrefireball2505]

Amazingly beautiful dress. You are incredibly talented. You do know how long when making yards and yards of ruffles may take. I have a funny story to tell you, I made a dress very similar to yours for a friend of mine, but she wanted a matching cape to wear, granted it was a week before December, so I did the cape with again yards and more yards of ruffles. We went to the party fabulous everyone loved it. She did take the cape off at some point. When it is time to leave, we go back in the car, and exactly when we came in she is sitting alone in the backseat, not to damage or prevent me from driving with all of that immense dress sitting next to me. So I help to sit down, and she drops one of her gloves, so she opens the door, grabs the glove, sits back close the door. I just start to drive about a few feet, and I hear a freakish scream... MY CAPE.... The cape was partly outside and got caught under the right tire and destroying half of the cape into the street and my tire. She was crying her eyes out, I was stunned, and I did not know if I should laugh or cry myself. She wore the dress again, I refused to buy more yards of silk to redo the darn Cape.

[@Δ-Δ-Δ-Δ]

This is actually a very funny story.

[@angelapatscheider5538]

Ahhh! Before the "event" of sewing machines, all this ruffke-work was done by hand ! Headache just for thinking....😬

[@MaryBethPetra]

I’m glad you’re healing from your shoulder operation. Frozen shoulders are extremely painful and take quite a time to recover.

[@siwsanpackard1140]

Love the rustle. Beautiful

[@sekhmetsaes]

We decided the lace collar looked good too? I think so! :)

[@lissi6931]

Love the ruffles and the belt or sash. ❤

[@KateandBree]

Have you ridden in you fan laced 1830s/1840s corset? The fan lacing just seems so much easier than the traditional corset lacing. It may be yellow, but it looks great on you! I love the edit in that said "I forgot my pantalettes." I laughed out loud.

[@priorattire]

Yes- check the 1830 amazone video

[@kimhaas7586]

It looks like a dressmaker’s dream. But this particular couple of decades had the most unflattering fashions. You look pretty good in just about anything you make but even this one is challenging.

[@Ksweetpea]

I definitely agree about 1830-1845-ish fashions. I think this one could look better if the skirt wasn't so ruffled. "Daffodil dress" does make me smile, though

[@mastersnet18]

Oh I disagree this is one of my favorite eras in fashion. Very feminine.

[@susannabearzi5953]

Did Miss Jane Eyre look this way when she met Mr Rochester? Greetings from Italy!

[@Haghenveien]

@@mastersnet18 It's one of my favourite eras too. More forties, than thirties.. 1830s were more like the 1980s, all crazy and over the top, whereas, 1840s were like the 1990s, more simple and plain. Which I prefer, since I'm an introvert. Also I like that it's feminine as you say but it shows a more natural feminine figure, at least to some extension, in comparisson to later decades that play more on an idealized idea of the feminine figure that result in the use of more body shapping corsets (even without thightlacing)and a more intense use of padding and other contraptions to achieve that ideal. And yes that things are much better than actually changing our bodies as we do nowadays with surgeries and such but still puts there the idea that our bodies need fit in certain moulds. I hope I was able to explain myself, English isn't my first language

[@kimhaas7586]

@@Haghenveien You explained yourself perfectly. It’s just a matter of taste. I don’t like this silhouette and the rows of ruffles and lace trim can’t make that look different. But to each her own.

[@donnarouse5366]

The fabric rustled like my favorite taffeta. I know you said silk, and I had worked in a fabric store very nice job

[@debbralehrman5957]

You do such a wonderful job on you videos. Showing and sharing so much information. Thank you for another enjoyable one.

[@queenswillrule]

Love the fan lacing! It creates a quite delicate design in the back. As always, as one catches up, enjoying your channel very much. Don't do human-sized clothes, just for collector resin dolls, but knowing the understructure and its importance to the silhouette is important, so the information is just so helpful.

[@sans-seraph]

As an RB, I would love to see that monogram.

[@ItsJustLisa]

I loved the “spot the difference” graphic. 1. Collar on, collar off 2. Tied/untied bonnet 3. You changed your socks! That one amused me. I’m curious, did milliners attach fabric decor to bonnets so that it could be changed to match the customer’s dresses? Was it lightly tacked in place so it could be swapped out with different ribbon trim?

[@lilymarleensblurofcolor3273]

She also changed the umbrella to a purple one.

[@meacadwell]

Milliners generally just tacked on the bonnet decor knowing fully well the owners would swap it out for other decoration. It was an inexpensive way to change up the look of the bonnet without the need to purchse another. That being said, middle and upper class women would have more than one bonnet. At least one worn daily and one for church or special occasions.

[@TheGabygael]

I'm not against using sturdy antique chemises if both the fabric and the stitches are sturdy enough to sustain another few years you won't stain the fabric in a way they would have stained it in the past, and you're not at risk of pulling any thread and tearing the fabric because it is concealed under all of the structure and outer layers

[@nmd1211]

What a pretty dress! Also enjoyed seeing the sewing at the end, with the gathering foot and piping foot, as well as overlocked edges for the ruffles. What a nuisance if you had done it all by hand. Your videos are often the high point of my YT viewing.

[@fairlyvague82]

Gorgeous colour! 🌼 💛 🌼 💛 🌼

[@josephinedykstra3383]

Such a pretty dress- you look as though you've stepped out of Cranford!

[@XxAmirahdaCringeyrand0mxX]

I LOVE THE 1840s

[@haroldrupert4957]

Thanks for sharing this great video . Well done ! You look gorgeous ❤❤

[@naddalena]

Every time I see your video I admire grace and style, and in the same time I’m so happy for jeans and t shirts 😂

[@heavymetaljess_]

Man, I think every creator knows that moment where you see how much of the ruffle has been hemmed so far, but then you look back and realize you're not even close to half way. LOL

[@dannywarhurst7169]

Love your videos, absolutely amazing!

[@remeiagullessimo1586]

What an interesting corset!

[@theresajerger3335]

The difference is you started with dark hose and ended with white. Thanks for a great video ❤

[@greygamertales1293]

I love the beautiful dresses.

[@trenae77]

I wonder - would the fan lacing work on later-model corsets? That's a very handy development~

[@priorattire]

Yes but no need once you have a split busk

[@Ithilwen22]

This actually made me wonder what people with joint issues or arthritis or other mobility problems did during the corset era. Did they have to make their corsets differently in order to be able to use them? (Barring being rich enough to have a maid to do it for them!)

[@priorattire]

Not many people lived alone- if not rich enough for servants ( and even middle class could usually afford a maid ) you had family and friends to help.

[@pinstripesuitandheels]

The dress is amazing, and you look wonderful! The pleats in the front, that can be undone for pregnancy (or Christmas dinner 😉) seem very useful. Were there also special pregnancy corsets?

[@Florencetrg]

Yes, pregnancy corsets existed, we still have extants. Basically they also had additional lacing on both sides of the bottom front and could accomodate an expanding belly

[@pinstripesuitandheels]

@@Florencetrg thank you for your answer. I imagined there would be extra lacing on the front.

[@josephnebeker7976]

So, I haven't been a complete stranger to corsetry throughout my life, and I'm in my 50s, but somehow I have avoided noticing the fan lacing corset. Even recently when I've been researching corsets and how to build them for a Victorian outfit for my daughter, I did not discover fan corsets until watching this video. After doing a very simple search online I realize they're all over the place. How did I miss them??? Thank you.

[@bummblebee77]

I really enjoyed watching some of the sewing process. I would love to see more at the end of your videos. Do you have any videos of dresses from the Jane Austen era? I think that is the 1820's.

[@mastersnet18]

I would love to see an 1820’s outfit! It’s so rare to find a video of it.

[@priorattire]

Yes I have 1790 and 1810 and 1815 videos oit I think. More sewing information wil be in the bool

[@theretiredbartender88]

I would have a panic attack if I had to dress like this. I love the clothing and commitment, the workmanship and history so much though.

[@ColFlustered]

I get so much anxiety watching her get "stuck" in the beginning stages of putting the dress on. But i still wanna try it. 😂

[@glittery_cucumber]

Glad I’m not the only one, makes me feel claustrophobic

[@mimzyc9949]

Definitely a daffodil dress

[@Muck006]

One question: *_How did "handbags" vs. "pockets/slits through the dress for the bag underneath" develop/change over time?_* One of the reasons for women to wear pants these days is that they have pockets ... but skirts/dresses had that in the past too, so when did women's fashion switch to "external" (and thus impractical) pockets? The wide victorian style seems to be made for slit-pockets ...

[@walking-the-flower-path]

I believe Abby Cox did a splendid video on this, very informative.

[@christafranken9170]

​@@walking-the-flower-path Yes, she did. Highly recommend

[@meacadwell]

In short, women's skirts were voluminous until the Regency era when they became higher-waisted, slimmer and more sheer - any under pockets would be seen so women started using reticules to keep the slim line look in their dresses.

[@claudinecorcho7070]

Very pretty!

[@charlisutton2137]

Difference-you put the collar on in the walk :)

[@ItsJustLisa]

Did you notice the change of socks? The first ones were green. She also untied her bonnet.

[@kyradavis7130]

You make me think of Jane Eyre

[@MixolydianMode]

Most interesting videos!

[@hannahcooley770]

Where did you get that style of corset? 😁 my fifteen year old daughter and I have been inspired by you to make a ball gown for her sweet sixteen.

[@priorattire]

I made it….

[@kellybryson7754]

My Lord! I am so fat and out of shape, I would need to be rich so I could have someone else dress me!

[@monjiaitaly]

Beautiful.

[@HollyHummingbirdriver]

Always love your videos! What a lovely dress and cheerful color! Are you by any chance Finnish?

[@priorattire]

Nope. Mutta rakastan Suomea!

[@valente1340]

Eu me divirto assistindo você 😀

[@christyb2912]

You need a lady's maid! 🙂

[@syedmazharhasan6803]

She just proved that she does not need to 😊

[@Wakeupgrandowl]

That’s my initials :)

[@tamarab.7151]

the waist of the picture is very small

[@Olga_Ovechkina]

Fashion magazines have always depicted an exaggerated ideal.

[@bcaye]

These days we call it Photoshop.

[@priorattire]

Encause it is a drawn picture. In reality people have waist bigger than their necks…

[@therealJamieJoy]

Yes, it's a drawing. Not an actual human being.

[@AnniCarlsson]

Illitions and then old way of Photoshop. And åaintings are likw make it the shape you want.

[@beccyoliver9590]

I'm an RB!

[@lasteniaortiz707]

Este año estamos jodidos

[@anakalinarochaurtigadonasc8525]

Quando vermos o resutado final é bonito, mas o que está por baixo é super feio. Pouco prático.

[@priorattire]

Lol.

[@basraabdulle3526]

oooh it was very painful to watch just to dress up for a morning walk but in end, it looks not too comfortable I like the modesty and covering up as women we should always cover up more for our respective body and our name even though it was a kind struggle to just wear something will take all those time and when she wants to go to be at night time she has to undo all this sweating work other than I thought it looks natural and beautiful well done good job

[@priorattire]

lol, takes about 5 minutes to get dressed without talking. No discomfort

[@Herr_Flick_of_ze_Gestapo]

a woman, when changing into another dress for the evening, would not have changed all her underpinnings. just the outer layers.