![]() While women were spinners and mantua makers, men were tailors and there’s a beautiful sketch by Louis-Philippe Boitard of 11 tailors sitting cross-legged on a bench next to a window (that work needed light) while a gentleman is measured at the front of the shop for a frock coat. Loosening or discarding your stays, as in Hogarth’s Rake’s Progress, was an obvious sign of moral dissolution. It was made of finely stitched whale cartilage, less unforgiving than the steel-clad corsets of the Victorians. The most captivating piece was the stays, a wonderfully worked underpinning which, like a corset, held a woman’s figure in and pushed up the bust. Reuse, recycle? The Georgians, like their predecessors, didn’t need telling. Another theme here is that dress was designed to be adaptable the material was so expensive, it had to be repurposed as fashions and figures changed. Nearby, there’s an equally dainty pair of man’s breeches, showing exquisite workmanship: a finely executed darn in the leg and a ribbon at the back for letting the waist out. Find high-quality stock photos that you wont find anywhere else. It would be impossible to wear it without carrying yourself differently. Search from Woman Fashion Sketch stock photos, pictures and royalty-free images from iStock. I felt like a heffalump as I contemplated the most exquisite piece (from the V&A), a heavenly sacque dress made from Chinese silk for Eva Maria Veigel, a petite woman, as wide as it was long, with embroidered fabric and a richly decorated train. People were smaller then: dainty and dignified. Most of the exhibition is given to portraits but the costumes and artefacts are fascinating too. ‘St James’s Park and the Mall’, c.1745, British school FREE TUTORIALS: bit. Indeed one of the themes of the exhibition is how the upper classes slowly appropriated the style of the lower orders – if less dramatically than Marie Antoinette in shepherdess mode. Womens Vector Illustrator Fashion Flats featuring fashion design templates, sketches and patterns for Fashion Designers Successful Fashion Designer Use these sketch templates and fashion flats to create fashion design drawings. Something similar happened with men’s dress: when you see the portrait of Lord Byron in actual trousers (previously a sailors’ or boys’ thing) in 1807, you feel a transformation under way. Here cotton, a fabric inexorably associated with slavery, tells a larger story. The change resembles what happened in dress after the Great War: bye-bye Edwardian hourglass, hello flapper. ![]() Compare the flounces and silk of a portrait of Queen Caroline in 1771 with the simple classical white muslin cotton of Princess Sophia in 1796 and you find nothing less than a revolution. The point that this exhibition makes is that costume spoke volumes about society, particularly in the long 18th century, over the course of the reigns (and regency) of the four Georges. But quite often you’re thinking, ‘Ooh, what a lovely frock.’ Or, ‘Fabulous breeches!’ Here it’s the costumes that take centre stage. But if you want to check out the website, it's here AtelierJolie.Normally, when you look at portraits you feel obliged to focus on the sitter. So far, we've not been given much more information. She promises that designs produced under the Atelier Jolie umbrella will be made exclusively from leftover, vintage and deadstock fabrics and the company will also encourage people to upcycle and repair things that they already have in their wardrobes. There is, as you probably suspected, as sustainability element to the venture too. ![]() And yet, these makers rarely receive the credit and respect they deserve.' ![]() 'Designers often sketch or approve designs, but it is the tailors who make the difference and who I truly love creating with. I’ve designed clothes and learned about shapes with many of the best tailors. 'Fashion is an art I’ve had the opportunity to play with over the years. 'I am building a place for creative people to collaborate with a skilled and diverse family of expert tailors and artisans from around the world. According to a statement released by Jolie herself: ![]()
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