Showing posts with label Cream Robe a l'Anglaise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cream Robe a l'Anglaise. Show all posts

Friday, September 23, 2011

Wrinkles happen. So a few notes on wrinkles and bunching.

Recently, I made a reproduction of a dress from the Kyoto Costume Institute. I was pretty pleased with it, but the wrinkles on the bodice were driving me crazy!

Robe a l'anglaise, England, 1790's. KCI.





But then today I was browsing some paintings, and I started noticing that so many of them show ladies  with wrinkly bodices. Take a peak below: