I just love the way you talk about the characters in your books! ❤️

If I collapsed and then woke up in that house finding you two hovering over me - I would think that I died and woke up in an awesome Heaven. You all are awesome.

Please do a video on your laundry routine. 💕

@cecilyerker

4 жыл бұрын

Hand wash with soap or washing powder, line dry. Maybe she has a clothes wringer. You can’t wash antique clothing, water and agitation will destroy it. You can very strategically spot dry clean and steam an antique garment for display.

I love leg-of-mutton sleeves, they’re the 80s shoulder pads of the Victorian era.

Women are indeed elegant in the previous centuries. My husband and I discussed about moving to Moldova to live a vintage lifestyle. Countryside people there still ride horses for short distance travelling and men still wear suspenders with baguette hat while women still wear saràfān & platok(handkerchief covering the head).

You had me at "not alot of measuring is necessary". Lol Going to have to grab a pattern! I have weird body measurements that never seem to match up well with standard patterns. While there are ways around that, I know, it's still frustrating!

@taraelizabethdensley9475

Жыл бұрын

I'm not sure i could find an easy to follow pattern as i'm a bit tubby

Praise the Lord for another great Victorian video!

I love watching these kind of videos. I learn more about every day stuff. I learnt more than l did in history lessons at school.

Oh my word, hello darling kindred spirit. I've just discovered you. There are BOOKS!!!!!

i love how you are always smiling lol

It's so fun to learn about the past and how people did things.

It's really cool that you make your own clothes, I wish in the future I would know to how to make my own clothes too, and i love the Victorian dresses and I'll ask my mother to help me start making clothes. I love and make more of your vids! If you can Sarah, can you make videos of sowing pls

I knew you and your husband on a documentary an l loved you and now that l found out that you have a chanel l am speechless.. I also dress like a victorian teen(l am 15) and l also have a victorian room and toys like the calideioscope(don't know if l spell it roght😅). I just can say that you are amazing. Greetings from spain, Lina Pd: you got a new subscriber

The pleating-technique with the stripes is a very common one from German / Austrian /Swiss traditional garments (also found in modern Dirndl). It is called "Stifteln". If your fabric is not striped or checked, you use a piece of "Stiftel-Karo" (a cheap, thin facbric with a small checked pattern) and sew or pin it to the area that shall be pleated. Then you use the checks to get perfectly even stitches for the pleating (using checks you get both, horizontally and vertically equal distances). Unfortunately I could not find out since when this exact technique was used. There are "Spencers" (jackets) and skirts from the late 18th / early 19th century that use their striped patterns for pleating like the dress in the video.... Love your books and videos, btw!

@Hope-un5wv

3 жыл бұрын

I use a fork.

Really Sarah chrismen you are an amazing youtuber😊😊😊

I love these. Thank you! I’m a welder and would love too see your husband’s workshop in more detail. Curious about your garden too.

I wonder if that's where the phrase 'cheap and cheerful' comes from?

You should put the link to your Amazon book in the description to encourage people to click on it. You should also put the link to the reproduction fabrics as well 😄 great video

This is why I love your channel and videos so much is because every time you are on it's an education for me. I just adore your channel and what you share with us all.

I see the nineteen century every where ! Seeing your videos, I never imagined that could be possible live in your world ! Congratulations for achieving the level of accuracy in everything ! Is amazing. Thanks again

I've listened tot he audiobooks of this Victorian Life and Victorian Secrets myself - and I have the copy of Mrs. Beeton's guide to Household Management you wrote a forward to. I figured the abridge version would be easier to swallow, haha! I look forward to reading true lady's and proper gentleman. Currently I'm making an 1890's shirtwaist in a really nice striped cotton shirting - decided to hand sew it because my antique treadle machine (1919) has such a learning curve when my legs are so long, and my electric machine hates me right now. I love the Victorian Era and this information is so interesting to me, and I also like to make the clothes from the era - thus far I've made combinations, a chemise, a petticoat (tucks are my bain in sewing, I will take pleats any day over tucks!), a corset (an 1880's pattern that I've changed the top edge to be a bit higher like the 1890's - straight busk not spoon busk), and a walking skirt. Slowly adding more to the outfit here. After my shirtwaist I plan to make another skirt using and 1895 Tailoring guide for women which I look forward to.

Hello Sarah! It is nice to see that you are keeping busy making videos during lock down! I really enjoyed this video, and learned a lot about the types of dresses that Victorian women wore for casual, and for work. I love the wrappers that you showed us in your video! They may be all the same pattern, but the different fabrics make each wrapper look different. My great Grandmother probably wore something like the wrapper you showed us. I was just wondering if American women could order anything from EATON's? I know it was an English/Canadian store, but...? I especially liked the striped work dress that you had in your cedar trunk! Imagine the woman coming up with the idea to sew every other stripe to pleat her skirt! Amazing! Like you said, pleating is very tedious! I've done it, and have been overjoyed when it was finished! Stay healthy, stay busy, and be safe! ~Janet in Canada

What a great video! I'm sewing a work dress at the moment, and I think instead of pleating and tedium, I'll use that genius gathering method instead.

I could listen to you all day! The stuff you show and tell us ist sooo interesting. And you have such a lovely smile and positive energy. I'm so curious about your books, I'll buy them soon.

Greetings from Sweden! Keep making your videos! They are entertaining and educational both at the same time. Have you ever considered vlog style videos? It would be so much fun to see a bit of your daily routines.

Hi Sarah I was wondering if you could make a video about you making your own dresses and tell us how you learned to sew? Its a dream of mine to learn how to sew on a traditional singer sewing machine :) Thank you again for your wonderful videos I enjoy watching very much! Cant wait to read all your books also!

I love this video Sarah, because you are so sweet and 19th century fashion is my favorite. I have asked a lost of times where did you buy your fabrics, so... thank you for sharing it!

I would love to see your full wardrobe. I really enjoy your videos

Very informative, thank you!

Hi Sarah, I love this video and the dresses you showed us. I hope you are both well and I wish you Happy Easter 😉

I love tiger tape for cartridge pleating non-striped fabric- it’s a paper tape that has stripes on it, and you use that instead of having f to measure before you put in your gathering threads- and because you have that lovely even stripe, you’re alway able to get your gathering threads exactly the same Highly recommend.

Interesting video, thanks. I prefer the style of everyday outfits, as I am not one for lots of extra details and embellishments.

Finally I found yours channel! Thank you so much for your great work!

Can you make a house tour video I really want to see please. I love you guys ❤️❤️❤️❤️

At the end of the video when you talk about how the women who made the stripe dress how she made her pleating for the dress.....thats exactly how my grandmother did pleating who was born in the early 1900s. She learn from her mother, and my mom taught me the same when I first started to sew.

This is FASCINATING!!! Thank you 😊

Loved this video! More clothing history please

I'm delighted to have found your charming new videos. Until I found your site, I thought I might be unique in wanting to live as though I actually was a Victorian. I lack your courage to do so publicly, but since the age of 18, when I entered my first antique shop, I've been collecting Victorian furniture, books and clothing in an effort to create a Victorian world within my own four walls. I find these items strangely familiar and comforting, all the more so because I grew up with midcentury modern furnishings and acid colors! Please continue being a curator of the Victorian era. I look forward to your upcoming videos.

@tymanung6382

Жыл бұрын

1) Some other youtube dressmakers/seamstresses/costumers have videos on experiments while wearing Edwardian, late Victorian, Medieval, etc. clothes that they made. 2) In US, there, are many US Civil War re enactment events, but later Victorian (= US gilded age) seems less popular and not organized ? This is in contrast to English Regency (= US Federal = French Empire = German Austrian early Biedermeier = some S American Inde pendence) era (s), with US JASNA and UK s Jane A Austen Society, for example.

That dress is so beautiful like oh my God 😍

Great video, learned so much. Thank You!!!

This is SO helpful for a fellow writer!!! Love and admire your thorough research!

You are so cute! Love your content, your work and your passion! I simply admire you! Keep up the good work!💗

Thank you for another wonderful video! I am looking forward to seeing a similar video about your bicycling clothes. They are beautiful, as is this collection.

I just ordered my first book!

Sarah- please do a video on linens! I would love to see your take on household linens in the 19thc. 💖

That was so interesting, thank you so much!!!

Now I like to try some of them on 😊

Really interesting video! I remember seeing a ghost of my Great-great Grandmother Alice a few times, and she wore a dress similar to yours (of course, she was around during that time.) You pretty much remind me of her, except you don't have a corn-cob pipe. As for pleating, I've seen my Mom do that while making ribbon shirts and other Native American regalia. She says the same thing, it's tedious.

Interesting as usual. Such beautiful garments, you should reproduce and sell those patterns you made. I would definitely be interested. Those pleats! Wonderful technique, going to try that myself. 😅Thank you for your lovely videos💜

@ruthgoebel723

4 жыл бұрын

Oh do! It would be nice to have a pattern to go by. I love sewing dresses from various periods. I normally wear dresses every day and my patten can be tweaked for various time periods, but to sew one without tweaking would be a dream!

Would you ever consider making a video with another KZreadr who shares your enthusiasm for historical dress from the Victorian era?

@cecilyerker

4 жыл бұрын

F-zero91maru What’s so outlandish about my question? There are KZreadrs who make videos on the medieval era which spans from the 5th to the 15th century.

I loved your description of "one size fits all" victorian wear. Do you have any recommendations for wrap patterns? A lot of what's available is for fancy, fitted garments but I'd like something more approachable and practical for a novice sewist.

I recently bought an antique Victorian washing bowl and jug, and use it every day to wash myself. It feels somehow wonderful that this jug maybe hasn't been used the way it was made to be for maybe over a hundred years, and now I am using it again. It feels as though, if washing jugs and bowls had souls, they'd be so happy and doing dances of joy to be used again. My goal is to do what you are doing, living in a home surrounded by Victorian everything. What was the first Victorian thing you bought, and when did you discover you wanted to make your home period accurate and dress that way too?

@Victorianlady

2 ай бұрын

It's all in my books, "Victorian Secrets" and "This Victorian Life." Happy reading. :)

@JixieDyeAuthor

2 ай бұрын

@@Victorianlady Hahaha your book is hilarious! Realised that your birthday is on or near my own birthday. Your adventures are so funny!

Beautiful 👏👏👏👏

What a lovely video! Will you also do a video on how people in victorian times store their clothes?

Could you do a video on how to sew gathers by hand? I've only ever done it on a sewing machine but that was years ago. I've decided to sew by hand instead but when I tried doing gathers before, they turned out more like pleats.

I would love to learn more I have always loved other time periods just hate the time I'm in

Have you made a video on different victorian hairstyles?

Wow !!!!

I wish I could be like you

Hi, Sarah! I had a very educational morning, as I listened to your videos while doing my chores. :) I bought a new sewing machine recently and hope to experiment with making a few Victorian Era dresses/skirts. You mentioned that you created a pattern from an 1800s wrapper in your collection. Do you have any suggestions on where I could find the pattern either online or in book form? Thank you again for all of your videos, they are fun to watch! Rose

What is that last dress you showed made of, M'am? I, too, am looking into the "Lower" ...Working Class Garments of Historical Clothing. At the moment, however, I've decided to begin my journey in Colonial America...then work my way forward.

This is amazing! Where did you find the instrumental of Arrah Wanna?!

I would like to make one of those working gowns. the last one u showed. I did go to fashion design school so I can sew etc... so I was wondering, do u sell ur patterns by any chance. or even small copies of ur patterns that can b used as references.?? cuz if so, I would love to buy it off u. I love antiques and the Victorian era but all my books r for fancy items. and I would love to have a pattern for a working lady's gown so I can make it. thank u. and i just subbed cuz I just found ur wonderful channel

I love victorian clothes!Where do you buy yours Sarah?

Hello I do long skirts so I get the pleating thing

@Sarah Chrisman where do you get the pattern for you dresses. The style of your dresses are very pretty & do you sew all your own?

Would you be able to share a pattern of the wrapper dress? I would love to purchase it!

Does anybody know where to find a pattern for the house dress?

What kind of fabric was the striped work dress made out off? I'm looking for a sturdy dress idea for working outside! :-D

What r the measurements of the hard working gown? And how much would I have to pay to get a pattern copy lol

Hello Sarah do you got a video about lighting you room? We have a oil lamp and ours smells enormous bad.

@JB-vd8bi

3 жыл бұрын

What oil are you using?

Is there a pattern for this somewhere? Anywhere?

would you be willing to sell a copy of your pattern that you made for many of your dresses and your work dress.? I absolutely love your dresses and very much want to make some for myself and my friend who likes long dresses.

Are there posts covering the chatelaine you wear?

@Victorianlady

3 жыл бұрын

Chatelaine: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aI2Xs5l-mrm9qNY.html Chatelaine bags & belts: kzread.info/dash/bejne/g2dkqaiDgtatc7A.html Gabriel making my chatelaine belt: kzread.info/dash/bejne/rJhoyKZ_kdHfhqg.html

@kimberlybusby5632

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for responding! It was most informative and entertaining!

When a man sees a woman wearing clothes like that it make him adore her. She looks like a real woman to be proud of. We want to respect her and open the door for her.

Hi there, you might like to know that part of your video features in this Goodrow Productions non-commercial film of A Christmas Carol (kzread.info/dash/bejne/hqamlZmIm8TaYJs.html). Thanks so much. Your film features at 2min 14seconds.

What would a woman wear if she were a carrage operator?

Shouldn't you be wrapping the vintage pieces in acid free tissue paper? I always recommend handling such old pieces with tender loving care!

What about proper Victorian shoes?

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