I love all the practicality in Victorian clothing

@donnajohnson3334

6 ай бұрын

I have seen the full bodice called a Pidgeon Breast. I spoke to a woman who had a picture of her Mom in a dress like hers. Pretty !.

@samoneh.117

6 ай бұрын

The pintacks(?) Are genius.

@gildahendricks4398

6 ай бұрын

Me toooo!!!😊

@omaimaf9963

5 ай бұрын

Fast fashion killed practical clothing, no need for clothes to be versatile if they won’t last a long time anyway.

@marvwatkins7029

5 ай бұрын

Not that practical at all for women. Too much.

I thought pintucks was just meant for designs and structure, but it’s so clever that they can be taken out as the child grows.

@RealTeaChick

6 ай бұрын

It's funny how human society changes so much that we forget why things were the way they were in the first place.

@thethomp0304

6 ай бұрын

⁷⁸7⁷ū​@@RealTeaChick

@peregrineelea2686

6 ай бұрын

same!! mind blown

@Yeyee23

6 ай бұрын

This kind of tailoring should make a comeback

@taradid409

5 ай бұрын

I did ask a question about but I doubt anybody will answer it if you take the pintuckd out it will be a different color because the fabric will be brighter because it was hidden. Do they hide the fact that it's a different color by covering it with ribbons or lacing or something else or do they ignore it?

Ok Anne of green gables I see you 😍😍😍

@HeidiGraham1982

6 ай бұрын

I was JUST thinking Anne of Green Gables! 😂

@Thessair

5 ай бұрын

​@@HeidiGraham1982Me, too! 😂

@ViolettaD1485

5 ай бұрын

And Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.

@ghostly_rose8925

3 ай бұрын

I was just about to comment this

@Mari_20243

3 ай бұрын

Yeah I was thinking about Anne ❤❤❤!

The fact that children’s clothing no longer has pintucks, even in some of the clothes, actually makes me mad because brands will literally make children’s clothing cheaper with the excuse that the child will grow out of them too fast for them to last. I wonder how much clothing in our landfills are children’s clothing. 😑

@taradid409

5 ай бұрын

There is enough clothing in landfills around the world to close people for 100 years is the statistics I've heard recently on a several KZread channels and in articles I've read. Enough clothing to close the world for a 100 years. Sad.

I had no idea those stitches were to be taken out so the clothing grew with the child! I thought they were just decorative lol. I love that! I wish kids clothes were still made that way today.

@fionagrant4317

6 ай бұрын

This is super specific, but most of the children's coats at Target have stitching in the sleeves meant to be taken out if the kid had a growth spurt mid winter!

@tink6225

6 ай бұрын

@@fionagrant4317never knew that

@Rumade

6 ай бұрын

There are a couple of baby wear companies that have adjustable sleeves and legs

@taradid409

5 ай бұрын

If you take that kind of stitching out isn't there a color change and how do you hide that?

@fionagrant4317

5 ай бұрын

@@taradid409 couple things! 1. Polyester (what these coats are usually made of) doesn't fade *that* fast. This is so when a child has a growth spurt mid season parents don't have to buy them a new jacket two months after buying this jacket. 2. It's a toddler, most people don't care if there is a slight discoloration on their sleeves 3. If it's that noticeable, you could probably dye it and have it look like a whole new coat.

Those pintucks are super clever!

@donnajohnson3334

6 ай бұрын

My mom did this for my dresses in the 60s and 70s when I saw not another girl dressed like that then. I grew like a weed, so it helped. My school in 8th grade had a dress code. I never got called down for a short skirt. People sometimes asked if I was Amish. I also smelled like fireplace smoke and ham and beans cooked over the fire. Good memories. Dang...now I'm hungry !

My 6 year old is obsessed with a linen dress that i made for her from an old skirt i had. She wears a huge apron over it and it is a fight to get her to give me the dress to wash. Lets just say little house on the prairie really inspired her lol

@RealTeaChick

6 ай бұрын

Have you thought about teaching her how to sew? She might really enjoy it

@crunchycountrycatholic

6 ай бұрын

@@RealTeaChick absolutely. She is working on small projects right now. She hasn't worked up to sewing clothes yet. That will probably be a few more years of practice. She helps me when I make quilts and small stuffed rabbits for friends who are having babies. She is weaving on a lap loom and doing some color coded needlepoint mostly right now. She has been asking to learn crochet too, so we may get her set up with another project soon. My mom started teaching me all of the fiber crafts at her age too. It is really fun to be on the other side of it all now.

@patriciatinkey2677

6 ай бұрын

Good Mama, you!😊

@oldasyouromens

6 ай бұрын

Dresses like that were the absolute most comfortable play clothes for me as a kid - I didn't have to worry about them moving around or exposing way too much at the waist, I could just play and they plus shorts or tights kept me covered. If JoAnns has a good sale, make her several more!

@crunchycountrycatholic

6 ай бұрын

@@oldasyouromensI love hearing that! I did not wear many dresses growing up, but am seeing my kids' joy in their mom made clothes. So I will have to agree with you. She needs more, for sure! we just had a baby on Thanksgiving, so once I'm back in the swing of it, I absolutely will make more. I made matching church clothes for 3 kids and a button down for my husband last year. My girls love it when I make the skirts twirly and with huge pockets. I have a ton of vintage mismatch buttons and let the kids pick their buttons for the outfits.. making clothing for them has been the best adventure. I only started sewing clothes in the last year or two, but have been a quilter since I was 16. If I can encourage anyone else to try sewing, just do it. Find a dress you love, copy it, then start altering to fit your needs. I always aim to use natural fibers. Big thrifted cotton curtains are a great fabric option.

Pinafores should come back in style for people like me who regularly stain their clothes. Yes yes, i know aprons exist but none of them are ever this cute.

@twinkiefaith1311

3 ай бұрын

Make them and wear it anyway!

@ashleijade562

2 ай бұрын

Pinafore aprons and dresses are getting pretty popular in cottage core fashion. Also more common in Japan and Korea at the moment than here in the US, at least on social media. There's some really cute ones online if you look up pinafore or pinafore dress.

"pinafore", derives from "pin the top in the front, afore", originally was pinned to one's blouse. Later, cloth tie strings were used.

I love pin tucks when they work with the design. I have a petticoat that is longer than I wanted, so I plan on adding 1 or 2 more pin tucks to make it more practical for me

Man do I wish clothes grew with the child now! My MIL said her kids pajamas in the 70s/80s had snaps that adjusted the size as they grew. So smart

Such an Anne of Green Gables vibe 💜💜💜

Its giving "The Railway Children" and I love it

@donnajohnson3334

6 ай бұрын

I heard of an elderly man who had ridden that train as a child. He was charged to help care for a baby girl also on the train. She rode in his lap part of the journey. He knew the baby's name, and saw her get adopted. He rode on, and was eventually adopted to help on a farm. Both were treated well. Shocker... they later met and were married very happily....

Thank you for posting this stuff lately! I have a story that I write about a teenager in the 1890s, and this really helps me imagine and describe what the characters would look like 😊

as a kid who does victorian reenactment, this is almost exactly what i wear!

Why did we ever stop making dresses with pockets

@nenabunena

5 ай бұрын

Probably when dresses got shorter and skinnier

@rosethorn0232

3 күн бұрын

​@@nenabunenaAnd companies wanted to skimp on fabric for cheaper production costs.

I study children's fashion from the Victorian period and seeing this makes me so happy!!! They always forget about the kids clothes!!

Reminds me of Anne of Green Gables💚

I'm not sure if you've done this before, but can you talk about swimwear and sleep clothing from some of these time periods? It would be interesting to see!

Reminds me of little house on the prairie or Dr quinn shows and what the kids wore. That fabric is so pretty and delicate.

I love the children’s corset, it’s like a training bra!

That flower pattern is so darling!!💖

Need to bring this back, it’s simple and cute!

@dovie2blue

6 ай бұрын

It's like so anachronistic though... you'd need everyone in the family to be dressed in this era

@junebunny0712

6 ай бұрын

@@dovie2blue Not necessarily?

@ViolettaD1485

5 ай бұрын

It came back for a while with '70s _Little House on the Prairie_ fashions and in the '80s with Laura Ashley. Eventually, the pendulum will swing back.

This is so informative and allows one to see where the cottage core aesthetic is coming from.

I just learned there were special children's corsets and now I am way cooler! Thank you!

How many rows of pintucks were usually applied? I can imagine an enterprising mother making the dress a little loose and then putting in many many tucks so it lasts a long time.

Love the dress especially the shoulder ruffle❤❤❤❤

I like this look. It reminds me of Dorothy, Laura Ingles and the American Girl doll :)

oh my gosh i love the sense of kin i felt when i heard the children’s corset i always mentally compare corsets with bras, and the fact that children had a weaker version took me back to my days of wearing trainer bras when my chest first started growing!

@Swan-rb4yg

6 ай бұрын

Do you know the purpose of the children's corset?

@d.l.a1909

6 ай бұрын

@@Swan-rb4ygto support girls’ growing bodies

@MM-jf1me

5 ай бұрын

​@@Swan-rb4yg The same as a training bra: girls are maturing, but don't require as much structural support in their clothes to keep everything in place.

@deebee.1542

5 ай бұрын

@@MM-jf1me yep! just it’s so amazing how humans end up with the same problems no matter the time period!

I am in middle school and now I want to make a children’s corset😭

This is soooo interesting!! You never see really information about historical children clothing. It’s so cool to learn how they kept up with children’s growing.

The only ‘grow with me’ equivalent we have today is the Oshkosh overalls.

@jgale9023

6 ай бұрын

We should have more grow with me options imo. Maybe there are more and I live under a rock but I’ve not seen it.

@amoureux6502

5 ай бұрын

I used to have shorts that had a sort of built-in belt. They had an elastic band inside each hip with buttonholes to cinch it to the right size, and you could adjust it larger or smaller as needed. I don't know what the style was called but I recall having at least a few pairs, and since they were shorts it wasn't a big deal if they were a little below the knee one year and a little above the knee next year.

Are we not gonna talk about that perfect loop?🤩

I’d love to know more about how they made their aprons so they held up to heavy washing!

You look so cute in that outfit. They really did know how to make kids clothing look cute but it just makes adults look adorable too.

I'm OBSESSED with these kind of clothes

Beautiful fabric/style..not sure if u made it or its authentic...your content is just the BEST🎉

@dovie2blue

6 ай бұрын

She must have made the outfit because vintage children's clothing wouldn't fit her

@brendacostarella9473

6 ай бұрын

@@dovie2blue yes VERY possible...she looks petite!..(actually was referring to all items she talks of and shows)

I would love to see this dress constructed, or a pattern. I so badly want to make one for myself!

For us Swedish viewers, Madicken and Elisabeth wore these! Ida from Junibacken also wore an apron

I used to work in a heirloom shop in New Orleans. We taught people to make heirloom clothing. Most girls dresses had a four inch hem along with the tucks for adjustability. We also taught hand smocking and hand sewing. I bet you would have loved our store.

wow! now i can truly look like a sickly victorian child! thank you

Woah i did not know that those folds had a purpose, to grow the dress along with the child. So simple yet so ingenious!

I bet those little girls were so proud to have a "trainer" corset!❤😊

We need children’s clothing that grows with the child now.

She looked like “Anne with an E” and I love it SOO much!

They were so smart in the past! They _designed_ the dress to grow with the child so they wouldn’t have to buy dresses so frequently. Genius!

I didnt know the pinning was to lengthen the skirt. I thought it was for decoration. Interesting. Ty! ❤❤

Ooooh, I had no idea what a pin tuck was, ingenious... until now. Thank you for the education. 😊

OMG I love sewing so when I will have a child I’m gonna try the pintucks on child clothing it looks so convenient, like before their get to 10yo they grow so fast you spend your life buying new clothes but with that its so economical and green friendly ❤

Those pintucks!❤

Where did you get that fabric! I’m in LOVE 😍

@IonIsFalling7217

6 ай бұрын

Same! The fabric and the pattern!

I want my whole wardrobe made from this rose bud fabric ❤ gorgeous

Beautiful. You won my follow. Greetings from orange county California USA 🇺🇸

Reminds me of Felicity’s tea time dress 💖

I LOVE this, you look like “Anne from Anne with and e”

The shoooeeesss though 😍

I’m salivating over the tailoring 🧵

Anne with an E is what this reminds me of

I would honestly rather wear this than anything else

Nice design ngl

PIN TUCKS ARE BRILLIANT

Classic and country lolitas are drooling)x we love pinafore dresses

it's giving Anne With an E

You look like Anne of Green Gables love this ❤

Sounds like the results reflected a certain practical reality - all lengths are covered, the shorter ones being for the growing kids whose getting taller faster than their previous owner or projected wear time had been, and the droop-down front fit both those with smaller and generous bust sizes, as well as those changing from one to the other during wear time. Clever!

Thank you. I wish more fashion historians (and the like) would talk more about children's fashion.

What was the purpose of the "droopy center front"? (Room to grow?😮)

@amoureux6502

5 ай бұрын

I'm sure it was great for having room to grow but it was also just stylish around the turn of the century.

@antigrace1

5 ай бұрын

@@amoureux6502 Sorry. Guess it was more fashion than function--I remember a lot of dresses had that style. Thanks!😳😁

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES I LOVE THAT MOVIE ❤

Part of the reason for the modern meme of "the Victorians perceived the baring of a lady's ankles as scandalous" was because when a man was seen courting with a women who had bared ankles, the implication was that she was underage.

@MM-jf1me

5 ай бұрын

Makes sense! Thanks for the info.

stunninggg

So beautiful. Wish we still dressed like that.

I wamt a kids corset but for me that spunds like a nice comfy accessory for a top but also bot get in my way

So pretty ❤

That’s actually very cute to me. I see that coming back into fashion in the next 2-3 decades 👀

Omg I love the show Road to Avonlea, and every time I hear the word pinafore, I remember the one scene in like season 6 I wanna say, where Sara was made at Aunt Hetty because she wouldn’t let her purchase a pretty dress instead of a plain pinafore, and later she makes the comment to her friends that “ that’s not what aunt hetty thinks,… ‘this ugly little pinafore has a very big hem, it will last you for years, you can go to college in it be married in it and then you can be buried in it “😂😂😂😂

The pockets!!

That awkward moment when you realize that you have the style of a sickly Victorian child even though you're going for upper-middle-class fashion.

This looks like the same attire Clara O'Day where's in Assassin's Creed syndicate. 🎩

I love the pockets...

IT HAS POCKETS!

I want a Corset! 🎉

😊 I grew up calling them growth tucks.

So cute!

Can you show us an actual children's corset please 🙏... I didn't know that they were a thing that existed... sure I could see/understand a junior corset or training corset for young girls around 11, 12, 13 years of age as something akin to a training bra for young girls just starting to develop their breasts...but for younger children... that's something really new for me, then again given the way they made their clothes I can understand why they would have them.. children's clothes were basically just smaller adult clothing ... toddler and Infants were obviously different. Then again children were treated like small adults for the most part from my understanding of things I've read & watched unless they were children of wealthy people then they had more of a childhood that we're familiar with.. I love your channel ❤

I want to make edwardian teen clothes for summer!

You remind me of Anne of Green Gables in this outfit and pig tails!

ANNE SHIRLEY CUTHBERT OF GREEN GABLES 🥹

@beccagoodrich2911

6 ай бұрын

Anne Shirley Blythe. She never took Matthew & Marilla's name as her own.

This is so Anne with an E!

do you mind sharing your patterns for these? this is exactly the style of dress+pinafore I've been looking to make for a while now

Ol we need cloths that griw with kids.

I love this dress

Inlove the ruffle sleeves and pretty much everything about this outfit. Where are the shoes from?

Fun fact! both girls and boys would wear these dresses!

@greatestaxolotl4933

6 ай бұрын

*until the age of five or so

@donnajohnson3334

6 ай бұрын

Yep ! But it came to a halt when they got school age. Imagine the fellas seeing you in that, lol ! I read a diary by a man whose Mother was very enamored with the book "Little Lord Fauntleroy." There was a fad to dress like that...( think Three Musketeers ! ). He stopped getting any haircuts, slept in rag curlers, and GASP !. A Big package came for him. His Mom had ordered up a fussy ,velvet suit , frilly white starched Deep cuffs & collar. A silk bow tie and a golden silk fringed waist scarf. The breeches were above his knee and he wore silk stockings and soft. Flats called slippers. Each day, he got in fights on his way home from school. Mom would clean and mend the costume until at last, he could no longer fit it. And he was dressed in it daily. He confessed to wearing it hard in dear hopes he would ruin it. He also lost the mullet hardo.

@MM-jf1me

5 ай бұрын

​@@donnajohnson3334 Poor guy lol. Do you recall about how old he was at the time?

If I could dress like this everyday….so lovely!

Okay, Anne Shirley Cuthbert 🥹

looks very "Nellie Olson" from Little House On The Prairie

Anne of Green Gables

Your content is great ❤❤❤ where do you get your patterns from?

Pintucks creative!

You look like Anne of Green Gables! ❤️