Making starchy petticoats...cording, pleats, and starch, oh my!

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How'd they get full skirts in the 1830s? It's all thanks to starched corded and pleated petticoats!
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Making the Bustle - • Giving the Bum a Littl...
Making the Corset - • I made a 1830s Corset ...
Making the Underthings - • Making the UNDERTHINGS...
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Industrial Iron - amzn.to/3AgFFfW
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Pattern - twilatee.blogs...
Pattern & Waistband Closure Info - archive.org/de...
Number of Petticoats Quote “The History of Underclothes” by Willet and Cunnington
Historical Petticoats - emuseum.histor...
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www.metmuseum....
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Hoop Skirt - collections.la...
1860s dress - www.metmuseum....
1870s bustle - collections.la...
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@cindylee2379 22 дня назад

My grandmother, born in 1889, starched a lot of clothes and sheets. She ironed items while the starch was still damp, and hung them to finish drying (if needed). When starching cotton dollies, she pinned the starched and wet dollies to stretched towels so the dollies dried in the flat, perfect shape. Try letting the petticoats or other garments only partially dry before ironing or pressing. It will probably be easier than softening stiff fabric to than iron dry. I still have a half dozen dollies that Grandma starched and pinned over 40 years ago and they still keep their shape perfectly.

@robintheparttimesewer6798 17 дней назад

I love the look of cording and pleats. They all look lovely!

@historical.isolde7918 23 дня назад

Lee-am's RU-vid has a great video on how they starch their 1830's petticoats! I make my own with starch powder, so that I can make it as thin and runny, or as thick and gloopy as my project needs. It will also last quite well in the fridge when I make it up in a spray bottle. The spray bottle will often last for 3-4 months, but I always run out of it before that amount of time, so it may well last longer than that! Also, spraying a slippery silk with a thin starch and later washing it gently once the bulk of they structural sewing is done is some of the best advice I have ever been given. It can't stay on the silk as starch will yellow over time, but giving a slippery silk satin a bit of crispness makes marking, cutting, pinning and sewing your seam SO MUCH EASIER!

@Ane_Rikke 24 дня назад

Grandmama used to iron the pieces she starched while still moist - said that made ironing easier (but do not ask ME if that’s true - i have never ever starched an item of clothing in my life :P )

@pippaseaspirit4415 23 дня назад

It’s definitely true! Not only does it make ironing easier, but it gives a crisper finish. If you want a slightly less stiff starch, keep the water you’ve boiled rice in and use that. It gives a lovely finish and costs you nothing!

@penultimateh766 24 дня назад

Our skilled and hardworking craftsperson can make basically anything!

@SamDias0496 24 дня назад

Tough work.... Long process.... But as always the result is simply fabulous. Good work❤

@BellaMaesDesigns 24 дня назад

The best things usually take time, don't they?! Thanks!

@ElizabethJones-pv3sj 23 дня назад

If you have access to a large round garbage can they are usually close to the right diameter for a petticoat. Ironing does help to create a smooth slightly glossy layer that helps protect against dirt so it wouldn't be ideal to skip ironing altogether (but drying it in the right shape to start will help). You may also want to iron it while slightly damp instead of drying out all of the water and then wetting it again to iron it.

@kathyjin4902 24 дня назад

Bella posted! Yayy :) I always love love love seeing your work! I look up to you a lot haha

@BellaMaesDesigns 24 дня назад

Aw!! Well, there should be a lot more of that in the coming months! :)

@kathyjin4902 24 дня назад

@@BellaMaesDesigns Thanks for the heart too! :D

@shirleyjhaney1041 24 дня назад

I kinda like how the Ariel dress has a shape reminiscent of a woman’s shape but also playful and amusing and not like a woman’s shape- it’s funny both genders had their starch going on. I never thought I could love a dress the way I love Ariel’s dress ❤ I mean this version of Ariel’s dress ❤

@TealCheetah 24 дня назад

What an interesting closure

@pwhite2579 24 дня назад

for the starched / drying petticoats, is there a conical form they can be draped on rather than a flat drying rack and maybe save time?

@BellaMaesDesigns 22 дня назад

That might be an option! I did find that they were quite wrinkled on top of being the wrong shape so I think there's that aspect that would still make me want to iron them.

@pwhite2579 22 дня назад

@@BellaMaesDesigns Yes, one can never escape the Fe while sewing!

@HeatherLewis1700 23 дня назад

In 1840s dress like to petticoats from Ariel's dress ever from the sea!!!! ❤❤❤

@ushere5791 24 дня назад

they're beautiful, bella!! way too pretty to hide underneath another "outer" skirt!

@lesleyharris525 23 дня назад

And watching this in ignoring the ignoring pile. 😂. ❤

@shirleyjhaney1041 24 дня назад

Is there an Enchanted dress? ❤

@tiamatmichellehart6821 13 дней назад

When I was a teen in the 90s, they didn't have much in school about women's fashion pre-1920s except to say how horrible it supposedly was for women's freedom. Here's what the books said about the *1830s:* *The skirts were buoyed out with many petticoats. There were so many that women found it difficult to move their legs under all those petticoats.* I wonder if "4 to 6" of your lovely creations here would be so immobilizing....?

@UnPassant-zs9oc 24 дня назад

So, where do you sell all the costumes you make? What are they used for?

@BellaMaesDesigns 22 дня назад

I don't sell them. Currently, they go into my closet for storage for future use - whether that be future events or content creation (other RU-vid videos or reels / tiktoks.)

@suecottle8434 24 дня назад

Thank you. What an interesting and informative video. What is the red button-holding tool at 07:20 called? Where did you source it from? You are so lucky being able to buy liquid starch in bottles. Not something that's available in New Zealand.

@BellaMaesDesigns 22 дня назад

I'm actually not sure what the name is! It was a tool passed on from my Grandma and I can't find anything online like it!

@sjonik 24 дня назад

Thanks for the video. I have to sew these skirts. please tell me what is the width of the skirts? ❤

@BellaMaesDesigns 22 дня назад

I gave the width measurement for each petticoat when I was talking about length. :) The first one is smaller and I think it was 84" and the next two I did 106" (I'm pretty sure!)

@sjonik 22 дня назад

@@BellaMaesDesigns⁠thank you very much!)) I need to watch your video more attentive, I just started watching yesterday and wrote my question right away)) I love your video!!!

@kirstenpaff8946 24 дня назад

The poor maids in charge of all of that starching and ironing must have hated the fashions in the 1830s.

@davriecaro3036 24 дня назад

Think how they felt about the 1840s or 50s😖

@BellaMaesDesigns 24 дня назад

I know, right? Blah!!

@grannyt6819 23 дня назад

But it had to be so satisfying for some. I love transformations like that. It can be surprising what some people love to do and are happy to do it all day every day.