March 12, 2010
Bustle cage
Posted by Arden Kirkland under labs, Videos | Tags: bustle, labs, underwear, video |[4] Comments
Students from the Historic Costume Preservation Workshop at Vassar College examine a bustle cage with a patent from the 1870’s.
March 12th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
I applaud your studies, but I don’t find these videos very instructive. The garments are difficult to see when explored in this manner. The videos are far too time-consuming to watch. Could you not carefully
photograph your artifacts and write about your findings? There’s a good reason museums do it that way…
March 12th, 2010 at 10:49 pm
I am really enjoying watching these videos, and reading the posts! Quite a stroll down memory lane for me.
Have you all come across the mid-19th century wedding dress, with the inscription written on the boning channels in the bodice? I think that was always my favourite piece.
March 13th, 2010 at 8:08 am
Martha – thanks for your honest comment!
Actually, we are also taking many photos and writing as much documentation as we can, all of which is going into our local database. Unfortunately, it is very time consuming to process all of that and get it online. The videos, while not high quality, are our most efficient way of getting the conversation going.
We are taking many photos as we work, and will take high quality photos of the objects we are able to stabilize and mount for our final projects at the end of the semester.
These other photos and written descriptions will end up online eventually in a more formal digital collection, integrated with our database – but that’s still very much in the development stage. For now, posting in the blog is a manual, and therefore time-consuming, process.
That being said, I am hoping to carve out some time next week to post some other objects as photos, not video. So, I hope you’ll come back!
March 13th, 2010 at 8:12 am
Megan – thanks for your comment! We definitely should show the 1854 wedding dress soon – it is a favorite. Miss Hummel has done some interesting genealogical research with it, so we’ll have to get her to share that.