What did Victorian sewing patterns look like? || The oldest fashion magazines in my collection

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1880's fashion is truly spectacular, so I wanted to show it to you, these, the oldest fashion magazines in my collection. In this video we will be looking at a 140 year old fashion magazines, that's right a VICTORIAN fashion magazines and even better you could buy the sewing patterns from it. I will show you all the amazing victorian sewing patterns from both the Weldon's Ladies Journal November, 1885 and Weldons Ladies Journal September 1886. In these antiques magazines, it showcases Victorian Weldon's patterns from the 1880's as well as all the "current" fashion trends.
The 1880's clothing it features includes but is not limited to, lobster tail bustles, corsets, children's stays, traveling costumes, and so many more. These wonderful examples go beyond vintage patterns and dive clear into the world of antique sewing patterns.
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0:00 Howdy
0:35 What to expect
1:52 November, 1885
20:40 September,1886
34:09 See ya next time
34:36 Me being a goof

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@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

If you enjoyed this video, let me know if you would like to have similar, low-key tours of my catalogs that I own. Images from the magazines will be added to my Ko-fi account tomorrow (Sunday, 6/20/21): ko-fi.com/stephaniecanada

@gdhhayes2129 3 жыл бұрын

Very much enjoyed this

@brigidscaldron 3 жыл бұрын

I loved this!

@aletasonner3989 3 жыл бұрын

I would love more videos like this but with more of the close-up shots like you did on a few of the looks. Once it was close up it was so amazing to see all the details I couldn't see from the wider shot. Beautiful find!!

@button4631 3 жыл бұрын

Loved this so much and would love more like this, also intrigued by the Mac and cheese recipe

@pat56458 Жыл бұрын

I'm only just seeing this now...where have you been all my KZfaq life?? If you made copies of these pages, especially the ads, us junk journalers would buy you a bunch of coffees!. We would absolutely love to have copies of those!!

@snooksmcdermott 3 жыл бұрын

Rare books & preservation librarian here -- Can people stop with the "white gloves must be worn to handle old paper!" obsession? Stephanie is perfectly right in using clean bare hands (no moisturizer) to handle old brittle paper because wearing gloves, even nitrile gloves (which are the gold standard, not white cotton gloves) will make it much more likely for her to tear or damage it. If you want to wear gloves while handling a paper object, use nitrile gloves. If you are handling photographs or metal objects, definitely use nitrile gloves. But stop with the white glove obsession!!!! Ok, rant over. lol.

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

No worries! I actually hadn't gotten any backlash, I just wanted to preface it before we got started. I want folks to know how I do it, so if they come across some they know what to do. But thank you for confirming I am doing it correct!

@LadyoftheDreamless14 3 жыл бұрын

Nitrile! Thats what the other type of glove was. I could not remember the name for the life of me lol.

@snooksmcdermott 3 жыл бұрын

@@StephanieCanada Pre-emptive rant. ;-)

@juliaforsyth8332 3 жыл бұрын

Yes!

@antiquesewist423 11 ай бұрын

An expert! Score!❤ Ok, I have like a dozen mid 19th c. Ladies magazines I got off ebay. They were already taped up (scotch tape, packing tape, ugh) in quite a few places. Is it worth trying to remove the tape at all, or would I just cause more damage at this point?

@gwirithil1 3 жыл бұрын

Many if not most museums no longer use white gloves for handling fragile stuff for exactly the reasons you gave. Thank you SO much for posting this!

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I am glad you enjoyed it! And I have heard from a few folks now that my way is actually correct. Makes me feel good.

@patriciat7058 3 жыл бұрын

Macasscar oil was used on men’s hair and got all over the furniture. Hence antimacasscars were put on the furniture (like doilies). Really liked this one. I hope we’ve seen that goat for the last time.

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the information! That is very interesting. And no, that goat will be around for some time. I giggle every time. 😅

@lizcademy4809 3 жыл бұрын

And the best pronunciation (withAmerican accent) is McAsser. I like the goat. It sums up the personality of your channel :-)

@barbaraferron7994 Жыл бұрын

My grandmother made those doilies. I remember them at her house in the 1960s.

@loisgehman949 3 жыл бұрын

I find it amusing that all the bustle illustrations are drawn in such a way as to make them look like centaurs… at least they look like that to me!

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Tee hee hee... I will now forever see centaurs!

@Worldbuilder 3 жыл бұрын

Now I’m picturing a centaur in a bustle dress. Thank you for that image. (I just watched Percy Jackson. Honestly, now I’m picturing Pierce Brosnan as a centaur in a fabulous bustle jacket and skirt…)

@lorieharris2776 3 жыл бұрын

Lol. It's hard for me to not laugh due to having read through my great-great-grandfather's personal journals. He admired horses, buggies, and races. Much the way some guys admire sports cars these days. So he wrote, in....unique detail (lol.) About meeting great-great-grandma and setting his cap for her. "Set her with a saddle, silver bells to delight more her jaunty walk. Head high, slender neck. The best choice of any young mans stable." Big bottom girls y'all. Even our ancient grannies were making the world go round. Lol

@thedrinkinggames9573 3 жыл бұрын

KZfaqr Engineering Knits actually has a "silent sewing machine" from Wilcox and Gibbs, and she has a video about it. It's pretty neat

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

OH COOL! Thank you!

@FloridasYesteryear 3 жыл бұрын

In the first magazine there was an ad for the author George Sand. She was an immensely popular French writer. Her real name is Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin and was apparently more popular than Victor Hugo.

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Oh how COOL! Thank you for sharing!

@cattuslavandula Жыл бұрын

Interesting how the drape of the fabric in the skirts resemble the elaborate curtains of the Victorian era.

@7arboreal 3 жыл бұрын

Wright’s Coal Tar Soap, Pear’s Soap, Bird’s Custard Powder and Cross and Blackwell soups are all still sold in supermarkets. I love Pear’s Soap, it’s gorgeous. Very interesting, thank you.

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Very cool! Thank you Annette!

@Hiker_who_Sews 3 жыл бұрын

As we look at all the incredible women's costumes, we see (at 17:30) an ad for George Sand's novels, and I'm reminded how she wore men's clothing without a permit! Thanks Stephanie, for such a fun walk through antiquity!

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

You are so welcome! I am glad to provide glimpses into the past.

@kyriea3112 3 жыл бұрын

So my boyfriend is about as interested in my Sewing Videos as I am in his Motorbike/Car videos. He happened to pass by when you were describing finding the magazine in a Florida Attic and I haven't heard him laugh that hard in a week.

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness Kyriea! Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this with me!

@stevezytveld6585 3 жыл бұрын

{screaming goat echoing this comment} - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown

@neilchowney8982 3 жыл бұрын

From England and a Londoner. I have some Weldon patterns and transfers and know the areas, locations of the ads well, especially the central London locations, as a great deal of the rag trade was located in this area and I used to work and shop there. I worked in Lower Regent Street, which feeds into Regent Strret via Piccadilly Circus.

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

How cool! I hope some of these make more sense to you, than they did me. 😂

@gillianairlie4187 3 жыл бұрын

Antimacasars were decorative chair covers to protect furniture from gentlemens’ hair oil. Macasar hair oil.

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@caosville Жыл бұрын

I recognize the crochet pages! In particular, the baby overalls and cozy antimacassar. They are part of a collection in a book called Victorian Crochet By Weldon and Company put out by by Dover Publications in 1974. I found this book in the library ages ago and had to acquire it for myself. I have spent many hours trying to translate the instructions for lace and edgings, with varying success.

@lazygardens 6 ай бұрын

That ad for the opera company would be "tipped in" (glued to a bound-in page) only in the magazines destined for the town the company was playing in. It's an early "targeted ad".

@michellecornum5856 3 жыл бұрын

The fact that the PATTERN was still in there was no small miracle!! Yes, you may similarly low key more catalogs. YAY!

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

RIGHT! I LOVE IT! And thank you! If there is anyone else who you think would enjoy this, please share this with them.

@LadyoftheDreamless14 3 жыл бұрын

Heyyyy, library tech student here! Fun facts! Part of my schooling is some Archival Training and, im here to inform you all that some archives will not make you wear gloves depending on what you want to look at. I know, the horror! But, the main reason for this is, ironically, to protect the archival material. When you go to an archive or a museum, the gloves they offer you are usually made of cotton. They arent as thick as the cheap winter gloves you get in the $1 bin, but they are pretty much that. These gloves are wonderful for protecting materials, but they do diminish your sense if touch and can cause you to unintentionally rip or break a part of the material. These gloves are like any other mass manufactured material and can be flawed as well. It sounds silly, but should these gloves fray, those stray bits can catch on the material and damage it. Latex or any plastic glove would be the easy second pick but, they have chemicals of their own that can unintentionally damage the archival material as well. I am also wondering how Stephanie is storing these. Personally, id be shilling out for the archive grade paper and boxes and putting them in a cool, dry place. I think shes mentioned before that she lives in Florida, im not sure what they use to combat humidity besides temp controled storage rooms but it might be worth it to reach out to a local archive and ask!

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Well, thank you! I actually am sending these lovelies to my friend in Texas who is aiming to start a sewing pattern museum. So they won't be in Florida much longer, but I figure inside my climate controlled house is better than the garage attic I found them in.

@LadyoftheDreamless14 3 жыл бұрын

@@StephanieCanada hey, welcome!! OHHHHHHHH YES YES YES YES YES YES!!!! I was also wondering what they were stored in cause the acid free paper and boxes would be SOOO good for them but they are... SO stupidly pricey???? For some reason?????? The site we looked at had a "acid free soft display" for $120 (it was the most expencive one mind you) .... IT WAS A SQUARE PILLOW. THATS IT. So dumb. Anyway, im so excited to hear!! And yes inside the house is much much better lol. I was so surprised by how good of shape they were in, you have truely given them a second life!

@snooksmcdermott 3 жыл бұрын

@@LadyoftheDreamless14 Mylar sleeves are not too pricey, and you can get a roll and make them yourself. If you need a display or a book cradle and don't have any money, use rolled up white towels! That's what us pros with small budgets use. :-)

@LadyoftheDreamless14 3 жыл бұрын

@@snooksmcdermott mylar sleeves... that sounds familiare... yes! I would never pay that for a display pillow. It was just an exercise to get us looking at stuff. The entire time we did i was thinking of alternatives. I think the only thing id shell out for is paper and boxes. Maybe the occasional specialty protector to keep something partocularily delicate safe but thats it.

@lazygardens 6 ай бұрын

I find the ads fascinating ... because that's what people were being told was necessary, or advertising what they actually used: menstrual supplies, complexion soaps, nerve tonics, laundry aids.

@Connie6690 15 күн бұрын

Same thing today 😅

@MeMe-Moi 3 жыл бұрын

Frye's cocoa is still available. It was the only brand my grandmother would use.

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing! Thank you for sharing!

@shariberry3123 Жыл бұрын

I read online somewhere about what life was like before sewing machines were widely used. Apparently, girls and women were required to spend many daylight hours sewing clothing, before darkness because it was difficult to sew by candle and oil lamp. Men wore out their clothing quickly while working, so women were required to sew enough replacement clothing and this was quite a task. When the sewing machine became widely available, suddenly women had more time available not taken up by hand sewing, which brought about the concept of "free time" or "leisure time".

@jomercer21113 3 ай бұрын

I adore old magazine and newspapers! The Willcox & Gibbs "Silent Automatic" chainstitchers are very quiet--no bobbin/shuttle thrashing around. Voyage lady has a pair of binoculars slung over her shoulder. Antimacassar was to prevent hair oils from staining the upholstery.

@fluffydragon84 11 ай бұрын

I just wanted to let you know that I found your channel fairly recently and it's extremely pleasing to my ADHD brain to just have your videos playing while I sew or work on other projects. I might never buy a historical pattern, but apparently, I really like hearing about them.

@Queensthief195 2 жыл бұрын

I just want a closeup of the ad: SOUTHALL'S SANITARY TOWELS FOR LADIES. This is so exciting!

@annetteavery3349 23 күн бұрын

Just watching this for the first time, love seeing the vintage sewing machine adverts and the antimacassa (yes, chair coverings often for arms on chairs for sweaty hands and sometimes for the backs, for hair oils used by gentlemen of the time) and sometimes people still use the covers and the hair oil or Brylcream in the UK. Thank you, this is fascinating, especially the bustles for children 😱

@sublimnalphish7232 2 жыл бұрын

The lace in that was spectacular! Wow. I'm a bit older,lol. But as a child I saw many of reprints of things as old as that. I think that format was still kind of similar in the 1930/40s era. Still, It was fun to look back. I am surprised that magazine wasn't a bit wholeier than thou from being mite eaten. I'm amazed it lasted that long that well. Awesome we have that to look at. You can tell art was not taught to the laymen of that day also but hey ya do what ya gotta and it was a nice service to the ladies.

@lindasheets1767 Жыл бұрын

I love looking at these old magazines with you

@PamelaSmithakapossbert 3 жыл бұрын

Wright's Coal Tar soap is still being made and I love it.

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Oh how cool!

@juliaforsyth8332 3 жыл бұрын

@@StephanieCanada And Pear's soap. Lovely scent. Coal Tar soap is good for skin troubles.

@india1422 3 жыл бұрын

I love Pears’ soap although I heard the contents had changed. Coal tar soap - reminds me of school toilets with the nasty soap all soggy where it had been left in a pool of water

@DaphneAbernathy 3 жыл бұрын

Regent St and Oxford St in London are now known as Oxford Circus where you will go if you want to do some high street shopping. Regent St is also beautifully decorated at Christmas. Those directions made sense to me and I’m an American living in England.

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Daphne! I am so glad that they actually make sense! (even if it wasn't to me)

@nelliewerger5505 Жыл бұрын

Feel like i know you, seems like we ought to be friends for real. Im also an opera costumer, i work in theater. The ads are as fastenating as the outfits. Amazing how many of those things are still available.

@robinbaum-hn2pc 7 ай бұрын

I love going over your older patterns. The wonderful Victorian Lady’s Home Journal was such a treat. I love the 30’s eras and back from there. Those old pattern designs are so very complex and detailed. I guess they didn’t have the time wasters we have today and can do “slower” more detailed and tricky little things I would be very careful attempting now. Keep up the great sharing❤❤❤❤

@j.elizabethbrakhage7192 7 ай бұрын

I have a Wilcox and Gibbs treadle sewing machine from the 1890s I believe. Yes, it is very quiet. I love it.

@aeray3581 Жыл бұрын

@StephanieCanada Antimacassar were seat back covers to keep hair oils and powders off he upholstery. We saw them their heads down the line with the little "bibs" on the backs of railway seats.

@morganzimmerman1337 3 жыл бұрын

Okay, this might as well of been an actual time machine 😂 Thank you for going page by page. What an incredible find!

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

I had to remind myself to stay at a slower pace so that y'all could enjoy them as much as I did! I hope it worked. 😀

@cmg565 7 ай бұрын

I love all things for many reasons, primarily because I like to see what people actually wore and did during that period. I also enjoy vintage recipes in would like to see the mac and cheese one.

@ruthkirkparick3535 Жыл бұрын

I think it's pronounced anti-mic-asser. It's a protective chair cover. Usually embroidered or crocheted doilies to lay on upholstered furniture where skin oils might come in contact with the fabric, on arm rests and the top of chair backs (dark stains, difficult to remove). The illustration appears to be an all-in-one (which I've never seen before). I have a few from my grandmothers'.

@sbender3787 Жыл бұрын

There are modern patterns, for historical dolls costumes that you could study for shapes of pattern pieces. Of course, there are books that illustrate the pattern pieces that you can "size up". But an actual pattern that you can cut out and put together that is already to scale, will give you insight with less work. I am not talking about American Girl or even Barbie patterns. There are special hand crafted dolls that come with fashion from different eras. Probably look at Etsy. I haven't dealt with dolls in quite a few decades.

@janelaroque 2 ай бұрын

I'm more used to the 1880's patterns all on the same piece of paper with differing edge marks to identify the piece from all the others written on top and over it. Several garments on the same sheet of paper.

@lauralake7430 Жыл бұрын

I own, and use, the Wilcox and Gibbs Automatic sewing machine advertised! It is, indeed silent! Mine is a hand crank, but I have a buddy who has a treadle

@TheKayleigh124 3 жыл бұрын

US sarcasm doesn’t hit quite as good as sarcasm here in the UK but I do appreciate it.👍🏻😆

@annastebelskyj580 2 жыл бұрын

That "costume de voyage" lady at 25:15 is wearing a binoculars case! Probably made from heavily oiled tooling leather.

@stevezytveld6585 3 жыл бұрын

This is a lovely tour. Me and my 1915 Singer 99K hand-crank sewing machine vote for more, please. 1885 edition: And let's just have a moment of silence for anyone who used the "coal tar" soap. Because good parts of Ottawa are still contaminated with the stuff... yikes. You should see if Nicole from Costuming Drama would be interested in a collaboration? Also - you could scan that centerfold and load it up to your Kof-ee page... another idea; I'm a-full of 'em. 1886 edition: Poisoned for life by a thimble... unless that thimble was made out of lead and you soaked it in your tea water every day... huh? What the holy heck of an urban legend are we dealing with here. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve)

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the ideas! And I would love to collab with other channels, but right now I am still quite small, so letting your friends know about me by sharing my channel is the best way to get bigger collabs going.

@stevezytveld6585 3 жыл бұрын

@@StephanieCanada They just be people, darlin'. 'No' is the worst that can happen. And even then it would probably be a 'no for now'... Can you tell I've worked fundraisers for not-for-profit-land charities. If you want to bounce some ideas around for your approach, I can be that wall fer ya. You doing this years version of Co Co Vid? I haven't figured out who the organizing brain is for the festivities... but I think it's for some time in August?

@expatpiskie 3 жыл бұрын

Wright's Coal Tar soap is still a thing in the UK. Imo it smells vile but I know my gran swore by it. When mum was growing up she even used it to wash her hair together with rain water from the water butt. She may have been onto something as she always had lovely skin and hair even at 100.

@stevezytveld6585 3 жыл бұрын

@@expatpiskie That's amazing. And amazing that it seemed to have worked. My only relationship with coal tar is from a distance, as people with hazmat suits and shovels do their decontamination routine. Because eating so much as a tomato that grows up in that soil is a cancer risk. It's gotta be a different substance in the soap. The UK is too good with regulations to allow carcinogens into the soap supply of the country...

@expatpiskie 3 жыл бұрын

@@StephanieCanada I'd love to see you do a Collab with The Closet Historian. Although she usually drafts her own patterns she has used vintage patterns in the past. One that springs to mind is a pair of trousers that she made.

@Kindofalot 2 жыл бұрын

I found your channel through a comment on another video and I just want to say HOW DARE KZfaq hide such delicious content from me

@StephanieCanada 2 жыл бұрын

Aww thank you Ash! I am so glad you are here!

@carolekhoury9984 6 ай бұрын

Macassar oil was a man's hair grooming oil in the 1800s through early 1900s .To keep furniture clean, one used 'antimacassars'.

@evelynashford5272 Жыл бұрын

As always, fascinated with your collection. Wondering if you have considered digitizing/archiving the content of these relics, or if you know if someone has already done so. They could be valuable to researchers of various kinds, as well as to us vintage sewing buffs?

@sonjanordahl3158 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing. Although is somewhat understand the progression of the various bustles and why the underlying scaffolding was needed. How could anyone believe that shape was appealing?🤣

@shariberry3123 Жыл бұрын

I used to visit an old building full of misc. antiques collected by a flea market seller. She had this very old dressmaker's model ( I think that's the right word). It had all these hand sized puffy squares all around it that could be cranked out to accommodate a larger silhouette. It was amazing, it looked so damn old and I could visualize the shop it stood in back in the early to mid 1800's.

@OddlyElly 3 жыл бұрын

I have adored old magazines and Ladies' journals since I read the Little House books as a kid 😍 the 1880s silhouettes are my absolute favourite of all time (partly why Back to the Future part III is one of my favourite movies). The hats! All the illustrations are stunning 😍 those sailing costumes!!! The electropathic belt looks like it could be an early iteration of a TENS machine 😂 actually extremely effective for lower abdominal/back pain.

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Oh me too! I have always loved old patterns and magazines! And yes, the sailor costumes were the best!

@KatieRae_AmidCrisis 3 жыл бұрын

Yes please! to more page-turner tours of more magazines or catalogues. I'm a complete non-sewer, but a history nerd - and I very much enjoy your channel. Both your content and your presenting style are great.

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Kate!

@believeinfaeries8713 3 жыл бұрын

I suspect that what looked like studded fabric was a lamb fur edged garment. It's very curly and the illustrations of the time looked studded. I learned about it when reading through Peterson's Ladies Magazine from the late 1880s.

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Oh you are SO right (I think my 2000's emo brain just wanted to see studs).

@believeinfaeries8713 3 жыл бұрын

@@StephanieCanada Lol! I get that! My 2000s goth brain wants every dark colored illustration to be black fabric.

@mladeau2105 3 жыл бұрын

And why not? But a cheeky request, do you have any counter pattern catalogue? I would love to watch more videos of someone going through them. They all seem to be in the USA.

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! If enough folks reach out and let me know the same, I can certainly add more to the film list.

@catherinerw1 3 жыл бұрын

item 3262 is the "Hurlingham" wrap (place where they play polo now!)

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Hurlingham! THANK YOU!

@grandymommy4531 Жыл бұрын

How did these ladies sit down? And maybe the thimble was lead? Very interesting. This would be my great-grandmother's time. I believe she wore bustles when she was young.

@zombiedoggie2732 Жыл бұрын

Willcox and Gibbs automatic silent sewing machine. Yes, it was mostly, silent! It was a chain stitch machine that had a special tension that place tension on the thread when it needed it for each stitch. I used to own a later, electrified one. Sadly they don't make needles for this anymore. The shape was interesting too. It looked like a G from the back!

@StephanieCanada Жыл бұрын

Thank is so cool! Thank you for the knowledge!

@zombiedoggie2732 Жыл бұрын

@@StephanieCanada They are also pretty darned cute. If you got the room and want an antique machine just for display I do recommend a Wilcox and Gibbs automatic!

@yvonnebuckley1740 Жыл бұрын

The Antimacassar was a doily like piece of decorative fabric placed on the back of chairs or sofa to protect the fabric from dirt or oily hair as men of that some eras wore it in their hair to slick it down.

@AdventuresInLife2012 3 жыл бұрын

That was so cool! A glimpse into history of the fashion world.

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Linda!

@JordannMHall 3 жыл бұрын

Love seeing these old magazines 😍😍😍😍

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

I am SO glad! They really are a treasure!

@vickismallwood2082 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful historical books and what a wonderful find with the pattern.

@StephanieCanada Жыл бұрын

It really was quite the find!

@aeray3581 Жыл бұрын

Hey, Bird's Custard Powder was made here in Birmingham, England.

@StephanieCanada Жыл бұрын

How cool!

@karengerber8390 Жыл бұрын

Enjoying your exploration!

@zeusathena26 3 жыл бұрын

Are you surprised? Did you think we wouldn't want to see this? Generally if you are interested in one bit of history, your curious about all of it. At this time in history most fabric, wallpaper (which was almost always fabric), skin creams, & cosmetics contained arsenic, & lead. I'm glad I'm alive now!😁

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

I mean, I usually don't dip my toes into waters that I can't speak on. (Unless it is just plain sewing, then god help anyone who is trying to follow along)

@ColorJoyLynnH Жыл бұрын

My grandmother was born 4 months after the 2nd issue’s publication date. So fascinating.

@gangurogeisha 3 жыл бұрын

Lucky! The oldest written document I have is only from 1895. :/

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Honestly, I still can't believe I found them. In the wild even.

@user-ft8bf7yb8o 8 ай бұрын

I am VERY late to the party. Sorry. You saw a crochet pattern for an Antimacassar. In those days there was a hair pomade called Macassar. It was very sticky and when young men came a courting they would get the back of their head stuck to your furniture and leave a stain. It became fashionable to have little doily like things on the backs of your chairs and sofas to avoid ruining them. They were called Antimacassars (Anty - mac- ass - ars).

@5DNRG 2 жыл бұрын

As soon as you said I'm a little bit morbid. I thought Scorpio...HA!!😉👍

@aletasonner3989 3 жыл бұрын

I'm so glad you did the Rachel Maksey pattern video because that KZfaq algorithm suggested that video and I'm so glad I found your channel!! Love your videos! One day I'll probably buy a pattern from you too...but I should probably work on using the ones I have already first 😆

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Aww yeah! I am so glad too. Rachel was so nice to let me do that, and I am glad it meant the algorithm got it's poop in a group to show my videos to new folks. Happy you are here!

@CharredFibers Жыл бұрын

That book is from my birthday. Yes I'm *that old*

@Downhomeherbwife 3 жыл бұрын

I love that you have a little Monticello cutout

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! My husband and I went there on our first date to learn from the past.

@BeverleyButterfly 3 жыл бұрын

Wow they are so beautiful

@zeusathena26 3 жыл бұрын

No little kids alive today would willingly wear a bustle! If you do try that though, please record it! I it's to extreme for KZfaq there's LiveLeak. 😁

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Me: as a mother who had a tough pregnancy, would revel in the awkward of my kid in a bustle Also me: I wouldn't make her go at it alone. I would have to make one for me too.

@zeusathena26 3 жыл бұрын

I've worked in a preschools & kindergartens where we had plays, pageants, etc. It's rare to walk away without bruises after getting 30 toddlers in costumes! 🤣🤣

@constancevigilance1730 Жыл бұрын

I really wanted you to read the article in the first one 'To The Corpulent'. And now I'm a year late bsides. Bummer.

@sharpduds 3 жыл бұрын

Antimacassars were to protect the upholstery from the macassar oil used by the gentlemen to style their hair. One would suppose that it had a tendency to spread, and, like Brilliantine, appeared to be notoriously difficult to get out of fabric, which might explain the popularity of detachable collars, especially the 'disposable' variety made from paper or celluloid

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@kathrynmdesign Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for sharing those knitting patterns! I’m loving looking at your Ko-if page. So many pretty pictures! And I should knit those dusting mitts. and the “Dog Blanket” OMG I see an ugly Christmas sweater for my GSD I’m my future hahahahahah! I’m better at knitting than sewing but I like to try projects here and there and I LOVE vintage sewing “stuff”

@adelaaire8861 3 жыл бұрын

PLEASE make the antique mac' and cheese recipe! P.S. love this look through 😄

@miketa87 2 ай бұрын

What an interesting video…thanks!!

@DaphneAbernathy 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, more of this please. It does end with me searching Esty and eBay for similar magazines and catalogues though.

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Oh I know that feeling TOO well!

@marimba26 3 жыл бұрын

This was so much fun! Just looking at all those incredibly pleated skirts makes me swoon a bit...even if the second bustle "shelf" is not my favorite look.

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

I am so glad I could share their beauty with everyone! If there is anyone else who would enjoy this video, please consider sharing it with them.

@esmesvintagecloset 3 жыл бұрын

I am still swooning. There are some bodice patterns in there that I would kill to get my dirty little mitts on! I have a couple of Paris Mode magazines from 1903 and 1905, one of which has the pattern. Except one piece, which they carried over to the following week to make sure you got the next edition. So many ideas, so little time...

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

They really are gorgeous. I could seriously look at them ALL DAY!

@esmesvintagecloset 3 жыл бұрын

@@StephanieCanada Truly Victorian website has a bodice that is really similar to one of the ones in the 1887 booklet which is giving me some ideas... also, what are the odds that you might be offering duplicates of the pattern from the magazine? Because I would bloody love that!!!

@gladdy2104 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing this treasure! 💞 I've got a magazine from 1901 and it is so exiting to look at this gorgeous paintings! And my journal also have the original pattern... So exciting.. 💞

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Happy to share! And HOW LUCKY YOU!

@cattuslavandula Жыл бұрын

Lol. Anti-mac-a-sar. It's a decorative doily like cover for the backs of furniture. They protected the fabric from soiling, especially from the Macassar hair oil of gentlemen.

@judysocal8682 Жыл бұрын

Franklin Habit has knit some of the patterns from Weldon's.

@littleangel9531 Жыл бұрын

The antimacassar is a loose cover to go on the top of the chair back to stop hair products (oils, pomade etc) from damaging the chair upholstery fabric. Love your vlogs @Stephanie 💖

@marierotundo9616 Жыл бұрын

Amazing find, those dresses were fantastic, would like to know how they sat down in them 😂 also when are you going to make one? Would love to see that video ❤

@Carmen-nq8ex 3 жыл бұрын

That was just fantastic! Thanks for sharing xx

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Happy to share! Please share with a friend so others can enjoy them too.

@roadrunnercrazy 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant! I thoroughly enjoyed this! 👍

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@TealCheetah 3 жыл бұрын

These are amazing, both the dresses and the ads!

@SouthpawPatty 3 жыл бұрын

Those are amazing! I loved watching this video. Thanks for sharing!

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Patty! If there is anyone who would enjoy this, feel free to share with them.

@michellecranford9238 3 жыл бұрын

Thoroughly enjoyed it..please do more of the flip throughs if you can..

@tishie42 3 жыл бұрын

Your pop culture references are the best very best! And thanks for this!

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I would've added some more, but my computer kept crashing.

@tishie42 3 жыл бұрын

@@StephanieCanada does it need a new Flux capacitor? Lolol

@AReluctantSeamstress 3 жыл бұрын

LOL, you and I have different ideas of what to do with things that are 150 years old. But I love how careful you are with the magazine. Also, if my treadle is freshly oiled, it’s very quiet.

@button4631 3 жыл бұрын

You must be a fellow deathling and watch Caitlin Doherty then? And yikes creepy kids, but omg the little knitted feetsies ♥️

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Oh yes, I LOVE Caitlin! If only I could think of something to present to her as a collab. It would be top notch!

@laurenlaker 3 жыл бұрын

Yes I love the Centaur Women

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

RIGHT! I will never un-see that image.

@daxxydog5777 3 жыл бұрын

Woot! First! Love your videos!

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Huzzah!

@SewBiased 3 жыл бұрын

You work in opera?!?!?! Am opera singer! So excite!

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

I sure doI I am an opera stage manager.

@SewBiased 3 жыл бұрын

@@StephanieCanada no wonder you're so sassy and organized!

@OBLIVIOUSappple 3 жыл бұрын

I would love to have old magazines but I don’t trust myself being careful enough 🥲

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Then digital copies are the way to go, that way you get to enjoy it, without fear of damaging it.

@angelaross1 6 ай бұрын

Antimacassar (sp) were to keep the hair oils/ grease from ruining the upholstery on the chairs

@Seamstressed 3 жыл бұрын

I think I have that Willcox & Gibbs sewing machine in my collection. And yes, it's silent hehehehehe One my subscribers just recommended me your channel and I love you now. Mwa!

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Aww shucks! Thanks so much!

@onesma1729 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful magazines!! Soooooo when will you start making some of these beautiful dresses 😉🤭 I really enjoyed looking through these with you! Ty for sharing!

@StephanieCanada 3 жыл бұрын

Well... I don't have a corset, or bustle, or undergarments.... so MAYBE in the future, but for now I am going to stick to my mid-century madness that I like to play in. But thank you for the idea.

@lisaterk9318 Жыл бұрын

It is an antemacassar. It protected the back of a chair from Macassar, a man's hair product (think geri curl). Easier to clean doily than chair.

@paulinelarson465 5 ай бұрын

Those "shelf butt" bustles make the women look like centaurs! ! How would they sit down ! All new chairs needed ? How would they ride in a carriage ? ?