Pictures!

[isabelladangelo]

The clickable photo on the right are the stays I received today. The photo on the left are of the stays in Kyoto. The blue stays are so 1790's in design it's amazing to look at them. Please check out the set I have up on flickr for pictures of both the blue and green stays. Also, if anyone happens to know what language the wording on the fan is (I think it's German?), please let me know! I'd love to have a translation of what's on the fan since it came in the package with the stays.

Comments

[operafantomet.livejournal.com]

Those blue stays are fantastic! Do you know where they came from?

About the fan, the pics over at Flickr are too small for me to see what's written there. Do you have a bigger picture or is able to write some of the content here?

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

That would be awesome if you could help! Above each of the pictures on flickr, there should be an "all sizes" button. It looks like the zoom in magnifying glass. It will let you see the photo at "medium" but also has options for large and original sizes. Hopefully, you can access them that way. If not, I can always email the originals or, maybe, it might let you access them if I link to the bigger pictures? This is one of the larger sizes (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jubileel/4585590466/sizes/l/).


The fan that came with the stays is written mostly in pencil and has the date 8/01/1910 on it. The ribbon part of the fan has disintegrated but the fan itself is wood so it's not going anywhere for a while. :-)

[quincy134.livejournal.com]

These are gorgeous! Lucky you! Thanks for sharing pictures.

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

:-) I've been having fun drooling looking over them. I think they'll really help me understand the period more.

Right now, I'm just glad I have them and can share them with everyone else who is interested in the late 18th/early 19th centuries.

[jennylafleur.livejournal.com]

Oh very cool indeed - thanks for sharing! Any chance you could be persaued into bringing them to my Picnic in June for us to drool over? *bats eyelashes*

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

Of course! For maybe some yummy rose flavored macaroons? ;-)

[sadievale.livejournal.com]

cool!

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

:-D

[marcine.livejournal.com]

Very nice! They do look late 18c, don't they? Cool!

[isabelladangelo.livejournal.com]

Based on the cut, the style, and the way it's boned, I'm sure the blue one is 1790's.

The green one might have been redesigned. The "inner" part feels a lot earlier (very heavily boned) and looks like it was redone in possibly the late 1780's for the changing look. I'm really not sure since this is an area I've only been playing with for a little over a year.