That's my grandmother's 1940 electrical Singer sewing machine. She's a gorgeous machine, and I love working on her a lot more than my twenty-first century traveling sewing machine. I focused on the right? side of the corset, sewing the seams together. I am still incredibly shaky with the lap-seams (aka French seams).After the seams of doom, I need to sew on interfacing ... then I can start sewing the other side of the corset. I held the corset against my body, and it goes down my hip, which I love. My 1860s corset, bought from Abraham's Lady several years ago, is of course forty years earlier, style-wise. It ends at the waist. Edwardian women wore different clothes than their mid-Victorian sisters, so of course the undergarments are different.
The beautiful Millicent Evans, from turn of the century,under Creative Commons attribution license.
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Old sewing machines are the best! They really don't make them like they used to.
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