Sewing, Patterning, Alterations, Etc.

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Chapter Twelve Chapter Twelve: The Romantic Era   1. Allison Boyes: Bishop Sleeve  A bishop sleeve during this period was made with a row of vertical pleats at the shoulder that released into a soft full sleeve gathered to a fitted cuff at the writ. This style of bishop sleeve was popular until the 1840’s. Sleeves during this time had removable cotton or linen linings that allowed regular laundering. The bishop sleeve was considered more practical than the gigot sleeve because it could be rolled up to do chores or jobs. The bishop sleeve gathers at the upper arm, not the shoulder. 2. Burnous - Allison Boyes  A burnous, is a cloak worn by women that is very loose in shape so that it can easily drape over the large hoop skirts. It is a large mantle of about three quarter length with a hood, and the name and style deriving from a similar garment worn by arabs who lived in the middle eastern deserts. “draping into a hooded swath at the back and tied at the front neckline b...

Chapter Eleven Chapter Eleven: The Directoire and Empire Period 1. A la Titus (Hairstyle): McKelle Marshall  During the opening performance at the Comédie-Française in Paris on November 17, 1790, there was pandemonium in the theatre when the actor playing Brutus cried, “Gods! Give us death rather than slavery!” The coiffure à la Titus was a short and choppy cut. Bangs were left long over the forehead, and the hair was cropped to the top of the neck in the back. Initially popular with Republican men, by the mid-1790s the hairstyle was also sported by women. https://shannonselin.com/2015/05/coiffure-a-la-titus/ During the later years of the French Revolution, many fashionable young men and women of the upper and middle classes began to cut their hair short. It was called the Titus haircut, or coiffure à la Titus. The name is a reference to Titus Junius Brutus, the elder son of Lucius Junius Brutus, who founded the Roman Republic in 509 BC by famously overthrowing the Roman monarc...