Merry Christmas!

 We hope everyone has had a festive and delightful Christmas Day!

First Christmas Stamp

 Happy Christmas Eve!

We hope everyone is staying warm and enjoying time with your family and friends.

Here is a picture of the very first Christmas Stamp ever, and it was Canadian!

December Fashion friday

 This is a great video montage from Asta Darling on FB.

Enjoy 

The Victorian Society of Alberta

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Anything you can do I can do better 🎶 Here’s to the fearless women who came before us and paved the way 🥂

“By the turn of the century The Queen in October 1903 relates how ‘many a skirted climber’ had reached the Needle, which juts out from Lake District peak the Great Gable. But several obstacles faced these pioneering women: the difficulty of obtaining proper clothing for their task, and the lack of a mountaineering organisation that would allow them to join."

But The Queen was on hand to provide advice to women on how to dress for mountaineering. The main taboo when it came to dressing for climbing centred on the skirt: practicality and safety dictated that it should be abandoned, but the moral code of the day meant that it should be retained. The Queen in 1890 writes how:

"Some ladies dispense with skirts altogether, and lay them aside with the other impedimenta when climbing really begins. But this requires some little courage, and by carefully arranging the length of the skirt, it may be worn without inconvenience. It must, however, be capable of being shortened so as to cover the knees; anything longer than this is certainly inconvenient, if not actually dangerous.”

December Book Tuesday

 Oops missed last week but here is one for the season.

Enjoy
The Victorian Society of Alberta

The Victorian Christmas book 

by Antony Miall (Author)

Diaries, novels, poems, letters, and magazines of the period contribute to a comprehensive survey of the customs, traditions, and flavor of Christmas in Victorian England, while greeting cards, toys, cartoons, advertisements, and engravings provide visual delight.

November Fashion Friday

It is finally winter in Alberta!
So for this month's Fashion Friday we have an excellent video from Sew_Through_Time  on YouTube.
Enjoy
and Stay Warm!

The Victorian Society of Alberta

November Book Tuesday

For this months book Tuesday we have a Dover reprint of  "Dress Making, Up to Date" from 1905.

Enjoy
The Victorian Society of Alberta

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Authentic Victorian Dressmaking Techniques

Edited byKristina Harris

Publisher: Dover Publications

Shipping dimensions: 9" H x 7" W x 1" L

ISBN: 9780486404851

 

At the turn of the century, ladies of privilege could easily afford their own dressmakers, and even middle-class housewives occasionally employed competent seamstresses. But many women did their own sewing, often relying on Dressmaking, Up to Date, a how-to book published by the Butterick Publishing Company. First published in 1905 and widely considered the first modern American sewing book, this extremely rare volume is published here complete and unabridged.
This Butterick manual provides clear and concise instructions for altering patterns, hand-sewing stitches, and creating shirt-blouses, skirts, wedding and evening gowns, coats, jackets, maternity wear, undergarments, bathrobes, children's clothing, and many other articles of apparel. Today's costume historians and sewing enthusiasts will find fascinating instruction in such long-lost arts as boning a bodice perfectly, creating skirt sweepers and bust enhancers, concealing hooks and eyes, and other vintage dressmaking techniques.
An indispensable archive of information on late-Victorian and turn-of-the-century clothing, this volume will be of immense interest to anyone fascinated by the fashion and costume of the period. It will also be of value to needleworkers wanting to create accurate reproductions of Victorian-era costume, or to anyone interested in applying time-honored sewing techniques to a modern wardrobe.

October Fashion Friday

 Happy Halloween!

People seem to think corsets are scary so for this months Fashion Friday we have an excellent little video from Littleblossomdarling on Intstagram.

Check it out.

Enjoy
The Victorian Society of Alberta