Hourglass Attire

I really had fun both examining and researching this dress!

Six Degrees of Alexander Hamilton: Another Stunning Shogren Creation in “Experience Oregon” Helen Fedchak discusses a new M&A Shogren dress on display in the Oregon Historical Society’s “Experience Oregon” exhibit.

I haven't seen Bridgerton, but this is a really excellent article about corset wearing!

What 'Bridgerton' Gets Wrong About Corsets Women's rights were severely restricted in 19th-century England, but their undergarments weren't to blame

In my other life, I'm a museum curator. Sometimes my two worlds overlap and I get to handle some fantastic costume pieces at work. As a dressmaker, I simply cannot imagine how long this one would have taken to make!

One of the most sparkly items in OHS’s permanent exhibit, Experience Oregon, is a ca. 1900–1910 evening gown designed by sisters May and Ann Shogren of Portland, Oregon. The Shogren sisters dressmaking business, M & A Shogren, was Portland’s haute couture house during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In today's new post on Dear Oregon, Curator of Collections, Helen Fedchak, gives readers a behind the scenes glance at the challenges of working with fragile costumes (think melting sequins!), and provides a bit of history about the sisters who, for over twenty years, operated Oregon’s most significant fashion house.

https://ohs.org/blog/life-is-short-wear-sequins.cfm

Head over to my website for a new blog post about the two corsets I made this year.
https://www.hourglassattire.com/blog