The Ornamented Being
Ornamented: -verb: Adorn; beautify
Be·ing: -noun: Fulfillment of possibilities; essential completeness
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… for once I’m actually at a loss for words.
Fourth quarter 19th century
FrenchMetAnyone want to take a crack at guessing what this was worn for/with?Maybe it’s part of a folk costume? Or part of something worn in a particular region of France? -
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This has to be one of the most beautiful bonnets I have ever come across.
c.1865 - 1870
Summary description
Hat - Made from straw plait 0.5cm wide and handstitched through overlapped plait in a spiral from the crown centre and painted white outer stitching. The head and the side are lined with cream silk and the brim is faced with Venetian pink grosgrain. The brim edge is wired. The hat is trimmed with a band of twisted strip of pink grosgrain with a frill above and below of Honiton lace (two pieces of different quality). There is a cream ostrich feather over the crown. There was originally a black elastic fastening which has been replaced with black velvet ribbon pinned in place. (female)
Provenance
Charles Paget Wade Collection, Snowshill manor
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1860 - 1970
Summary description
Bonnet - Blue-black silk velvet and Venetian pink satin. Fully lined with black tafetta. Stiffened black net with wired edge. Trimmings of loop and tail velvet over crown. Brim and forehead band trimmed with pink cotton rose, rosebuds and russet leaves. Cream machine lace forehead band. Fastenings of long wide ties of dawn pink ribbed silk with black velvet ribbon stripe. To tie under chin. (Probably altered). (female)
Provenance
Charles Paget Wade, Snowshill Manor
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c. 1865-70
Summary description
Fanchon bonnet - Made from yellow satin and silk georgette in rows of box pleats across the bonnet and lined with yellow georgette. It is constructed on a wire frame. The bonnet is edged with machine blond-style lace. There is a satin ribbon bow centre front. There is a bar decorated with cornflowers, poppies, daisies and ferns of coloured, stiffened cotton and feathers. There are yellow satin ribbon ties and false ties of georgette and satin held with satin and lace bow at the throat. There are narrow ties of cream silk fringed ribbon. See SNO.TC.1123/1125. (female)
Provenance
Charles Paget Wade Collection, Snowshill Manor
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ca. 1835
The Met says: The 1830s silhouette was created by a corseted, raised waistline; here a bell-shaped skirt reveals the lower ankle. By the late 1830s, the gigot sleeve was collapsing at the sleeve cap, but in this case, its detachable pelerine, or capelet, sustained the broad triangulated shoulder line of the period. The similarities between men’s and women’s fashion extended to footwear: women could wear flat slippers or tiny booties not so different from the boots and walking shoes of men.
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1871 Walking Dress Victorian Fashion Hat Bonnet Bustle Frame Clothing Accessory
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Casually browsing through some photos when I noticed a bonnet that seemed awfully familiar to me.
I started looking through the Bright Star film stills and realized no wonder I knew that bonnet, I have a photo of me wearing it!
A few months ago I toured a film studio in London and we were given free reign to photograph whatever we wanted. I went straight for the Rococo section and photographed the Marie Antoinette costumes. After fawning over the little girls costume I wondered over to The Young Victoria section.
I had to forcefully pull myself away and get lost in the Regency. I’ve gone through the Bright Star movie stills and after going through my photos I realized I photographed almost all of fanny’s wardrobe!
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If you have been following me for a while you will know that I often like to “create outfits” by mixing together pieces that I find visually pleasing.
I swear these were meant for each other.
ca. 1813
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We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us, loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe, yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!
Queen Victoria
These two items don’t belong to each other but I found them suitable to post together.
The Jacket is by Jacques Doucet, c.1898-1900
The bonnet is from c.1890
The boots are just fabulous and date c.1890-1900
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As I mentioned early Michael O’Connor decided to use extant pieces which is why so many people fell in love with this bonnet.
Why re-create when you can just use the extant piece?
“… Fortunately for O’Connor, there was no shortage of reference materials. He researched all the children’s clothing at a children’s museum in London, and he even found an American Web site that had block prints of original 19th-century patterns, which he ended up using to make Jane Eyre’s final dress—topping it with a shawl original to the time and a bonnet made of straw from the period. “The lining, the buttons, the stitching, everything was totally researched. I always say, ‘Is there a reference for that, is that something they did?’ And if people say [they] don’t know, then I say we can’t do it—there’s so much information from that time that there’s no excuse not to have it.””
”Mia Wasikowska’s Jane Eyre (arriving at Rochester’s estate, Thornfield) wears a dress “made from an imported, printed textile from the U.S.,” and a bonnet “made from beautiful, vintage hat straw [which] we were gifted,” says the Oscar-winning designer.”
