Cats Costumery | I made a Victorian Waistcoat for the ~aesthetic~ | 1890s vest for everyday historybounding @CatsCostumery | Uploaded March 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Hello everyone and welcome to a new video!
Ever since I made my 1890s (late Victorian) walking skirt, I realised I had enough fabric left over for a matching waistcoat. I was afraid of messing it up, so I kept putting it off, but finally this Winter I decided to tackle it. I used a pattern from the book '59 Authentic Turn-of-the-Century Fashion Patterns' for a jacket and altered it to fit a waistcoat style, or a vest as they seem to have been called. I wanted this to be wearable for every day, without a corset, so I actually fit it over a bra. I got historybounding goals, for whenever we can go outside again.
In the video, I go into detail about the construction, such as lightly covering some tailoring techniques, like adding a canvas layer and padstitching the canvas pad and collar. This isn't quite meant to be a tutorial, more of an outline, since there was a lot of learning for me in this. Particularly, I really fumbled the back of the collar, and as you can see, something that really upsets me about the finished vest is that the front doesn't lay flat. I think this may be for a few different reasons: because I didn't include the side panel, I fumbled the front to get extra width out of it. Maybe the spacement of the buttons and maybe the curviness of the bust without a corset... a lot of maybes. I still find it really comfortable and I love the aesthetic, so I will absolutely be wearing it in my day to day! I also particularly loved wearing this with the matching skirt. I think I need a few more shirtwaists though... and maybe a Hobbit style vest next?
-- THINGS MENTIONED --
1890s walking skirt video youtu.be/bIE-1seJaps
1890s jacket video (more detail on my first tailoring experience) youtu.be/PkZ35XMAKXE
59 Authentic Turn-of-the-Century Fashion Patterns amzn.to/3l6cc1k (I didn't mention this in my video but I did on Instagram stories: heads up about this book, I find it virtually unusable without the tapes included in the Frances Grimble books, like this one: amzn.to/38w1KLy)
Authentic Victorian Dressmaking Techniques amzn.to/30zgjth
-- MORE --
Patreon (exclusive videos), patreon.com/catscostumery
Instagram (perhaps overactive stories): @catscostumery
instagram.com/catscostumery
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/V7V7HRLN
Blog: happilyevertaffeta.wordpress.com
Facebook: facebook.com/catscostumery
-- All Amazon Links are affiliate links! I also have a list of all my useful sewing things here: amazon.com/shop/catscostumery --
For business inquiries, email catscostumery@makrwatch.com
Music is from Epidemic Sound.
Hello everyone and welcome to a new video!
Ever since I made my 1890s (late Victorian) walking skirt, I realised I had enough fabric left over for a matching waistcoat. I was afraid of messing it up, so I kept putting it off, but finally this Winter I decided to tackle it. I used a pattern from the book '59 Authentic Turn-of-the-Century Fashion Patterns' for a jacket and altered it to fit a waistcoat style, or a vest as they seem to have been called. I wanted this to be wearable for every day, without a corset, so I actually fit it over a bra. I got historybounding goals, for whenever we can go outside again.
In the video, I go into detail about the construction, such as lightly covering some tailoring techniques, like adding a canvas layer and padstitching the canvas pad and collar. This isn't quite meant to be a tutorial, more of an outline, since there was a lot of learning for me in this. Particularly, I really fumbled the back of the collar, and as you can see, something that really upsets me about the finished vest is that the front doesn't lay flat. I think this may be for a few different reasons: because I didn't include the side panel, I fumbled the front to get extra width out of it. Maybe the spacement of the buttons and maybe the curviness of the bust without a corset... a lot of maybes. I still find it really comfortable and I love the aesthetic, so I will absolutely be wearing it in my day to day! I also particularly loved wearing this with the matching skirt. I think I need a few more shirtwaists though... and maybe a Hobbit style vest next?
-- THINGS MENTIONED --
1890s walking skirt video youtu.be/bIE-1seJaps
1890s jacket video (more detail on my first tailoring experience) youtu.be/PkZ35XMAKXE
59 Authentic Turn-of-the-Century Fashion Patterns amzn.to/3l6cc1k (I didn't mention this in my video but I did on Instagram stories: heads up about this book, I find it virtually unusable without the tapes included in the Frances Grimble books, like this one: amzn.to/38w1KLy)
Authentic Victorian Dressmaking Techniques amzn.to/30zgjth
-- MORE --
Patreon (exclusive videos), patreon.com/catscostumery
Instagram (perhaps overactive stories): @catscostumery
instagram.com/catscostumery
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/V7V7HRLN
Blog: happilyevertaffeta.wordpress.com
Facebook: facebook.com/catscostumery
-- All Amazon Links are affiliate links! I also have a list of all my useful sewing things here: amazon.com/shop/catscostumery --
For business inquiries, email catscostumery@makrwatch.com
Music is from Epidemic Sound.
