1830s Historic Capsule Wardrobe (1829-1836) Random Research Rabbit Holes

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Today we're streamlining my late 1830s and early 1840s wardrobe to make sure I know what I have and what condition each piece is in.
Let's talk about my 1830s capsule wardrobe.
Hello everyone, my name is Caitlin and I am a living historian,
who trains other living historians,
by teaching them old-fashioned sewing skills and copying original pieces of clothing.
We have seen through my entire living history wardrobe
and I am now so far that we basically reach from the 18th century to the 1880s.
Then we skip a few decades and go from the first to the second world war.
So I have a lot of pieces of clothing and a few things,
of which I have too much and which I can sell and get rid of
or give to a historical city or someone who is just starting.
I also have gaps in my wardrobe, whether you believe it or not.
Things that I need, that I don't have yet and that are on my project to-do list.
It's hard to keep an eye on everything and to know what to do.
So, what I did, is to watch the whole thing on video
and to clean my wardrobe outside of the screen.
In the end, I created a table that says,
here's what I have.
I have to work on that.
I need that now.
Everything that is not in the table,
comes on a stack, which I call cleaning up.
I don't have a lot of storage space,
so it's all about finding storage space.
I also want to make sure that I don't have any bigger gaps,
that really need to be filled.
So, we're going to deal with the early 1830s.
It's actually about the period from 1829 to 1836.
I myself live in Texas.
This is the Texan revolution from 1835 to 1836.
Also, Texas under Mexico, for which we have special events and places,
and that's going to be the early 1830s and the early, late 1820s.
So, I don't do this often enough to have as many pieces of clothing as I need.
A lot of it is about reducing the pieces of clothing that I have,
because in the end, I didn't make as many pieces of clothing from the 1830s,
as I originally thought was okay.
Further east, it gets easier, we do a little more,
but the 1830s are not exactly my favorite time.
And if we're already doing funny things,
then I'd rather be in the 1840s, 1850s, 1860s or 1870s and 1880s.
I only do it because I don't like the clothes.
I like the people who make these times.
So, I meet up with friends.
I take care of the clothes and hang out with friends.
And there are people I like in the 1830s.
Many of them play in other time periods.
So, I don't have to play in the 1830s to see these people.
I'd rather see them in the 1840s and 1850s, which is usually the case.
So, most of my needs in the 1830s come from the working class.
Eh, a little middle class.
Originally, I thought I would be super rich.
I had a figure in mind.
Eh, but in the end, I never really portrayed it.
I portray her daughter.
I portray her niece in the 1860s.
Or at least I did that earlier, when I did more things in the first person,
which I don't do that often here in Texas.
So, I only wanted to portray the aunt of a normal person,
but I never had the opportunity to do that.
Maybe I'll keep an outfit for her, if the opportunity arises,
but I probably don't need that many.
So, let's start with shoes.
I have a lot of socks.
If you've seen more of these capsule wardrobe videos,
you know that I have so many socks.
I have four pairs of white cotton socks.
Some of them, however, have holes and are a bit dirty.
I just bought two more pairs of Stenson Historical.
So, they are fresh, shiny and new.
I will keep them and only wear them for more beautiful occasions.
The dirty ones I wear for working clothes.
I have two pairs of colorful cotton socks.
A yellow and a brown one.
Two pairs of closed silk socks.
This is made of white silk.
Now, these here are white.
And they have a black pattern on the side.
Great for the 18th century.
Great for the early 19th century.
I have two pairs of plain black silk socks.
They are technically also provided with a strap,
but the strap is also black,
and so it's just hard to see if you don't look closely.
Most people don't look so closely at my feet
when I do Living History,
or at least I hope so,
because you have to look very closely to see the pattern.
And then I have a pair of white wool socks.
These are my most beautiful wool socks.
I would love to get a second pair of them.
I couldn't find them for sale.
I don't know where I got the last pair from, unfortunately.
And I have two pairs of thick wool socks,
which I mainly wear at night,
when it's really cold, and you know, in winter.
So we have a lot of socks.
For the shoes, I have a pair of black pants
made of cotton from American Duchess,
which are just pants.
And then I have dry goods from Amazon.
And I have a black and a white pair.
They're supposed to be light blue,
but they're more like a broken white.
And I colored a pair black.
And I have both the white and the black pair
with ribbons,
so I can tie them up,
very nice in the Regency style from the 1830s.
You see these pretty little slippers.
So these are my beautiful shoes.
And then I have the American Duchess Eliza.
I had them in black and brown.
My brown pair came to the dog a few years ago,
and I didn't take care of it.
They actually have a huge hole at the top.
There's still a lot to be done.
And the black ones are just so used up
that I told myself
that I can't wear them anymore
until I've bent them,
and I don't like that.
So they've been on the pile for a few years now.
Recently, I wore one,
two times when I needed shoes,
and they were more like working shoes,
my American Duchess Emma's,
which can hold up to about 25,
and which you shouldn't wear for the 1830s.
They're perfect,
except for the almond-shaped tip
and not the angular tip
that you saw in the 1830s.
And I would be happy if someone
could make boots out of solid leather
that are good for work,
not like the ones with the upper material wool.
I want solid leather.
I want lacing at the front and an angular tip.
I don't think that's too much to ask,
but apparently it is.
I have an original pair,
and I keep telling myself
that I'm going to make them myself
because I can.
I have the skills for it.
I just don't like doing it.
At the moment, of course,
I'm barefoot, except for the slippers.
So everything that has to do with working clothes.
I'm unlucky
until I patch or sew something.
And then there's the strap.
I have two pairs of self-made strap
that I made out of sheep's wool
from old breeds.
They are knitted and made out of sheep's wool
from old breeds and colored with natural colors
that you can find here in Texas.
And I have a few more straps with stitching.
I'm working on a second pair right now,
but I started with that four or five years ago
and they're still not finished.
So they'll probably be on my stack forever
with things I still have to do.
And then I have a few more elastic straps.
These are straps made of spring steel
that I made for my wedding dress.
These are my super chic specimens,
but I don't wear them that often.
That's it with the shoes.
And now for the underwear.
I don't wear underwear at this time
because my current researches
show that American women
don't really wear them.
As far as I know,
they wore them in England more than in America.
So I hate underpants anyway.
According to my current research,
I just don't wear them.
But of course you have to wear underpants
or shirts.
The terms are now mainly referred to as
Schmese, but there are also a few
underpants from that time
that are no longer wearable.
I have two made of cotton
that were made according to the Workman's Guide pattern.
That's a little older,
but the book was published in 1838
and then reissued in the 1840s.
So it's still a style
that could be used,
even if it's not very common
and not the most beautiful.
But I have two made of cotton,
one of linen and a second of linen
I've already cut.
But I don't know where the pieces are right now.
I would really like to rework that,
because I really like this linen Schmese.
It's so beautiful and soft,
and I copied it exactly for one of my originals.
I would really like a second of it,
but I have to find the pieces,
and I won't cut any more linen,
because I don't want to waste any linen
if I know that I've already cut the pieces.
I have two corsets.
I have a work corset and a chic one.
My chic one is a little too big for me.
It closes at the back,
and I don't want to have to take out
the back of the corset.
Besides, it's somehow covered with wax at the moment.
So I still have to fix that.
And then of course I have to sew it again.
But my work corset is good.
I can still wear that.
I even like that.
So I have a usable corset for this time.
For undergarments, I have an undergarment
made of wool flannel that I can wear
when it's really cold.
I have a chic, embroidered undergarment
that is exhibited in my husband's museum.
So I don't really have access to it,
but I could tear it from the show window
if I really wanted to have it for an event.
And I have a simple white undergarment
that is really nice.
I have a chic one, one for cold weather
and then another one that just fits.
I think that fits great.
So I don't have too much.
In other periods of time, I have so many undergarments
that I just use them as quickly as possible.
That way I don't have to replace them
because I have so many undergarments.
It wasn't a big problem
when I had six undergarments for the 1860s
because I only worked on this period.
But the more I deal with what I do
and the periods I work on,
the tighter the storage space gets
if you consider that my undergarments
from the 1850s and 1860s
can be sewn mechanically,
but I don't sew pieces from the time
before 1850 with the machine.
So all of these undergarments have to be sewn by hand.
The undergarments from the 18th century
have different shapes and designs,
and the way they are made
differs from those from the 1830s.
Regency undergarments can't be that wide.
So I have to have another undergarment
for every single period of time
for which I used so much white cotton
in this house.
I use white cotton like no one else.
I swear, I just bought 45 meters of white cotton
and I'm done with it.
Yesterday I had to buy more.
I had to buy another 45 meters.
It's ridiculous how much white cotton
I use in my life,
but for the 1830s I'm at least pretty good.
I just have the one for warm weather.
I have a chic and simple version.
The simple version needs some work.
I used a forestitch for the hem,
which would not have been attached.
It falls out because it's not attached again
and I didn't do it right.
So I have to take the hem out and make a new one.
But that's not a big deal.
It takes about two minutes.
It can go into the flick basket
and I have a good coat again.
I also have a hand-woven corduroy coat
that's not fantastic, but it works.
One day I'll put yarn on the weaving chair
and make a nice coat out of real corduroy.
At the moment I have a day blanket on the weaving chair,
so that's going to take a while.
And one day I will come to the self-tensioning fabric
that we started with last year.
Um, I just used the wrong thread.
And now I'm thinking about
whether I should use it for something else
and change it to a thicker cotton thread.
I think I should do that.
I just don't want to deal with it.
But at some point we will sew
a few knotted underpants.
I think it would be a good idea
to do that.
And then I have a monochrome underpant
a one-piece underpant
that has pockets according to the instructions.
And then I have a brown wool underpant
and a colored wool underpant.
And I use them for the working class.
And I use them until the 1870s
because they are hand-sewn
and you can use hand-sewn fabric
until the 1860s.
Um, well, I say 1870,
so exactly 1870.
Then I use the pumpkin wool underpant
that I have.
This one really accompanies me
from around 1825
to at least 1865,
which I really appreciate.
It's just nice to have something
that lasts so long
without ever having to change it.
The yellow underpant is or the colored one.
The yellow colored underpant
is exhibited in my husband's museum.
So I don't have it directly at hand,
but I can get it if I need it.
I also have the brown wool
and then I have two pairs of pockets
that you can use to tie.
I have a set,
that's my plain cardboard set
and it's two pockets,
but they're smaller and they're attached
to separate bands,
so I can either wear one or two.
Normally I wear two,
but I also have the option
to only wear one if I really want to.
The other pair is a patchwork pair
that I love.
These are my beautiful pockets.
They are much larger.
They offer more space
and are attached to a single band
so that I can wear them more easily.
And I think it's very practical
to always have them at hand
and not have two separate pockets,
even if I don't use both pockets.
I'm probably going to get rid
of the smaller pockets
because I just don't wear them.
I have the feeling
that I should keep them
just because they're simpler.
They would be really great
for the working class
if I didn't carry too much with me.
I haven't gotten around
to throwing them away,
stacking them,
but I tend to do that.
And as far as nightwear is concerned,
I have a nightgown from the 1830s
from the work woman's guide
and a matching nightcap.
So that's it with the underwear.
And now to the clothes.
I have several clothes
from the 1830s
that I'm going to get rid of most of.
I have to start
to combine some of them.
So I have two cotton dresses,
eh, the brown-blue pattern,
that's probably my favorite
dress from the 1830s.
I wear that 95%
when I wear 1830s style clothes.
I love this dress so much.
And then I have a purple pattern
that I'm going to make
into children's clothing
because it's an appropriate process.
I've only worn the dress twice,
so it's basically brand new.
I would almost like to wear it more often,
so it's a little more realistic
to reduce it for children's clothing,
but you've also bought a used dress
and you think,
oh, I can make two or three children's clothes out of it.
You know, something like that happens too.
So I think so.
Yeah, I think we'll just cut it
because I don't wear it or need it.
And the pattern is honestly so small
that it's perfect for children's clothing.
So I think that would be ideal.
And then the pattern.
So the blue-brown with the pattern.
That has a high collar at the moment.
I want to make it shorter.
I want to make it deeper
because I often wear it for work.
I can always cover it with a blouse.
I have a matching blouse
so that it can always be closed up
if I want to have it closed up,
but I can also take off the blouse
and have a deeper collar
or I could pull a transparent blouse over it
when it's warm.
There are so many possibilities
when I have this deeper collar.
I copied an original that had a high collar,
which is why I decided to do it last time,
but I think that's just for me
and the fact that I could make the collar
shorter, more versatile.
I think I'll do that in the next few months.
I also have a linen dress
that I dyed in my garden with indigo by hand.
I don't wear it and think
I should sell it.
It's also one of those things
that I put so much extra work into.
It's a little patchy on the dyeing paper
because I wore it in the rain.
Apparently I didn't rinse it out
as well as I should have
the first time.
So it's one of those things,
do I want to get rid of it?
Should I not?
Should I cut it up for children's clothes?
What do I want to do with it?
Still undecided,
but not anymore in my 1830s wardrobe.
I'm going to do something with it.
I just haven't decided what I'm going to do with it.
I also have a blue wool dress.
Blue is my favorite color.
Obviously for my wardrobe from the 1830s.
I have a lot of blue clothes,
but my blue wool dress,
but my blue wool dress is probably
my second favorite dress from the 1830s.
When it's cold, I wear that.
It looks fantastic,
no matter what dress I wear.
It's just a beautiful dress.
It also has a matching color
that I can vary the look with.
And it has a deep cut,
so I can dress it up with a dress.
I can wear a shirt,
a transparent fabric,
or a belt.
It's one of those dresses
that I can wear for both the working class
and the upper middle class,
if I want to.
I just change the accessories,
which is one of the reasons
why I like this dress so much.
And then I have my brown silk dress,
which I love, because it has all these
hem edges.
It took forever,
but I just don't wear it,
because I don't wear fancy
things for the 1830s.
I might keep it for a
wealthy 1830s look.
The other part of me thinks,
we're going to get a city motif
from the 1840s in Vogue,
which is only about one and a half
hours away from me.
So,
I could keep it as an 1830s
dress and then maybe never wear it again
or just once a year.
Or I can take the dress apart
and turn it into a dress from the late 1830s,
with the lowered sleeves,
and so I could still
keep the sawtooth edge,
because it was also popular
in the late 1830s.
I've seen a few dresses.
I can think of one from red silk,
which is from the late 1830s,
from the early 1840s,
and I only have one dress
from the late 1830s.
So there would be a gap.
I could still keep all my work
and all I would have to do
would be to simply change the top
a little bit and then clean the sleeves.
That would be a really funny video
about how to sew or update a dress,
because that's what they did back then,
especially with wool and silk.
They would take the clothes apart
and they would adjust them
and I've heard twice that it happens every two years.
I've also heard it happens every season.
I think it depends on who you are
and how fashionable you want to be.
A two-year-old dress was
recently taken apart and sewn.
There was the longest time
between new dress versions.
So we're talking about
even the poorest two years
no longer quite in, out of fashion
do not quite fit,
because fashion and style are different.
So there are things that are in fashion
but you don't have to be super fashionable, if that makes sense.
So it wouldn't be more than two years out of fashion, without necessarily taking a step with the facts, no matter how poor you were.
That's how it worked in the 1830s, most civilized people did it that way.
So for me it would be to sew this dress again, which in my opinion would be a lot of fun.
I think that would be a really good video, because it's like a beautiful silk dress, and I have so many quotes from the time about how to sew clothes again and how it all works.
So I could definitely do that.
You could also turn it into a dress of the 1840s.
So I don't have a silk dress from the 1840s.
I have a transparent silk skirt, I could use that as a 1840s silk.
And then it would be more fitting to use this brown silk, which I currently have, for the early to late 1830s.
So I think I'll probably do that.
That would be a really funny video.
I think that's how it worked back then.
That's it.
And then my costume, which I would keep if I got super rich.
I have a black evening dress made of silk, which is probably finished by the 7th of August.
I think the only thing I still have to do is that we had to sew it on the back, because I wore it once and didn't have any hooks and eyelets in it.
So I have to do that again.
I think the sleeves were tight and I have to cut them again or adjust the sleeve size.
And then there's something else I have to do.
Did I write it down?
Yes, put the sleeves on properly.
Put the hooks on the back nicely.
Okay, then I guess I don't have to do anything else.
One day I'll get it out and finish it.
Because I think that would be a beautiful dress.
And that will one day be my pretty costume for the 1830s.
I still have a cotton ball scissor, started, but never finished.
But I don't know if I'll ever get it done.
I could maybe turn it into a dress from the late 1830s.
I'm going to do more from the late 1830s.
I haven't thought about that yet.
Because then I'd have a cotton ball dress, a silk dress and then a cotton ball dress.
I think that's a good plan.
Let's do that.
Okay.
And I also have my coat from the 1830s for this time.
I love my ruches.
It's pink.
It's pretty.
It has the snake pattern that I love so much.
So that's it for the clothes.
I think we're going to end up with a coat, a cotton ball dress, a wool dress and a velvet dress.
And that's what it's supposed to be for the 1830s.
I think that's more than enough for what I'm doing.
Uh, the velvet dress can be very chic.
And I probably won't wear that very often.
But it's a very nice dress.
It's copied from a description that was worn on a ball here in Texas.
So I really want to sew the dress and have it.
And then there would be my two more normal dresses.
One made of wool and one made of cotton.
Both can be very low for the working class or the middle class.
And then there would be my overcoat.
I think that's a really good basis for what I'm doing.
Now to the accessories.
This is another thing that I have to reduce quite a bit because I have so many.
I currently have two ruches.
I have a brown ruch.
I have a brown ruch and a brown ruch and then a blue half ruch.
The half ruch has a huge hole in the neck where I burned it.
So I have to patch that.
But I found the excess fabric for it two days ago.
So in the next patching video, I can explain that.
I own about six pairs of gloves that are suitable for this.
They are made of goat leather in the vintage style.
Gloves from the 1830s usually reach up to the wrist.
I happened to find a whole set that fits me and was on sale in the vintage style.
I paid $30 for everything.
They are all beautiful goat leather gloves.
I have them all.
I have a set of earrings from Gagat that I bought especially for the 1830s.
They are replicas, but they fit.
And then I have a complete evening set with amethysts.
This set includes earrings from the 1830s.
And it has pearls.
The brooch also has pearls.
I usually only wear them when I want to wear bracelets or even a neck chain.
I have a set of a pearl necklace that I wore to my wedding.
And then there are two more sets with bracelets that I could wear if I wanted to.
They would fit the set.
And I'm really looking forward to getting this velvet dress ready,
because velvet and amethyst look really good together.
The set of black velvet and amethyst will look really good together.
I also have a jewelry set of corals.
They are all reproductions.
It contains a cornet, a brooch and bracelets.
Yes, they are broken.
I have to fix them.
When I wore the black velvet dress for the last time,
they always got stuck on a door handle or something and broke.
But I collected all the pearls so that I could fix them without any problems.
The set also includes a neck chain.
I think only the bracelets have to be repaired.
And then I also have a beautiful coral set.
I think a really funny podcast would be historical clothing,
like clothing from the living history perspective,
which I wear every day,
and even accessories.
Because most of my earrings are modern.
So I have about two pairs of modern earrings.
This is one of them,
but I just wear the rest of my historical earrings all the time,
because I have them.
I can use them just as well.
That's where all my jewelry is at the moment.
Back to the accessories.
I have a lot of bracelets.
I think I have pretty much every color of bracelets.
I have yellow, I have two blue tones,
I have red, pink, a chestnut brown,
a black, gray, uh,
I'm sure I forgot the colors I have.
So a lot of bracelets.
I have a black velvet belt
and a green velvet belt.
I have two, I even have three belt buckles
from Assables of the Past.
There is a black one from Japan.
I have a golden one and one with a sign,
but I can't find it.
It's probably on my red silk dress from 1865.
I just have to look for it.
But they all fit in the 1830s.
For the pocket watches,
I have a reproduction of a watch
from the 18th century,
which I think I found
at Sign of the Grey Horse of Etsy.
And then I have a very long watch chain
that really fits in the 1830s.
I have a few smaller watch chains,
but when I wear a watch in the 1830s,
which is more like the bourgeois style,
then I wear this huge chain
that you wrap around.
You can see that on paintings.
I think that looks so great.
And then I actually don't have a sunshade
for this era.
No good.
I use my sunshades from 1837 to 1841
because I only have them.
But I don't use sunshades very often
because I'm more concerned
with working clothes
and don't need them.
I think I might have used
one of my sunshades once
and it's from 1836.
I thought these things
are from the year 1837,
so from the beginning of 1837.
I think that's very close to it,
but it's just not quite right.
One cover is broken.
I have to fix that.
But I have an original sunshade
from the 1830s,
but it has a nearly perfect condition
and the thing is never replaced.
It is never used.
Even if it is exhibited
and I have original sunshades,
they are not fully opened.
They are partially opened
and then I use a rubber band
to fix them so that they hold,
but they are not fully opened
because I don't want to damage the string.
The string is under pressure
and the fabric of sunshades
is strongly demanded
when opening the sunshade.
I can't use the original fabric.
It must not be damaged.
I started years ago with the reproduction
of a sunshade of the 1830s.
I have already found out
I had two walls and I think
I have already found one of them
or I have a friend
whom I explained the problems
and he said, oh, I think
I can get you a part of that.
I think I'm just missing a part
that I haven't figured out
how to get it.
But I can do everything else myself
and as soon as I have found
out a small part,
we will do a long-term project
and make ourselves a few sunshades
from scratch.
I am of the opinion
that you could have done that
in the 1830s with your technology
at the time.
I should be able to do that
at home in the 21st century.
That shouldn't be a problem.
I don't know why it took so long,
but I'm not good at metalworking
and that's exactly where my problems are.
I'm also not really good at welding
or punching metal or the like.
That's what I'm working on right now.
I'm trying to figure out
everything else that I've found out.
I can buy rebar.
I cut my own sunshade strips.
I've actually already done that.
I can make wire strips
for the lower strips.
Of course I can do that with the rope.
I can get wood and bone sticks
for the handles.
I can do everything else myself.
I can get the bone pieces.
I can make the small latch ends.
I can do everything else myself.
I just can't get the metal parts
quite right yet.
So that's what I'm still working on.
I'll let you know when we're ready
because I really want a sunshade
from the 1830s.
And I want to show everyone
how to do that
because there are no good sunshades
from the 1830s on the market
that you could use.
And there are people who probably
do better imitations
that need sunshades.
And to be honest,
I don't think we should bring
original sunshades from the 1850s
to events.
They belong in the 1850s.
I think we can get by
with a sunshade from the early 1840s
because it has a similar shape.
It's more of a last question
and some of the design decisions
and some of the woods used.
But it's better than the sunshade
from the 1850s
that I see at people's events.
So I would like to show people
a few ways
how they can do that themselves.
And then the church towels.
I have a lot of church towels.
I have one-color church towels.
I have printed church towels.
I have colored towels.
I have a striped towel.
I think I have a striped towel.
I think there's another one with stripes.
M. Yes, I have so many towels.
But I use them for many different periods.
So it makes sense that I have so many.
And I have two pairs of work boots
that keep my sleeves clean.
I have two Schmihisettes.
M. Although I want to make a third one
because I want to do some air stitching on it.
I think the book is called
Stick Techniques of the 19th Century
and there is a towel with the stick pattern
that I can do
because I know how to do stitching and air stitching.
So I really want to do that one day.
I think I did a few years ago
when I started with the 1830s.
I don't need that many.
M. I think I will keep two.
I like the pelines that somehow go
and have the little pelines at the bottom.
I think they are enchanting.
I think I will keep the two
that can do that.
The rest is donated or sold
I could have mentioned underwear
but I have several pairs of sleeve supports.
The silk dress already has them
and they just stay in there.
But when I take them out
and cut off the silk sleeves
I only have these two.
I have a pair that can be stuffed.
I have a pair that is filled with downies.
So there are enough sleeve supports
to make these huge sleeves from 1830.
I think I have one of all options.
And as a head cover
I have a sun hat that is okay.
It's really hard for me
to document sun hats from 1830.
I've been looking for about three years.
I can't find any pictures of them.
I can find sun hats from the late 1820s.
They are little silk hats
similar to market hats
that you see in the 18th and early 19th century.
They are made of black or brown silk.
I have seen a few of them
but I can't find any after 1829.
That annoys me a lot
because I can find sun hats
from 1838 and later
and I can find hats
from 1829 and earlier.
But I can't find any sun hats
from that particular time.
That annoys me a lot
that I can't make any information
about their exact period.
I did my best
when I made my sun hat
from 1830.
I can find hints
on sun hats from the 1830s.
So I was able to take
the descriptions of these hats
and then I looked at the sun hats
from the 1820s and 1830s
and I thought
okay, they are now
frankenstein-like sewn together
and match the descriptions.
I did that too.
I don't know
if they are really sewn together.
What I noticed is
that both in the 1820s
and in the 1840s
the crampon is cut diagonally
and most of these hats are made of silk.
I know, that's counterproductive.
We think that hats are great
for extremely poor people
and they were all made of cotton
but many hats were made of silk.
But the crampon is maybe a bit questionable
if that makes sense.
But I did that.
I didn't make a video about it
because it's about assumptions.
It's based on historical evidence
but it's not a historical fact.
I didn't want people to watch the video
and say, oh, that's what they look like.
Because I have no idea
what they look like.
You know what I'm trying to do
is to combine two things
that are a decade apart
to create this little hat
from the middle of the 1830s.
That is something
that I would like to do
a little bit more research on.
I did sell my straw hat recently
which I'm a little bit sad about
because I really like it
but I don't deal enough
with the 1830s
to have as many hats
as I did.
So I gave my blue one
to a friend.
I sold the one made of straw
and now I only have my green one
which is made of straw.
That's my very first spandex
from the year 1830
and I slept all the time
with the green silk hat
and the one made of straw.
And I couldn't decide
which one I should sell
because I knew
that I could only keep one
or should.
And I love this hat
equally.
I think
I just like the shape
of the silk hat
a little bit better.
So I sold the one made of straw
and I'm still a little bit sad
about that.
But I don't need
that many hoods.
So it was a good choice.
I only have one hood
and I needed it.
I only need one hood.
I have three hats
which I sewed
according to the instructions
for craftsmen.
I prefer the one made of net fabric.
I probably wear it 90%.
It's so cool.
It's beautiful.
It needs to be washed.
But it's a beautiful hat.
And now finally
I have three hoods
which I can wear at this time.
I have one
and then I have one with fringes
which is carried.
It's also made of wool.
They are all made of wool.
I had a purple one.
I will shorten it for children's clothing
because it has a beautiful color.
I think it would be really good
for children's clothing.
And I don't need that many hoods.
But I definitely want to keep
a few hoods in my wardrobe.
It's very easy
when new people have to borrow
clothes at an event.
Scarves fit everyone.
But when the weather changes
or someone has just sewn a dress,
many people don't think of
top clothing when it gets really cold.
That's why I want to make sure
that I have a few extras for people
who have to borrow something.
And then I have a brown wool coat
from this time.
It's super cool.
I have a raincoat made of waterproof silk.
I think I talked about that
in the last video about the capsule wardrobe.
It has to be renewed.
I haven't taken it apart yet.
So I'm going to make it.
It's bright pink.
It has to be black or brown
because that's what it was called
at the time, oiled or waterproof silk.
So I have to try to overcolor it.
If the impregnation leads
to it not being able to color,
I have to make it completely new.
So this will be a project for the future.
I have to either repair it or make it new.
I'll probably make it new, to be honest.
And that's it.
This is my wardrobe from the 1830s.
It's not bad.
There are a few things
I need for this era,
but mainly I'm going to separate myself from things.
This is one of those periods
I made here because I thought
I would do a lot more,
just to find out
that I really didn't like the 1830s that much.
My friends would prefer to see me
in other time periods,
let's say the 1840s
didn't like it before, now very much.
Before we go, I'll show you
my table with all the information
for this particular time period.
I mark everything with colors.
If you've seen the other videos
about my capsule wardrobe,
you know that I mark everything with colors.
Green means that the object is ready to wear.
Yellow means that it either needs to be repaired
or in some cases has to be finished.
Red means that something has to be bought
or that I haven't started the project yet.
There is no red in this era,
which is fantastic.
Blue means that it is exhibited in the museum.
I have to mark that
because otherwise I forget it
and have to flip it out because I can't find something
certain that I want to have
and just can't remember
that it is exhibited in the museum.
So I had to mark it blue
just not to go crazy.
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