This video has been 6 months in the making, but at last, I show the process of sewing a late 1800s Irish working women's clothing. In part 1 of this series. I took a DNA test to find out about my adopted father's ancestry, as one of my goals is to make historical clothing I can wear day to day from each of my ancestral origins. My father's side has always remained a mystery, but the test revealed that his father was Irish/Scottish, and his mother was most likely Ukrainian.
If you'd like to watch part 1 of the series, here's a link: https://youtu.be/1Ri2ZM3HMeI
Irish fashion in general, especially working class fashion, has very limited information, so I felt this was an incredibly important project on many levels.
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Sources:
Rose Madder:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rubia_tinctorum_-_K%C3%B6hler%E2%80%93s_Medizinal-Pflanzen-123.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Naturally_dyed_skeins.jpg
Madison60, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Lichen:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evernia_prunastri_(24789871845).jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vitt_yllegarn_v%C3%A4xtf%C3%A4rgat_med_orselj_fr%C3%A5n_lav.jpg
Red Skirt Examples:
https://www.ighm.org/learn.html
https://costumesociety.org.uk/blog/post/red-red-women-a-red-galway-cloak-and-an-irish-colleen
https://connemara.irish/news/traditions/shawl
Pampootie Shoe:
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/forget-aran-sweaters-check-out-pampooties-the-original-aran-island-shoe
Soleless Stockings:
https://twitter.com/smhnshybzk/status/1265568479190626306
Barefoot Depictions:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Connemara_Girl.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wishing_Chair_(6600109199).jpg
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/401383385524863473/
Irish Shawls:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/28496558@N02/5072662143
Paisley Scottish Shawls:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shawl_from_Paisley,_Scotland,_c._1850-1875,_Honolulu_Museum_of_Art_837.1.JPG
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:France,_Nimes;_Scotland,_Paisley_or_England,_Norwich,_19th_century_-_Square_Shawl_in_Renaissance_Style_with_Black_Center_and_Quarter_Shawl_Layou_-_2010.144_-_Cleveland_Museum_of_Art.jpg
Galway Shawl:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galway_Shawl_-_View_of_Full_Shawl.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Irish_Galway_Shawl_on_Inisheer.jpg
LynnMGallagher, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galway_Fish_Market_1905.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Catch_of_the_Day_-_Image_Cropped.jpg
Irish Terrain:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hibernia,_Anglia_vulgare_Hirlandia_vocatur_-_map_of_Ireland_by_John_Goghe,_1567.jpg
Mantilla:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Objectes_de_la_Sala_Sec%C3%A0_i_Muntanya_(26914857930).jpg
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/157633
Irish Working Class Fashion 1800s:
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/342344009148062928/
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/115967759134465717/
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/342344009148062928/
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/21392166963525634/
https://ballymaclinton.wordpress.com/category/heritage/
Northern English Working Class Fashion 1800s:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sutcliff23.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sutcliffe11.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sutcliff24.jpg
Simple Construction Garments:
http://fashionablefrolick.blogspot.com/2012/11/threaded-bliss.html
Victorian Working Class Fashion:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Women_working_in_a_match_factory.jpg
https://witness2fashion.wordpress.com/tag/modest-dress-and-social-class-victorian-1860s/
“Victorian Working Women” (book)
#IrishFashion #HistoricalFashion #IrishHistory