I suspect some of you may be planning to go rather all-out with Challenge #6: Fairytale, so Challenge #7 dials it back just a bit. Challenge #7 (due April 15) is Tops and Toes and focuses on accessories: specifically those that go on top of your head, and on your feet.
So what does that cover? Hats, hoods, headscarfs, caps, coifs, crowns, tiaras, diadems, earrings, eyeglasses, parasols (they go over your head, so we’ll count them) chopines, shoes, slippers, sandals, stockings, and probably a few more that I’ve forgotten!
Here are a few (well, a lot) of pretties to get you inspired as you plan your
Headdress with leaf-shaped ornaments, 2600—2500 b.c.; Early Dynastic period IIIa; Sumerian style Excavated at “King’s Grave,” Ur, Mesopotamia Gold, lapis lazuli, carnelian
Iron Age shoes (ca. 400 BC-400 CE) found on body found in European bog
Hood from Greenland, 14th century, Danish National Museum, Copenhagen
Portrait of Anne d’Alençon, Marquise de Montferrat (1492-1562) daughter of Rene Duc d’Alençon from the House of Valois-Alençon and Marguerite de Vaudemont by Macrino d’Alba . Sacro Monte di Crea, Monferrato, Italy
Women’s fashions, 1570-75, by Lucas de Heere
Coif and forehead cloth embroidered in colored silks and metal threads, interspersed with spangles. Probably last decade of the 16th century
Chopines, 1590-1610, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Hood, ca. 1640, British, Metropolitan Museum of Art 1975.203
Stockings, possibly Spanish, 17th Century, Collection of the Bata Shoe Museum, P96.0101
A pair of women’s slippers, 1730-1750, Museum Weissenfels – Schloss Neu Augustusburg
Pair of Woman’s Shoes, circa 1700-1715, Silver lace, metal sequins, silk satin, leather, LACMA
Men’s coral silk stockings, 1725-1750 meg-andrews.com
Bergere hat, 1760, straw with embroidered decorations,Victoria and Albert Museum
Bonnet, Evening, ca. 1802, American, silk, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Shoes, 1806-15, E. Pattison (British, 1800—1850), Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001.576ab
1815 v13 Ackermann’s fashion plate 13 – Walking Dress with bonnet
Shoes, 1845—60, French (probably), cotton, silk, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wedding bonnet, American, 1860s, silk, MFA Boston, 47.1519
Tiara, Phillips Brothers, 1860-70, V&A
Stockings,1875—99, silk and cotton, French, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986.64.2ab
Slip on court shoes by John Thomas for Henry Marshall, 1883 – 1885, Powerhouse Museum, Australia
Slip on court shoes by John Thomas for Henry Marshall, 1883 – 1885, Powerhouse Museum, Australia
Parasol, ca 1896, French, silk and ivory, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983.102a—e
Folding spectacles of tortoiseshell, probably Chinese, pre 1900, trocadero.com
Cloche, Jardine hats, 1917, LACMA
Shoes, Delman, 1937—39, American, leather, silk, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Can’t wait to see what you make!
pinterest.comhttp://www.pinterest.com/pin/75224256245458767/ The first thing that pops into my head when I think of toe-related accessories are spats, like the ones with this darling cycling suit from 1896-98!
metmuseum.orgSpats would indeed count! 🙂
The ones you posted (here is the proper link: http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/159074?rpp=20&pg=1&pos=1&ft=bicycle+suit&img=1 ) are actually gaiters, because they go further up the leg. They are gorgeous though! Spats are for feet and ankles only, so spats are in, but gaiters are a stretch of the challenge definition!
Makes me think I should do a terminology post about the difference between the two…
Thank you, silly me haha I remembered what they were called right as I pressed the post button! Talk about a “Doh” moment.
I do think a post about the difference would be quite lovely. I am surprised to have not come across one in the Steampunk community. They are all about those foot-coverings.
This looks like an incentive to finally finish my bergere hat.
Or fabric-cover the shoes that look vaguely 40s and that I want to fabric-cover.
Oh, finish the hat! Get a UFO off your pile! Though shoes do sound amazing…
Maybe I’ll manage both; the shoes are an easier project that I might do instead of a more time consuming challenge that I will inevitably drop from… 😀
Neat. 🙂 Cap à la Russe, here I come.
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I adore those black and white shoes! I imagine them being worn with a sweet little pierrot costume.
I accidentally switched these next two challenges so my tops and toes was completed on April 1 instead of fairytale. It is a woman’s Dutch Stephorst hat.
http://calicoclodhoppers.blogspot.com/2014/04/hsf-tops-and-toes-dutch-staphorst-hat.html
Needlebound socks:
http://sewimpossible.blogspot.no/2014/04/hsf-challenge-7-tops-and-toes.html
Gentleman’s Stocking, from Weldon’s Practical Needlework
http://thedreadedseamstress.blogspot.com/2014/04/sew-historical-fortnightly-7.html
http://isabelladangelo.blogspot.com/2014/04/hsf-7-tops-toes.html
My remade shoes!
http://levagabondage.blogspot.com/2014/04/challenge-seven-tops-toes.html
A knitting hat and some souvenir shoes!
Ladies 1880s-inspired Tall Hat
http://makingmakesmylife.blogspot.co.nz/2014/04/sewing-milestone-creating-1880s-outfit.html
wrong link 🙁 one below is correct
Ladies 1880s inspired Tall Hat
http://makingmakesmylife.blogspot.co.nz/2014/04/hsf-challenge-7-in-which-its-awesome-to.html
I trimmed a 1942 black hat with white roses and black ribbon.
Laurie
http://teacupsamongthefabric.blogspot.com/2014/04/black-and-white-world-war-ii-era-hat.html
My blog has moved so my 1942 hat can now be found here:
http://teacupsinthegarden.blogspot.com/2014/04/1942-black-hat-with-white-roses.html
Made myself a pair of 1940’s wedges!!! Here’s the post about them: http://boyerfamilysingers.blogspot.com/2014/04/hsf-7-tops-toes-1940s-peep-toes.html
Newsboy cap
http://foggygardens.blogspot.com/2014/04/tops-and-toes-challenge-7-im-happy-we.html
It’s done, I have completed challenge # 7, Tops and Toes.
http://sewingfromanothertime.wordpress.com
Added late as I didn’t want to spoil the surprise of the item at our annual Easter event.
I made a huik, a cloak worn on the head by women in the Netherlands and Flanders in the 1500s
http://dutchrenaissanceclothing.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/a-huik-heuk-heuke-hoik-or-hoyke-the-netherlandish-duck-billed-cloak/
I also wrote a longer research paper on this item, if you want more information: http://dutchrenaissanceclothing.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/huik-paper1.pdf
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Joining the HSF late! I made a St Birgitta’s Cap. So excited to participate in the rest of the challenges.
http://galienneboivin.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/hsf-7-tops-and-toes/
Super late, but I did make a hat!
https://amodernneedle.wordpress.com/2014/08/03/hsf-7-the-long-delayed-beret/
So extremely late that it’s basically just flirting with the challenges, needlebinded socks going both for Tops and Toes and Under $10.
http://caddamsbetraktelser.wordpress.com/2014/10/13/flirting-with-the-hsf-tops-and-toes-under-10/
http://wandabvictorian.wordpress.com/2014/04/07/hsf-14-7-tops-and-toes/
second entry
http://wandabvictorian.wordpress.com/2014/04/14/now-why-did-i-buy-that/
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