u/Ashamed_Swan_5349 — reddlx

1890s chemise fabric

Hello!

I am in the process of making myself a mid 1890s outfit. I’m nearly finished with my corset, and I know I need to make a chemise for the final fittings. I know most chemises were made of white cotton or linen, but here’s the thing.. I’m allergic to cotton! it makes my eczema really bad on my chest, so I know my chemise *has* to be linen.

Unfortunately I don’t have much money right now, and the only linen I have to hand is a warm mid tone grey linen. I can’t afford to buy some in white right now, so it’s either this, or I use a polyester fabric instead, which I’m positive won’t feel nice and will probably look way more inaccurate up close!

So I guess my question is *how* inaccurate is this? I can’t find any surviving examples of a grey chemise, but I also don’t believe that no one ever had or sold one! While I’m not aiming for 100% historical accuracy, if it’s really really inaccurate, I suppose I could either wait and save up money for a white one or try remove some of the grey dye from the fabric?

Pic is for attention btw, it’s from my copy of the reprinted 1897 Sears Roebuck & Co catalogue!

u/Ashamed_Swan_5349 — 14 days ago

▲ 10 r/beachcombing

I found what looks like half the base of a pot/bowl at a beach in the North of England. I know nothing about pottery but thought it looked cool so I brought it home. Does anyone know maybe how old it is based off the glaze? I think there’s maybe a makers mark in the middle, but it’s so worn down I can’t tell. The outside is very smooth but the green on the inside feels kinda grainy and coarse. Thank you :)

u/Ashamed_Swan_5349 — 19 days ago

▲ 1 r/DWPhelp

This isn’t a question, I guess I just thought this was funny and wanted to share/vent. I had my PIP assessment a few weeks ago. I’m applying for peripheral neuropathy, autism, persistent sinus tachycardia and undiagnosed collapses/seizures I have. My doctors have agreed I should not be working and I was advised by multiple people to apply for PIP as I struggle a lot so I did.

The PIP worker I got was a guy who was *super* friendly. I kind of took it with a grain of salt and was a little restrained which I felt bad about because of how nice he was being. He kept saying stuff like “wow, you have so much on your plate, I’m gonna try make this as easy as possible for you” and “don’t worry about this, you have more than enough reasons to get PIP awarded” and even at one point said that “I know how stressful this is so I always try and make it as easy as possible for people applying”.

Then today I got my letter in the post about my assessment.. And I got denied everything but four points for social mixing. I expected this would happen anyway because it really does seem like they just try deny everyone, but it really made me laugh after how overly friendly he was on the phone. I’ll appeal and hopefully it will be sorted some time in the next few months.

I can only assume he hates having to be mean to people so even though he knows he’s gonna fuck them over he just acts friendly during the call. So funny tbh. Has anyone else had this where they had a super friendly person assess them then totally rug pull them??

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u/Ashamed_Swan_5349 — 25 days ago