Class project: ladies wool high-button spats

[labricoleuse]

Another student project, this time a period reproduction of a pair of late 19th c. ladies wool spats...



left: antique spat from our archive
right: reproduction in pumpkin-colored boiled wool by Jacki Blakeney Armit
(note the slight alteration to elongate the area over the vamp to accomodate high heels)


detail of the interior construction and finishing of both pieces


Jacki models her spats with the shoes for which she made them


front view of same

Comments

[ardoise-vide.livejournal.com]

they look like mini-corsets on the inside! :D

they also look crazy cool.

[lovefromgirl.livejournal.com]

That was my first thought too. ;-)