Leather, anyone?

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For your viewing pleasure, I received my handcrafted, supple, and beautiful pocket watch lanyard expertly made by Steve @Duracuir1 today. His craftsmanship and attention to detail is stellar and it makes a fabulous addition to my Hamilton GCT. While I’ve thanked him privately, I do so here publicly. Many thanks, Steve! Well done!
 
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Thanks. Looks good. The inspiration for your lanyard is in this shadowbox with my 18th century watch (shown in the PW thread). And also shown in the pocket watch thread, an early 20th century leather postcard. Is that you @sheepdoll ?
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I do a generation earlier (1840s/1850s.) Those 1890s/1910s corsets look really uncomfortable. The mid century corsets are bad enough. The S curve ones lead to no one wearing such things after the 1920s. One would pretty much have to wear one from a really early age.

A lot of dolls came with corsets too. So it was pretty much a given. Thank god they came up with elastic. Otherwise we would still be using braided rags. Or simply let them drop to the knees.

Doll socks often have clocks. I suspect that much of this fashion look was fantasy anyway. One rarely really sees the S curve look in photographs. Only in fashion magazines. And then by people who are between 15 and 23 years old.

I did get some socks under the tree yesterday. The clocks are shaped as presents.