High Style in the Gilded Age: Louisa Robb Livingston

This lecture was done live via Zoom on Thursday, June 25, 2020 at 11am.
Louisa Robb Livingston is the third of the 12 women featured in the Southampton History Museum exhibit, “High Style in the Gilded Age.” Each talk in this live, online series focuses on one of the women. Though married to a hugely successful architect, Louisa Robb Lvingston is never going to be satisfied with a role as compliant wife and helpmate. Always strong-minded, she becomes ever more so as she ages. Opinionated and active in civic, social and political affairs, she is remembered as one of the last of the Old School grandes dames. If you need assistance setting up Zoom, email: [e-mail]. Co-Sponsored with the Rogers Memorial Library.
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[@susanlee1418]

I enjoy all your videos. Thanks

[@serenawilliams6138]

Love these stories but really wish there were more pictures of the characters.

[@slouist]

why hardly any pictures of Louisa?

[@Booka60]

Connor is a jewel.

[@dannybeun948]

Tres tres chic great job & documentary 👌

[@lizabethgussman331]

Satin and lace? Satin is polyester. Shouldn’t that be silk and lace? Satin is a man made fabric.

[@tomedmonds6920]

A History of Satin Weaving
Until the invention of manufactured fibers, satin fabrics were generally expensive to produce because they required large quantities of silk or very fine cotton yarns. (With yarns any thicker, the floats would be so long that the cloth would be too fragile to wear.) In the mythology surrounding silk weaving, the original source of the name for satin has been lost. One suggestion is that is comes from the ancient Chinese port of Zaytoun. Another is that satin was "called sztun until the Renaissance; then the Italian silk manufacturers changed the term to saeta to imply hair or bristle, a term which can be applied to fabrics of this type since they show a hairline and glossy surface" (American Fabrics, p. 198).

[@megenberg8]

if ever you'd examine the actual satin of the past, you would be seriously impressed by the quality and sheen of it, along with its remarkable weight, or volume. one may be surprised to learn that satin was also once produced from cotton. it had a magnificent body and strength to match the supreme elegance of its smooth & soft drape, which shone beautifully in the glow of candlelight and gems, crystal, gilt, and all of the gorgeous & glittering hairstyles of the era long since gone. you see, the exposed side of the fabric was brushed to an absolute polish, giving it real ethereal sensuality! indeed, the eye is yet drawn today in books and museums throughout our world, to the mystifying pleasure of satin as portrayed in countless paintings/portraits of historical personages from the renaissance to now.

[@serenawilliams6138]

Satin is definitely not polyester.

[@jackiking295]

Satin is a weave. You can have silk satin and silk cotton or silk polyester

[@amandab.recondwith8006]

I love the description of The Dreadnaughts!

[@slouist]

actually, NO pictures!