When I was a teenager I played Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast, and my costume included literal hula hoops in my skirt! During one of the performances, someone was running backstage and accidentally stepped on one of the lower hoops, suddenly bringing my skirt support from my waist to my knees right before I had to go onstage. I was forced to waddle on and try to subtly fix my skirt, all while trying to tell the Beast to calm down.
@WingedElfGirl don't get me wrong, I was decently covered. My overskirt was on correctly, it was the hoop skirt that malfunctioned. I honestly think (hope!) that he (and the audience!) didn't even notice. Slightly unrelated, but I just remembered that one of the hula hoops lit up. You couldn't see it under my skirt and the stage lights, but you could see it faintly in the darkness backstage 😂 what even is community youth theatre
Happy happy birthday!!! I haven’t found/made an ideal skirt padding type for myself yet, but I’ll contribute a general skirt story for amusement 🎉 I used to teach preschool around the same time I was giving up on most pants/shorts ever fitting me comfortably, so I was newly wearing a lot of skirts. I deliberately chose long skirts on teaching days, for lots of easy, erratic movement without showing off my butt! However, toddlers are notorious for not having learned the concept of personal space yet… and I had my whole dang skirt yanked up, or kids crawling under it several times! I started wearing stretch shorts/leggings underneath pretty promptly. 😅😅😅 (Similar general warning for even slightly low-cut shirts when you’re holding lots of toddlers. You WILL get curious hands down your bra, and sometimes even commentary of how you compare to other booby-having people they know.) 😆
That ventilated pad looks neat! I've been pondering ideas to make myself a set of Kimono padding, and since the small of my back is rather hollow, I have to pad that area pretty thickly for proper kimono silhouette, which is so warm and sweaty, but adding in vents like that might help a ton. Thanks for the idea! Also, I love that Morgan Donner made a version of the chair bustle, I'm pretty sure she hasn't worn it anywhere because of how ridiculous it is, but its such a funny concept.
Yeah, how would you even get to the party with one of those, a carriage (or car, nowadays) would be right out. Maybe if you wore it to work, and walked to work from home?
I am contemplating making some skirt supports as I am far more columnar than hourglass shaped, but the one time I have worn a skirt support it was a thrift store hoop skirt worn underneath my wedding dress because crinoline rental would have cost about as much as the hoop skirt did. They told me at the bridal shop when I had some modifications made to the dress that they only charged Bridezillas for crinoline rental, but still. Point of interest, the crinoline type they were renting was pretty much a light cotton petticoat with structure around the bottom hem, very similar to vinyl baseboard material but not as high, so maybe that's the idea with the thing you saw collapsed that only had structure at the bottom? time around 17:00 The hoops in my Value Village hoop skirt were marginally adjustable so I made what I thought was a nice shape, wore it under the dress and everything was awesome, my mom and everyone else had no idea I'd gotten married in my black cowboy boots* until I was doing something ludicrous on the dancefloor during the reception. Also, cowboy boots can double as pockets, my "something borrowed" was a knife I wore in my boot (all the groomsmen got swords and I was jealous), my "something blue" was a ribbon we'd been handfasted with years before at a medieval festival and was wound around one of the boots. * - while planning bridesmaid dresses with my mom, my maid of honour and the mother of my ex bf (who was one of our groomsmen, his mom was our sewing consultant) gave me a half-hour dissertation about how I was not under any circumstances going to get married in cowboy boots, to which I smiled sweetly, kept my mouth shut, and did it anyways, because they're literally the most comfortable footwear I own and I didn't want to be footsore at my own dang wedding!
First Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 Second I spit my tea on my phone laughing at your not kosher comment. That was hilarious! 😂😂 OK so for a skirt support story, not mine but a friend of mine, had a hoop skirt on under her wedding dress. As she was saying her vows somebody's cat hid under her skirt and started playing with her garter. Since nobody could see the cat because of the skirt no one knew why she was acting funny. When she tried to push said feline off her leg it turned around and tried to attack her through her skirt and tried to climb up the inside of the hoop skirt. Eventually the kitty got evicted and ran off but it made for a memorable moment. Way more exciting than when I said my vows.
Izabella on Prior Attire has plenty of getting ready in different era videos in which her cat (Merlin, I think) ends up under her skirts! At one point, she says that cats love Spanish farthingales! 🤣
There’s a similar story in one of LM Montgomery’s books - one of the Emily books? - only it’s not a wedding, just a very staid and solemn Presbyterian church service.
Happy Birthday! Thank you for the delightfully silly and still informative bonus video! While I have very limited experience wearing historical clothing, I do have a mildly funny skirt story: my sister and I were getting ready for prom, and she “forgot” to take off her plush sheep-printed fleece pajama pants before going to the dance! With her beautiful A-line princess dress, it was impossible to tell, and she was surely the most comfortable one there that night (though I don’t remember if she got too hot). She also had a bag of Oreos stuffed into the generous pockets of the dress! I just love the juxtaposition and secret of knowing that she got to wear pajamas to prom. I look forward to applying similar principles of comfort and storage in any future historical sewing attempts of my own.
Happy birthday! So the only false rump story I have is that I made the Simplicity S8162 18th century false rump and I initially thought I would stuff it with shredded fabric scraps. Turns out that shredded fabric scraps are heavy and don't create the smoothest of shapes. I had a saggy and lumpy rump. I ended up changing the stuffing for feathers, which was better, but some of the feathers poke out, which can be rather prickly.
I made Simplicity 8161 & 8162 in blue/black Tartan to wear to a con in Adelaide (South Australia) after promising a guest at NYCC who would be there to finish it in time. The only problem was that with the bumpad, the costume wouldn't fit in my suitcase. So we drove from Melbourne to Adelaide (approx 8hr drive) with the costume on the back seat. The guest didn't even remember my promise 😢. Wearing the bumpad felt like tying a pillow round my waist.
In high school one of my costumes was a giant ball gown, and we built the skirt supports out of PVC pipes, wires, and hot glue. It didn’t have a waistband so we tied it into our skirts, and my dance partner would sit under my skirt and tie it while I held everything at the right height
Happy Birthday Vi! I am tempted to make a fake bum to wear under my regular clothes. I mostly wear skirts and I have no curves so they don’t hang as nicely as I wish. I might also make some hip pads .I mean why not?
Happy birthday! 🥳🎂 For my bustle story: Our wedding ceremony last autumn was in a small chapel in the countryside, and a couple of young cats from a nearby house came to investigate. Since it was a bit cold and windy outside, my enormous skirt (held up by an equally enormous petticoat) was good protection from the elements and I ended up talking to the priest and our families with a cat under my skirt. 😅 At least there wasn't a cat under there during the ceremony, but they came inside the chapel with us for it. Both me and my husband love cats so it felt like a blessing to have them there. 😻
Back when i wore dresses, i had a huge dress with a big hoop skirt underneath. Because it was polyester and i had to wear it outside in the summer, I seriously tried to attach computer fans to the inside with a battery pack to keep my legs cool. Alas, it did not work. Happy birthday! 🎉
Happy 🎉Birthday 🎉! A skirt story (although there's a corset story too for the support category). I forgot my underskirt to my Renaissance gown and didn't discover it until my group was getting ready to enter the festival. And my craziness didn't bring an alternative. So we had to pin my overskirt together, well the only one who knew how todo so without the safety pins being visible was a 6'7" man. So there I (5'5" slender) am in the parking lot with just his legs sticking out of my skirts. The corset story (for giggles) is one morning getting ready for my own Renaissance Festival as a lane character I had just finished adding the hoop / Farthingale and sneezed. Well that sneeze was strong enough to spilt the corset 8" (or so) from a weak point between tabs to almost the top. Thank the gods that dress fit without the support. The next season I bought a new set of stays which are far more comfortable than the split ones.
Happy birthday! This is not my skirt story, but it is amusing. I graduated in 1988. Bubble skirts were a big thing. One of the other girls graduating wore one to graduation. Turns out graduation gowns are not wide enough to smoothly cover a bubble skirt. She managed to pull the graduation gown over it, but it looked odd. Fortunately she found it funny.
The SCA related story - the gentleman Laurel bumps into a lady in grande skirts, and immediately asks (as he tests the skirt support) "Oh, this is fantastic, what did you use to fill the bumroll?" to which she answered, through gritted teeth in a vicious smile, "Flesh."
I need a bustle to go under my wedding dress - currently what I have is a load of wire coathangers - so... I could definitely have a go at making one of the 19-minutes-in ones...
Happy Birthday!🎉🎉🎂🎂🎂🍾🍾🍾🥂🥂🥂🎁🎁🎁👑👑 By the way, two years ago, Morgan Donner made a bustle chair and put it on. Also, thank you for your information about medieval Jewish dress. Recently, I saw a TikTok video about medieval veils where they acted like there were only Christian women wearing them in ways that only reflected Christian beliefs. I was able to use the information you gave to counter that in the comments.
Happy Birthday!! A toast to the roast ... to the BirthdayDragon. I was on a videocall with my friends and when they asked what I was sewing , my answer was "my third butt cheek aka a ventilated bum pad."
I'm having flashbacks to when I was in the Nutcracker as a small child. I played a Bonbon, and we all hid under the dancer's skirt (I cannot for the life of me remember the character's name) and then all came out from under it. There were at least half a dozen of us, and there was a light under the skirt so we could see (and probably not be scared since we were little).
Happy birthday Snappy! I hope it's absolutely wonderful! 🎂🍨🎉 I totally agree with your choices in the fake bum contest, in fact I love that down hoop skirt! Too bad we can't have these in modern times! (Or can we???) Anyway, my funny story: in 1976, when I was seventeen, I did my best with what money I had and created a dress to recreate Elizabeth I for my class on Halloween. Having learned about but never worn a hoop skirt before, I made a sort of half skirt of small hoops and let it go at that. Nobody in the class but me and the history teachers would know it wasn't accurate. Well, having finished my monologue as Her Majesty, I went back out to the class and sat down in the front row and, forgetting to move the hoops correctly, I sat on the hoops and my skirts shot straight up to my thighs!😱 THAT got the attention of the class!😂😂😂 Fortunately, no real peep show so my very red face laughed along with them! I got first prize that day for best costume but I've always wondered if it was because of that!
10:57 I submitted this one, and the museum article states that the fluffy thing is stuffed with a chiffon material. But yay, happy to see that my submission made it into the video.
I've also hidden another person under my skirt! I was at an anime convention dressed as Anthy from Utena and we needed to have another cosplayer have a secret entrance partway through the event, so we stuck 'em under my hoops and I stood quietly in the back until it was time to have them come out.
14:10 the funny thing is that this has come back in a way! The Noonee chairless chair is a leg harness that is for people behind counters or at tables or in factories etc that lets you sit without needing a seperate chair/stool (i want one so bad Dx )
Oooo! Wish I'd had that when I was working retail &/or at the sewing factory as a teen! (We were standing all day on concrete floors with just a thin rubber mat in certain areas.)
Happy Birthday 🎉. This was such a fun video ❤ My wedding story time ❤ I had an enormous hoop under my dress. At one point in the reception, all the kids in attendance hid under my skirts. 😂
The brown single hoop from the MET: Are we sure it's not one of a pair? It looks to me like one of a pair of hip flare supports one would wear with a pair of voluminous "bloomers" or divided skirts to flare out the tiny peplum skirt at the hips. OK so it totally looks like the pair my Great Gran wore with her full length bloomers in pictures.
Happy birthday and many happy returns! Every time I hear about padding and creating a silhouette with undergarments I always wonder, why especially celebrities are going through with plastic surgery instad of simply using padding and structured undergarments.
Plenty of them do use structural undergarments (what else are Spanx and push-up bras?). But modern clothing often has less structure or coverage to hide padding under.
Happy biiiiirthday!! ❤️ Thoroughly enjoyed the video. I feel a little under the weather so the laugh was just what I needed. Thank you! Little linguistic lesson: it's "Weiberspeck" ("ie" is pronounced "ee", but "ei" is like English I in German. So, "viber-spec") 😁
Happy birthday, Vi! May you live as long as you want to, and want to as long as you live. I would definitely wear the duvet petticoat, especially in the colder months, but I prefer to wear wool and wrap myself up in blankets and/or duvets most of the year, so I might not be the most representative in this regard. Btw, it should be “Weiberspeck”, as “Weib” means “woman, wife”, whereas there’s no word spelled “Wieb”, “Wiebe” or “Wieber” anywhere in the German dictionary. (This also means that the pronunciation is off, since you were going off of the misspelling.)
I they meant "Weiberspeck", the "w" is pronounced like "v" in English and the "ei" like "eye". Weib is a somewhat old-fashioned and derogatory term for woman, Weiber is the plural. In this context, I would probably translate "Speck" as "blubber" rather than "bacon" because it means a deposit of body fat around the hips. Love handles, basically. Oh, and Happy Birthday!!!
I have in the past made a bustle similar to the 1871 MET one with many hoops. It was very heavy, lots of engineering to get it right (which I didn't) but also very stylish under the dress. Sitting in it... not so easy though.
Omg Weiberspeck is one of my favourite words Speck usually refers to Bacon but it can also mean the fat part of any meat In this specific case the lovely fat around the hips and thighs Tbh I use Weiberspeck quite often and the only synonym of this part of the body would be 'thass' (= part between the thigh and ass , at least that's what I picked up from the internet) Thanks for this unexpected but cool info and new perspective on (my) use of language
i was at a combination Ren Faire/SCA/Steampunk get together and there was a sudden rainstorm and mild flooding some of the ladies in the hoopskirts just pulled their skirts over their heads from behind and hefted the fronts up to make it to the shelter without getting their hems wet when they dropped their skirts inside they started singing Carol of the Bells and driving their skirts to-and-fro
The bustle chair had a cameo in one of Courtney Milan's most recent books, The Devil Comes Courting, set in 1870s China. (If you like funny, well researched, non-tokenizingly diverse, medium spicy romance, I cannot recommend her enough)
Happy birthday. I make myself a quilted skirt to wear indoors, from those quilted strips you put on the bottom of beds etc. It's so cosy, and if I put a skirt on top, would hold it out, not quite as much as this one in the video though.
The mesh bustle pad and the last spiral coil bustle remind me of the American folktale of Pecos Bill and Slue-foot Sue--the latter wearing a steel-spring bustle when she attempts to ride Pecos Bill's horse Widowmaker on her wedding day. She's bucked off, and bounces all the way to the moon when she lands on her bustle (this per the Disney version, at least). Also--funny Halloween bum roll story. A friend and I made an Elizabeth I gown one Halloween for her daughter (also an Elizabeth) when she was 6 or 7 years old, complete with bum roll (which we may or may not have manufactured out of a dryer hose--memory fails). After the town Halloween parade, we took her out for fast food. It was a Hardees with molded plastic banquettes. She hopped up onto the bench, bounced off the back because of the bum roll, and face-planted onto the table. Only a few tears, more from surprise than from pain.
When the quilted petticoat appeared on the screen, my first reaction was "Oo, that looks COZY!" (I live north of Boston) Looks like something that would be great to wear for sleigh rides or caroling. I have unfortunately not had the occasion to wear a bustle, except for the bustling that was done to my wedding gown, which was mostly to keep the train from dragging in places it shouldn't. Which is of course not remotely the same thing. I keep wanting to try the chair-bustle.... but... hmmm.... I mean, if some of those pad bustles help with low back pain, that might be a very good idea to invest in one.....
Really wish I could have caught this live! And not just because the alternative was oral surgery, lol, but at least it was a good distraction after. Thanks for such a funny and informative video!
as a german, I would actually translate "Weiberspeck" as "women's fat" (as in body fat). Speck does mean bacon, but it's often used as a slang term for someone's body fat, in an unflattering, mean-spirited way. kinda like one might call someone a "tub of lard" in english.
there a cartoon about a cowboy and a frontier lady and she... falls off of something? and she bounces higher and higher on her bustle until she bounces out of sight i wish i could remember what if was - it wasn't Bugs Bunny - anyone remember?
Morgan Donner made one of those chair bustle 🤣 Belated Happy Birthday ! Mine is in 4days. Great video, didn’t know there were so many different kinds of bustling choices 🤣😂🤣
OMG, I want a quilted down petticoat. That would be so warm in the winter. I would hardly need a coat! Which is good because probably very few of my coats would fit over it.
I usually do early medieval or occasionally Roman costuming where it's simple geometric construction and little to no understructure, but after seeing all these I feel like I need to make some sort of outfit that would include bum padding for the fun of it, love the shapes that these create in the skirts!
Perhaps I could go for one of those 16th centuryish ones like your ren fair outfit, it's unfamiliar but much closer to my comfort zone than Victorian tailoring!
What, no French Farthingale? I think I would rate them donkey. They're more unflattering and awkward-looking than a bum roll, but you can dance in them, so they must not be too impractical to wear.
So I love wearing skirts but even without a single Petticoat underneath I am not to be trusted with them. I routinely knock things off the coffeetable or get them caught on something. Just today I had to clean a coffeestain on my rug because my skirt sweped a mug off the table. 😂
This is more a "wtf material choice" story. Inspired by the tetanus bum. A friend was a furry before the internet. This meant he didn't have a good tutorial to follow. He made his fursuit head out of barbed wire. Anyone other than him would get their eyes gouged if they put it on
Morgan Donner constructed the chair bustle pad a while back, not practical for getting in a car and looked weird to be sitting in an "invisible" chair.
I hope you have a great birthday! Those rumps were magnificent to look at and the last looks more like a phallic shape to me, interestingly enough... Man, I gotta get my mind out of the gutters!
I'm making an 1880s pad (like the one you wore in the video about your ancestor Carolina in NY in 1881), and was looking for something to watch while sewing. This seems like the perfect video! 😂
OK I was amused and enjoying this video until you came to the chair bustle and you got me laughing because you just created a visual there and I was feeling it😂
Hi, A belated happy birthday. I hope that it was a good one. I highly enjoyed the bustle ranking. I've never really paid that much attention to those things, because I'm not a costumer, myself so this was a new way of thinking for me. Thank you. Yours, Ann
Growing up, “historical underwear” was a major interest and hobby of my mom’s; in fact, that’s what got me into historical fashion. The waterfall hoop bustle is exactly the kind of stunning garment that would get one into historical underwear, I think!
Inflatable hoopskirts sound so uncomfortable to sit on. Those false rump cusions though? They look comfier when you need to sit down, they're like a second cushion lol.
Love your content, fun and serious both, but this video helped me realize why I don't always have the energy to watch your videos. The cuts mid-sentence, to keep the presentation on track, are a startle that my executive dysfunction has trouble coping with. Even a split second of silence, about the length of taking a breath, would make the thread of thought easier to keep up with on my bad days. Love the channel, and the enthuseasm and effort you put into both entertaining and educating.
No funny skirt story, but you bringing up the chair bustle reminded me of the @morgandonner video where she actually made on. The main problems she had was trying to sit in a car and having the legs of it bumping into the back of her legs. But walking around her local mall made it easier to find a place to sit.
I bet that last one was built for travel. The coils could probably be laid flat with a little shifting and the sides folded in to make a nicely compact item to fit in a middle-class woman's travel trunk
Let's put this in a pinned comment too : KISS MY BUSTLE merch is here! snappydragonstudios.myshopify.com/
Lady’s Brisket should be the kosher version of a Lady’s Ham. Or Butt Challah.
Butt challah 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I vote for this one 🤣🤣🤣🤣
BUTT CHALLAH
you might just win the comments section.
OH Dang! I was just about to recommend Lady’s Brisket!
But Butt Challah is amazing!!
Butt challah for the win! 😂😂😂
You win! 🏆
I kind of need “I’m not the fake bum police” on a t-shirt.
Next merch design? 😁
That’s definitely the pull quote from this episode! 🤣
@@SnappyDragonplease?
69th like on this comment! Hell yeah! 😂
When I was a teenager I played Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast, and my costume included literal hula hoops in my skirt! During one of the performances, someone was running backstage and accidentally stepped on one of the lower hoops, suddenly bringing my skirt support from my waist to my knees right before I had to go onstage. I was forced to waddle on and try to subtly fix my skirt, all while trying to tell the Beast to calm down.
Oh no! Hula hoops =/= hoop wire, for sure.
Oh noooo!! 😆 Beast should have just improv’d for a moment to let you get your skirt back on, haha!
@WingedElfGirl don't get me wrong, I was decently covered. My overskirt was on correctly, it was the hoop skirt that malfunctioned. I honestly think (hope!) that he (and the audience!) didn't even notice.
Slightly unrelated, but I just remembered that one of the hula hoops lit up. You couldn't see it under my skirt and the stage lights, but you could see it faintly in the darkness backstage 😂 what even is community youth theatre
Happy birthday! Morgen Donner did a video that shows the construction of the bustle chair. Really interesting and silly at the same time.
it's a good time! thanks for the birthday wishes 💚
I came here looking for this message 😊 glad you got here first
Happy happy birthday!!! I haven’t found/made an ideal skirt padding type for myself yet, but I’ll contribute a general skirt story for amusement 🎉
I used to teach preschool around the same time I was giving up on most pants/shorts ever fitting me comfortably, so I was newly wearing a lot of skirts. I deliberately chose long skirts on teaching days, for lots of easy, erratic movement without showing off my butt! However, toddlers are notorious for not having learned the concept of personal space yet… and I had my whole dang skirt yanked up, or kids crawling under it several times! I started wearing stretch shorts/leggings underneath pretty promptly. 😅😅😅
(Similar general warning for even slightly low-cut shirts when you’re holding lots of toddlers. You WILL get curious hands down your bra, and sometimes even commentary of how you compare to other booby-having people they know.) 😆
That ventilated pad looks neat! I've been pondering ideas to make myself a set of Kimono padding, and since the small of my back is rather hollow, I have to pad that area pretty thickly for proper kimono silhouette, which is so warm and sweaty, but adding in vents like that might help a ton. Thanks for the idea!
Also, I love that Morgan Donner made a version of the chair bustle, I'm pretty sure she hasn't worn it anywhere because of how ridiculous it is, but its such a funny concept.
Yeah, how would you even get to the party with one of those, a carriage (or car, nowadays) would be right out. Maybe if you wore it to work, and walked to work from home?
I am contemplating making some skirt supports as I am far more columnar than hourglass shaped, but the one time I have worn a skirt support it was a thrift store hoop skirt worn underneath my wedding dress because crinoline rental would have cost about as much as the hoop skirt did. They told me at the bridal shop when I had some modifications made to the dress that they only charged Bridezillas for crinoline rental, but still. Point of interest, the crinoline type they were renting was pretty much a light cotton petticoat with structure around the bottom hem, very similar to vinyl baseboard material but not as high, so maybe that's the idea with the thing you saw collapsed that only had structure at the bottom? time around 17:00
The hoops in my Value Village hoop skirt were marginally adjustable so I made what I thought was a nice shape, wore it under the dress and everything was awesome, my mom and everyone else had no idea I'd gotten married in my black cowboy boots* until I was doing something ludicrous on the dancefloor during the reception. Also, cowboy boots can double as pockets, my "something borrowed" was a knife I wore in my boot (all the groomsmen got swords and I was jealous), my "something blue" was a ribbon we'd been handfasted with years before at a medieval festival and was wound around one of the boots.
* - while planning bridesmaid dresses with my mom, my maid of honour and the mother of my ex bf (who was one of our groomsmen, his mom was our sewing consultant) gave me a half-hour dissertation about how I was not under any circumstances going to get married in cowboy boots, to which I smiled sweetly, kept my mouth shut, and did it anyways, because they're literally the most comfortable footwear I own and I didn't want to be footsore at my own dang wedding!
First Happy Birthday 🎂 🥳 Second I spit my tea on my phone laughing at your not kosher comment. That was hilarious! 😂😂 OK so for a skirt support story, not mine but a friend of mine, had a hoop skirt on under her wedding dress. As she was saying her vows somebody's cat hid under her skirt and started playing with her garter. Since nobody could see the cat because of the skirt no one knew why she was acting funny. When she tried to push said feline off her leg it turned around and tried to attack her through her skirt and tried to climb up the inside of the hoop skirt. Eventually the kitty got evicted and ran off but it made for a memorable moment. Way more exciting than when I said my vows.
Under-skirt kittens are an adventure indeed. I'm gonna be in for it if I get cats!
Izabella on Prior Attire has plenty of getting ready in different era videos in which her cat (Merlin, I think) ends up under her skirts! At one point, she says that cats love Spanish farthingales! 🤣
@@kerriemckinstry-jett8625 yes I love Merlin. He is such a stinker 🤣🤣
There’s a similar story in one of LM Montgomery’s books - one of the Emily books? - only it’s not a wedding, just a very staid and solemn Presbyterian church service.
Happy Birthday! Thank you for the delightfully silly and still informative bonus video! While I have very limited experience wearing historical clothing, I do have a mildly funny skirt story: my sister and I were getting ready for prom, and she “forgot” to take off her plush sheep-printed fleece pajama pants before going to the dance! With her beautiful A-line princess dress, it was impossible to tell, and she was surely the most comfortable one there that night (though I don’t remember if she got too hot). She also had a bag of Oreos stuffed into the generous pockets of the dress! I just love the juxtaposition and secret of knowing that she got to wear pajamas to prom. I look forward to applying similar principles of comfort and storage in any future historical sewing attempts of my own.
I wonder if the “ridge” bustle pad was made to fit under one specific dress? Perhaps something made of silk taffeta with puffy bits.
It could, maybe! That's about the only way I can see it not looking very strange.
Happy birthday!
So the only false rump story I have is that I made the Simplicity S8162 18th century false rump and I initially thought I would stuff it with shredded fabric scraps. Turns out that shredded fabric scraps are heavy and don't create the smoothest of shapes. I had a saggy and lumpy rump. I ended up changing the stuffing for feathers, which was better, but some of the feathers poke out, which can be rather prickly.
I made Simplicity 8161 & 8162 in blue/black Tartan to wear to a con in Adelaide (South Australia) after promising a guest at NYCC who would be there to finish it in time. The only problem was that with the bumpad, the costume wouldn't fit in my suitcase. So we drove from Melbourne to Adelaide (approx 8hr drive) with the costume on the back seat. The guest didn't even remember my promise 😢. Wearing the bumpad felt like tying a pillow round my waist.
In high school one of my costumes was a giant ball gown, and we built the skirt supports out of PVC pipes, wires, and hot glue. It didn’t have a waistband so we tied it into our skirts, and my dance partner would sit under my skirt and tie it while I held everything at the right height
Happy Birthday Vi!
I am tempted to make a fake bum to wear under my regular clothes. I mostly wear skirts and I have no curves so they don’t hang as nicely as I wish. I might also make some hip pads .I mean why not?
Indeed, why not?
Happy birthday! 🥳🎂
For my bustle story: Our wedding ceremony last autumn was in a small chapel in the countryside, and a couple of young cats from a nearby house came to investigate. Since it was a bit cold and windy outside, my enormous skirt (held up by an equally enormous petticoat) was good protection from the elements and I ended up talking to the priest and our families with a cat under my skirt. 😅
At least there wasn't a cat under there during the ceremony, but they came inside the chapel with us for it. Both me and my husband love cats so it felt like a blessing to have them there. 😻
Back when i wore dresses, i had a huge dress with a big hoop skirt underneath. Because it was polyester and i had to wear it outside in the summer, I seriously tried to attach computer fans to the inside with a battery pack to keep my legs cool. Alas, it did not work.
Happy birthday! 🎉
I wonder how long it tuchus to burst out laughing from all the puns
Happy 🎉Birthday 🎉!
A skirt story (although there's a corset story too for the support category). I forgot my underskirt to my Renaissance gown and didn't discover it until my group was getting ready to enter the festival. And my craziness didn't bring an alternative. So we had to pin my overskirt together, well the only one who knew how todo so without the safety pins being visible was a 6'7" man. So there I (5'5" slender) am in the parking lot with just his legs sticking out of my skirts.
The corset story (for giggles) is one morning getting ready for my own Renaissance Festival as a lane character I had just finished adding the hoop / Farthingale and sneezed. Well that sneeze was strong enough to spilt the corset 8" (or so) from a weak point between tabs to almost the top. Thank the gods that dress fit without the support. The next season I bought a new set of stays which are far more comfortable than the split ones.
There’s one advantage of the rubber hoops - the smell of sulphur would mask any… ladylike passing of wind. 😂
Happy birthday! This is not my skirt story, but it is amusing. I graduated in 1988. Bubble skirts were a big thing. One of the other girls graduating wore one to graduation. Turns out graduation gowns are not wide enough to smoothly cover a bubble skirt. She managed to pull the graduation gown over it, but it looked odd. Fortunately she found it funny.
The SCA related story - the gentleman Laurel bumps into a lady in grande skirts, and immediately asks (as he tests the skirt support) "Oh, this is fantastic, what did you use to fill the bumroll?" to which she answered, through gritted teeth in a vicious smile, "Flesh."
Never grab a bumroll without consent...
"My own ass."
I need a bustle to go under my wedding dress - currently what I have is a load of wire coathangers - so... I could definitely have a go at making one of the 19-minutes-in ones...
Happy Birthday!🎉🎉🎂🎂🎂🍾🍾🍾🥂🥂🥂🎁🎁🎁👑👑 By the way, two years ago, Morgan Donner made a bustle chair and put it on. Also, thank you for your information about medieval Jewish dress. Recently, I saw a TikTok video about medieval veils where they acted like there were only Christian women wearing them in ways that only reflected Christian beliefs. I was able to use the information you gave to counter that in the comments.
Happy Birthday!! A toast to the roast ... to the BirthdayDragon.
I was on a videocall with my friends and when they asked what I was sewing , my answer was "my third butt cheek aka a ventilated bum pad."
I'm having flashbacks to when I was in the Nutcracker as a small child. I played a Bonbon, and we all hid under the dancer's skirt (I cannot for the life of me remember the character's name) and then all came out from under it. There were at least half a dozen of us, and there was a light under the skirt so we could see (and probably not be scared since we were little).
I’ve seen her called Mother Ginger (and her children “Polichinelles”) or Madame Bonbonniere.
Happy birthday Snappy! I hope it's absolutely wonderful! 🎂🍨🎉 I totally agree with your choices in the fake bum contest, in fact I love that down hoop skirt! Too bad we can't have these in modern times! (Or can we???) Anyway, my funny story: in 1976, when I was seventeen, I did my best with what money I had and created a dress to recreate Elizabeth I for my class on Halloween. Having learned about but never worn a hoop skirt before, I made a sort of half skirt of small hoops and let it go at that. Nobody in the class but me and the history teachers would know it wasn't accurate. Well, having finished my monologue as Her Majesty, I went back out to the class and sat down in the front row and, forgetting to move the hoops correctly, I sat on the hoops and my skirts shot straight up to my thighs!😱 THAT got the attention of the class!😂😂😂 Fortunately, no real peep show so my very red face laughed along with them! I got first prize that day for best costume but I've always wondered if it was because of that!
10:57 I submitted this one, and the museum article states that the fluffy thing is stuffed with a chiffon material.
But yay, happy to see that my submission made it into the video.
I've also hidden another person under my skirt! I was at an anime convention dressed as Anthy from Utena and we needed to have another cosplayer have a secret entrance partway through the event, so we stuck 'em under my hoops and I stood quietly in the back until it was time to have them come out.
That last one...
I mean.
Are we sure that wasn't meant to be somewhere inside a medieval codpiece?
(I'm going now)
14:10 the funny thing is that this has come back in a way! The Noonee chairless chair is a leg harness that is for people behind counters or at tables or in factories etc that lets you sit without needing a seperate chair/stool (i want one so bad Dx )
Oooo! Wish I'd had that when I was working retail &/or at the sewing factory as a teen! (We were standing all day on concrete floors with just a thin rubber mat in certain areas.)
@@moniqueleigh ugh same! If I could have even leaned while sorting clothes, it could have saved me some back pain
I wonder if I could make a hot water bottle bum pad. Good for pain flare days and winter coziness I'd imagine.
Oooh that sounds FANTASTIC! Please do keep us updated if you do.
If only buckwheat and similar microwave-heatable stuffings weren’t so heavy.
Oh snap now I want one! I have lower back pain and this would help so much
When I was at my most recent chilly and rainy 18th century reenactment, I joked that I should sew a pocket for a hot potato into my bum pad!
@@ragnkja I mean...you could always build a skirt support on/around a lower-back heating pad belt and hide a battery pack under your skirt layers.
Happy Birthday 🎉. This was such a fun video ❤
My wedding story time ❤
I had an enormous hoop under my dress. At one point in the reception, all the kids in attendance hid under my skirts. 😂
The brown single hoop from the MET: Are we sure it's not one of a pair? It looks to me like one of a pair of hip flare supports one would wear with a pair of voluminous "bloomers" or divided skirts to flare out the tiny peplum skirt at the hips. OK so it totally looks like the pair my Great Gran wore with her full length bloomers in pictures.
Happy birthday and many happy returns! Every time I hear about padding and creating a silhouette with undergarments I always wonder, why especially celebrities are going through with plastic surgery instad of simply using padding and structured undergarments.
Plenty of them do use structural undergarments (what else are Spanx and push-up bras?). But modern clothing often has less structure or coverage to hide padding under.
Happy biiiiirthday!! ❤️
Thoroughly enjoyed the video. I feel a little under the weather so the laugh was just what I needed. Thank you!
Little linguistic lesson: it's "Weiberspeck" ("ie" is pronounced "ee", but "ei" is like English I in German. So, "viber-spec") 😁
Happy birthday, Vi! May you live as long as you want to, and want to as long as you live.
I would definitely wear the duvet petticoat, especially in the colder months, but I prefer to wear wool and wrap myself up in blankets and/or duvets most of the year, so I might not be the most representative in this regard.
Btw, it should be “Weiberspeck”, as “Weib” means “woman, wife”, whereas there’s no word spelled “Wieb”, “Wiebe” or “Wieber” anywhere in the German dictionary. (This also means that the pronunciation is off, since you were going off of the misspelling.)
I they meant "Weiberspeck", the "w" is pronounced like "v" in English and the "ei" like "eye". Weib is a somewhat old-fashioned and derogatory term for woman, Weiber is the plural. In this context, I would probably translate "Speck" as "blubber" rather than "bacon" because it means a deposit of body fat around the hips. Love handles, basically.
Oh, and Happy Birthday!!!
Thank you! "Wieberspeck" threw me off the video, whats with people from the US always messing up ie and ei?!
I have in the past made a bustle similar to the 1871 MET one with many hoops. It was very heavy, lots of engineering to get it right (which I didn't) but also very stylish under the dress. Sitting in it... not so easy though.
Omg
Weiberspeck is one of my favourite words
Speck usually refers to Bacon but it can also mean the fat part of any meat
In this specific case the lovely fat around the hips and thighs
Tbh I use Weiberspeck quite often and the only synonym of this part of the body would be 'thass' (= part between the thigh and ass , at least that's what I picked up from the internet)
Thanks for this unexpected but cool info and new perspective on (my) use of language
i was at a combination Ren Faire/SCA/Steampunk get together and there was a sudden rainstorm and mild flooding
some of the ladies in the hoopskirts just pulled their skirts over their heads from behind and hefted the fronts up to make it to the shelter without getting their hems wet
when they dropped their skirts inside they started singing Carol of the Bells and driving their skirts to-and-fro
The bustle chair had a cameo in one of Courtney Milan's most recent books, The Devil Comes Courting, set in 1870s China. (If you like funny, well researched, non-tokenizingly diverse, medium spicy romance, I cannot recommend her enough)
Morgan Donner made a bustle chair.
Happy birthday. I make myself a quilted skirt to wear indoors, from those quilted strips you put on the bottom of beds etc. It's so cosy, and if I put a skirt on top, would hold it out, not quite as much as this one in the video though.
The mesh bustle pad and the last spiral coil bustle remind me of the American folktale of Pecos Bill and Slue-foot Sue--the latter wearing a steel-spring bustle when she attempts to ride Pecos Bill's horse Widowmaker on her wedding day. She's bucked off, and bounces all the way to the moon when she lands on her bustle (this per the Disney version, at least). Also--funny Halloween bum roll story. A friend and I made an Elizabeth I gown one Halloween for her daughter (also an Elizabeth) when she was 6 or 7 years old, complete with bum roll (which we may or may not have manufactured out of a dryer hose--memory fails). After the town Halloween parade, we took her out for fast food. It was a Hardees with molded plastic banquettes. She hopped up onto the bench, bounced off the back because of the bum roll, and face-planted onto the table. Only a few tears, more from surprise than from pain.
When the quilted petticoat appeared on the screen, my first reaction was "Oo, that looks COZY!" (I live north of Boston) Looks like something that would be great to wear for sleigh rides or caroling.
I have unfortunately not had the occasion to wear a bustle, except for the bustling that was done to my wedding gown, which was mostly to keep the train from dragging in places it shouldn't. Which is of course not remotely the same thing.
I keep wanting to try the chair-bustle.... but... hmmm.... I mean, if some of those pad bustles help with low back pain, that might be a very good idea to invest in one.....
Really wish I could have caught this live! And not just because the alternative was oral surgery, lol, but at least it was a good distraction after. Thanks for such a funny and informative video!
as a german, I would actually translate "Weiberspeck" as "women's fat" (as in body fat). Speck does mean bacon, but it's often used as a slang term for someone's body fat, in an unflattering, mean-spirited way. kinda like one might call someone a "tub of lard" in english.
there a cartoon about a cowboy and a frontier lady and she... falls off of something? and she bounces higher and higher on her bustle until she bounces out of sight
i wish i could remember what if was - it wasn't Bugs Bunny - anyone remember?
Pecos Bill and Slue-foot Sue, according to another comment.
Morgan Donner made one of those chair bustle 🤣 Belated Happy Birthday ! Mine is in 4days. Great video, didn’t know there were so many different kinds of bustling choices 🤣😂🤣
OMG, I want a quilted down petticoat. That would be so warm in the winter. I would hardly need a coat! Which is good because probably very few of my coats would fit over it.
I usually do early medieval or occasionally Roman costuming where it's simple geometric construction and little to no understructure, but after seeing all these I feel like I need to make some sort of outfit that would include bum padding for the fun of it, love the shapes that these create in the skirts!
Perhaps I could go for one of those 16th centuryish ones like your ren fair outfit, it's unfamiliar but much closer to my comfort zone than Victorian tailoring!
Yeah I kinda want a bumpad or hip roll so I don't look so much like a sausage in my kirtle!!
What, no French Farthingale? I think I would rate them donkey. They're more unflattering and awkward-looking than a bum roll, but you can dance in them, so they must not be too impractical to wear.
Can you ever go wrong with butt puns? No, of course not!
Also, Happy Birthday!
Hey! Happy birthday! My birthday is the 26th and I just turned 40 yesterday, so we're birthday buddies!
So I love wearing skirts but even without a single Petticoat underneath I am not to be trusted with them. I routinely knock things off the coffeetable or get them caught on something. Just today I had to clean a coffeestain on my rug because my skirt sweped a mug off the table. 😂
This is more a "wtf material choice" story. Inspired by the tetanus bum.
A friend was a furry before the internet. This meant he didn't have a good tutorial to follow. He made his fursuit head out of barbed wire. Anyone other than him would get their eyes gouged if they put it on
Happy birthday! And thank you for this extremely entertaining video for a very grey morning
Morgan Donner constructed the chair bustle pad a while back, not practical for getting in a car and looked weird to be sitting in an "invisible" chair.
I wonder--that MET one is probably horsehair, not metal wire.
I use my bustle pad as a tailors ham!!! 😂
HAPPY BIRTHDAY 🎂 🍨🎉🎊🎈✨️🎁🎀🍰🍵♏ Ms.V 🥳🍑.
Morgan Donner's husband made a bustle chair for her!
How weird. I just made a bum pad yesterday for a costume and now this shows up.
Okay, I'm off to get one of those stickers for my guitar case! 😂
This is what the internet is made for!
😁😁😁
I hope you have a great birthday! Those rumps were magnificent to look at and the last looks more like a phallic shape to me, interestingly enough... Man, I gotta get my mind out of the gutters!
These chair contraptions are coming back in modern engineering. In some fabrics they are used as an exoskeleton.
Are we quite sure that's wire mesh? It looks like horsehair to me.
Morgan Donner built and wear the bustle chair. Check it out it was great. Wonderful content. Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday Vi! 🎉
Also, 'fake butt police', that was on point 😂
Happy birthday V!!!💛🤍💜🖤
I'm making an 1880s pad (like the one you wore in the video about your ancestor Carolina in NY in 1881), and was looking for something to watch while sewing. This seems like the perfect video! 😂
OK I was amused and enjoying this video until you came to the chair bustle and you got me laughing because you just created a visual there and I was feeling it😂
Hi, A belated happy birthday. I hope that it was a good one. I highly enjoyed the bustle ranking. I've never really paid that much attention to those things, because I'm not a costumer, myself so this was a new way of thinking for me. Thank you. Yours, Ann
Growing up, “historical underwear” was a major interest and hobby of my mom’s; in fact, that’s what got me into historical fashion. The waterfall hoop bustle is exactly the kind of stunning garment that would get one into historical underwear, I think!
Rump roast indeed! LOL Loved this! Also, Happy Birthdaaaaaay! :D
Weiberspeck (pronounce V-eye-ber) means the ladies bacon, so her own flesh! XD So your Weiberspeck is very kosher!
Inflatable hoopskirts sound so uncomfortable to sit on. Those false rump cusions though? They look comfier when you need to sit down, they're like a second cushion lol.
Happy birthday! This was a super fun video, and I’m loving the merch ❤.
way ahead of you. Fashion. I've been growing my own rolled bum for more than 60 years. since I first grew hips.
Love your content, fun and serious both, but this video helped me realize why I don't always have the energy to watch your videos. The cuts mid-sentence, to keep the presentation on track, are a startle that my executive dysfunction has trouble coping with. Even a split second of silence, about the length of taking a breath, would make the thread of thought easier to keep up with on my bad days.
Love the channel, and the enthuseasm and effort you put into both entertaining and educating.
It's called Weiberspeck - you switched the i and e.
Happy birthday anyway.
The youtube channel 24Washington has a video where they make and test a couple of different styles of wire mesh bustles!
Happy Birthday! Sto Lat!
A note on the chair bustle... Morgan Donner made one and wore it around a mall to test the idea. There's a video!
watching this whilst eating leftover birthday cake, (not mine bf, but a mates from d&d)
No funny skirt story, but you bringing up the chair bustle reminded me of the @morgandonner video where she actually made on. The main problems she had was trying to sit in a car and having the legs of it bumping into the back of her legs. But walking around her local mall made it easier to find a place to sit.
Happy belated birthday! Posting on the 29th and my birthday was yesterday! 🎉🎉
Happy orbital anniversary!
This is a delightful video 😂
Happy birthday! 💜 always love learning from you!
That multihoop bustle looks like something a character from The Jetsons would wear on its own in pretty colors!
Happy Birthday to you Lovely Vi! 🎉
And this was a delight!
This was loads of fun! I just made my first bumroll, and I'm looking forward to getting to try it out.
Happy Birthday 🎉 Ive also been celebrating my Grandpas bday today so cheers to you too
Hope you were having an awesome day 😊
Before BBLs, we had these.
and these were safely and easily removeable!
Happy birthday! I want to make the bustle I have dubbed the Opera House as a super fun funky skirt to wear.
Such a fitting video as I am making a fake butt for part of my Halloween costume
I bet that last one was built for travel. The coils could probably be laid flat with a little shifting and the sides folded in to make a nicely compact item to fit in a middle-class woman's travel trunk
Happy birthday, fellow scorpio! This was a lot of fun.
Happy birthday!
יום הולדת שמח!
So bustle pads that fit in the lower back when sitting are precursors to lumbar support pillows?
I had to pause the video at Rump Roast and get a glass of Refreshment because oh, this gonna be GOOD.