With the right reinforcements and under the right circumstances, you can wear an antique garment without wearing it out
“I once had a vintage skirt I loved wearing [but] the seams kept splitting,” she says. “So I carefully unpicked the key seams and resewed them with a modern thread.”Garments with lots of beading should also be approached with a shrewd eye. Bella Lipson-Smith, a conservator of textiles at the National Gallery of Victoria, says: “Check for loose threads on beading before wearing – beads are often sewn on in lines, so one loose thread can lead to the loss of a whole section of beading.
“1920s flapper dresses are often made of unlined silk chiffon with lots of rhinestones or beading on them,” Miller says. “They are doomed from the start; it is the rare flapper dress that does not have shoulder straps which are torn from the weight of the embellishments and the active partying [it] may have lived through.”
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