If you incorporate a history lesson with your knitting, all the more better. OH==an aside here! When I type "More Better", I always think of the Mexican shop where we were buying tequila and the local shop owner came to us with a "More better" bottle of Tequila!
Okay back to the topic of this blog--The historical pattern being knit this month with one group of history living knitters is representative of Henriette Sontag, a German opera singer who visited various countries wearing an unusual wrapped shawl—it made an instant impression on many women. Yes, we need that! THat's the way it is with most everyone who wants to be fashion conscious--doesn't matter the year as this fashion accessory was noted in Mid 1800's! There is nothing new in the minds of women with it comes to fashion trends.
Henriette Sontag was a famous German opera singer.
n 1849, she was encouraged by the impresario Benjamin Lumley to perform a season at Covent Garden Theatre. She proved to have fully retained her vocal powers. In 1852, she toured America, and in May 1854, at a literary evening in honor of Mexican president Antonio López de Santa Anna, she made public for the first time the lyrics that Francisco González Bocanegra had written to celebrate the nation (with an Italian musical arrangement). A day after singing Lucia di Lammermoor, she contracted cholera, which would claim her life at age 48.[1]
So, what if she was an opera singer, what fashion trend did she begin?
where ever she toured, this was the talk of fashion--a cross your heart wrap that hugs your bossom. This fashion could be seen in the Outlander series. Little Women were also wearing this fashion. There were plenty of patterns written and needles with yarn were flying to knit one of these wraps.
Modern day designers have found other ways to wear this wrap around--one that doesn't hug the breast--as seen in this pattern by Jenn Monahan--a double duty fashion!
So, the next time you think about knitting a garment--think-maybe, just maybe, this will begin a fashion trend of your own!
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