I haven't posted on a dress with a bustle yet, and considering that "bustle" is in the title, I had better post on it. Well, here it is. I first saw a bustle when I was about six or eight years old. I never realizedt that a bustle was really a metal cage-like undergarment. Instead, I just thought ladies wearing bustles had a funny way of walking. For example, Cinderella's step-sisters wear bustles in Disney's Cinderella, and I always thought they had a "snooty" way of walking. Now I've come to realize that they were wearing bustles. What I find most interesting about this revelation is that Cinderella and her stepmother never wear bustles. I do agree that bustles look kind of silly, so maybe the Cinderella animators were trying to accentuate how silly Cindy's step-sisters were.As far as bustles go, the one in this picture doesn't look silly. The back of her dress looks like a giant present, but I like presents. I've been staring at the caption above the picture for a while now trying to fathom what it may mean. Apparently, this picture details how a doll's dress should look, but we all know a doll's dress would never come out looking that good. My mother has made a lot of doll dresses, and they never come out looking like the illustration. My mother was a textiles major too, so she's good at sewing.
Well, I've never been jealous of women or dolls wearing bustles because I don't like to sit on metal cages. I have to sit through long college classes, and some of those classes are uncomfortable enough as it is.
