over-complicating costumes since forever ago
post- 1700 costumes. Historic, historic inspired or recreations from historical productions.
I keep coming back to a very small handful I really want to work on, and realised I have a major love for very stark gowns. I mean Sunburst or not on that skirt that gown would be on my Must Make list anyway. Virginie Gautreux by JS Sargent and Rose Caron by Toulmouche. I…
Went on a dress hunting spree last night. I want to find all he beaded gowns of the 1880s to see if I can shift my obsession. Didn’t find what I wanted. But I did find a few I do love, just not to the hard core grabbed my heart when I was a kid and it…
Well I need a very specific corset. If you look through most corset diagrams in magazines at the time, you’ll notice a trend for corsets that constantly curve through the back and waist and hips, front and back. http://www.arrayedindreams.com/antique-fashion/der-bazar-1857-1898/patterns-from-der-bazar-corsets-1870s/ But Ithese really are designed for a fashionable shape which includes displacing fleah from the waist and…
I worked on both my marie Antoinette gown and Upstage gown today. For Marie I cut the silver lamé to fit the skirt. It will need to be stitched in a specific order so no pics today as it’s a bit of a mess. It will be all overlocked tomorrow though as the weave is…
I may have been reading too many of my Girl’s Own Annuals again! Anyway, fit has been on my mind a lot recently. I think there is a fear of fitting, and I totally get why. It’s incredibly invasive! If someone helps fit you they have to lay their hands on you and move your…
I made nothing from what I can remember. Just straight up nothing. I started the year well but with the passing of my darling Booheart I started grieving and it just never really let up. I was not able to focus through to the end of anything. And then my disease management started to peter…
The skirt and part of the drapery has been draped! I went back to my trusty Harper’s Bazar and Patterns of Fashion as a reminder. I know I have a few pages dedicated to cutting skirts of this era, but there are times it is handy to have an extant example and an idealised example to…
Over the years I have come to the conclusion I have a very distinct style, even across multiple eras and genres. There is a very obvious pattern to what appeals when one is a maker first, fan second. I am a fan of when function meets form. So working out a puzzle of construction is…
Finally decided to just join in the picnic fun at Howick Historical Village on Jan 15 instead for booking for a dessert buffet (that would be fun but this should offer a nice range of things to do:) So this is the timeframe to make the sheer frock as I am not wearing The Mina in…
I am knackered. But had insomnia so resorted my current/long term projects . Then had two hours sleep. My coordination right now is terrible so my typing is taking time! ANyway, I am very proud of my princess petticoat 🙂 It fits the way I want it to and it comes very close to the 1878…