over-complicating costumes since forever ago
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…
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…
Okay, note the tv type and the lack of carpeting, I drafted this back in ’06 ish for my princess line sheer gown. So clearly I was determined that it would indeed be princess line! I would however like to make a very extended train and a full balayeuse to make the hem swish….
I have been on a pinterest-go-round but also while doing so found others who had liked some really old auctions and museum pages I had way back when, so I’m going to do a post about the inspiration for my next historic project 🙂 I was trying very hard to find the perfect gown, or…
CHANGED MY MIND ABOUT THE TULLE! by admin, December 14, 2014 I have been very remiss and forgot about my earliest introductions to costume history and remembered there is indeed a fashion plate I have wanted to recrete for years but never really settled on a fabric nor trim. So. Urk, blurry phone…
FIRST VICTORIAN SKETCH IN AGES! by admin, December 10, 2014 This will be cotton net and heavy guipure lace sewn in stripes. It will be a polonaise in the natural form style- so very long and quite tightly pulled back rather than up and back as you see in the two bustle styles. There will…