If you want to create something like this: then the planning has to be excessive. Addition made at a later point of time: Sometimes, the planning can be excessive, yet it still doesn’t work… this costume’s diary is a perfect example. I will explain that at a later point of time in this diary. First, […]
Victorian
Worth Reception gown
Mission name: The ‚Vampire‘ or ‚Worth apprentice‘ gown (read below for explanation) Some years ago, when I acquired the ‚Fashion‘ book by the Kyoto costume institute, I was right away captured by one particular gown. It was not exactly my favorite shape – the ‚extreme‘ bustle of the Victorian era; it wasn’t at all my […]
Victorian Titanic dress
Victorian Boarding dress Or: What would Rose have worn if the Titanic had sunk approximately 40 years earlier? I think that almost everyone knows this gown: This is the gown Rose is wearing when boarding the Titanic. I like that gown very much – the only reason why it’s not on my list of planned […]
Bodices
The day bodice Here’s a picture of the day bodice in the making, still without sleeves, decoration and the detachable gilet front. The basque – still without waistband – is pinned to the underskirt. As you can see I have made the sides of the bodice from black velvet. This was not just done to […]
Victorian Day Dress
Some time ago I discovered another fabric in my fabrics collection that I had almost forgotten. It’s a beautiful blue wool fabric which is covered with black velvet swirl patterns. Draped over my shoulder, it looks like this… I always wanted to make a nice day dress for myself; no matter from what period (I […]
Skirts
The skirts The skirt consists of two different skirts: The underskirt, as shown above made from the blue patterned fabric, with a wide flounce of blue satin at the bottom and The overskirt, which is planned to be made of black velvet and also has a (smaller) flounce of blue satin at its bottom hem. […]
Moulin Blue gown
Since I always liked this gown from Moulin Rouge: Screen Cap from Moulin Rouge – just not the color, because red makes me look as if I have been dead several decades, I at first didn’t want to make it for myself. That was until I found a nice looking acetate satin in slate blue with a black woven […]
Skirt
The skirt of the Moulin Rouge gown has something special and tells us something about the fabric used: As we can see here, there is a ‚bustle‘ at the backside resembling a butterfly. If we take a very close look, the underside of that butterfly bustle is black with a very narrow red hemming. This […]
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