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For Mom's 1863 Dress, I found a dress from the MET that will look fabulous on her! I also found in our stash fabrics that we can use for it!! Huzzah!!! Here it is! I love the purples and the fact that the bodice and skirt are different shades of purple. We only have 7 yards of the material for the skirt, so yeah for different materials in one dress!! Fabulous Purple MET dress The back is really pretty!! Mom's dress won't have the elliptical shape of this one as the cage crinoline is not elliptical. Mom's fabrics are very similar in color to the extant dress...but...the skirt in mom's will be the light purple and the bodice will be the darker wool. Close up of the texture of the light purple...the colors are wrong, but this gives you an idea of the fabrics! Can't wait to see this dress complete!! Mom will look fabulous!
American, 19th century, Dress, c. 1865, Moire silk, dress. Wadsworth Athenaeum
Court dress with bodice, skirt and train of embroidered silk and silk tulle, made in Great Britain, 1860-1865
(a) Dress of pink and white striped taffeta, sleeveless fitted bodice, with wide flaring neck, and attached bertha collar pointed center front and center back, skirt with front and side fullness in pleats and greatest fullness in gathers at back, dress buttoned down center back with pink silk covered buttons, concealed pocket on either side of center front, bodice lined with white taffeta, skirt faced with stiffened muslin, bottom of skirt trimmed with diagonally cut gathered corded flounce of self material edged with pink taffeta, small mother-of-pearl buttons on waist band for attachment of
Embroidered corded silk dress, Great Britain, ca. 1862.
Before I found out about the new baby and slowed down on sewing this summer, I was doing quite a few dress commissions. This was a fun one - an 1860s young lady's sheer cotton dress in turquoise. Meant to be a nicer day or party dress - cute and pretty for dances at reenactments without being something you have to worry about ruining (like a silk ballgown!). It has a wide neckline, piped, short sleeves accented with tiny self fabric ruffles, a very full gauged skirt with a few decorative tucks around the hem. All visible seams are hand done - it fastens up the back with hooks and eyes. The fabric is a semi sheer cotton. The website I ordered the fabric from listed the cotton as 'voile' which normally is *very* sheer, this turned out to be less so than I had hoped, but still made up into a lovely dress. I really adore the design - the lightly gathered bodice and rounded is such a flattering style for teens. I very much regret that I didn't know enough about period fashions when I was a teenager reenacting to really take advantage of all the fun youthful styles that were age-appropriate then. I've been collecting pictures of girls and teens dresses of the 19th century here if you are interested in seeing more of this style. This original c. 1850 dress was our inspiration picture: The young lady who commissioned the dress sent me some really fun pictures where she used the dress during her graduation photo shoot!
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