You can see the details better here, but I'll admit the lighting is a tad bright.
Sunday, 25 July 2010
Striped black dress hem detail close-up
You can see the details better here, but I'll admit the lighting is a tad bright.
Striped black dress hem close-up
The hem of the other skirt has some interesting details. It took ages to do all the pleats, zig-zag stitching, and sewing the ribbon on the hem.
Striped black dress collar close-up
I closed the curtains to try and get the material on the collar to shine just right here.
Striped black dress jacket front close-up
Although to be honest, non-fraying buttonholes are hard indeed!
Striped black dress jacket back close-up
The back detail of the jacket I'm especially proud of. Doing so many tiny seams without them fraying was very difficult!
Striped black dress back hem close-up
You can see here that the stripes on the overskirt aren't quite black, but navy - this is more material we had lying around I recycled.
Striped black dress (another front close-up)
The slightly shiny fabric that makes up the pointed detail on the front I actually dyed black from some of our old yellow curtains.
Striped black dress front close-up
I should say at this point I made another longer skirt to go with it, which is the extra layer you can see in these pictures.
Striped black dress side close-up
Oh, and I did a few in the garden room as well. The light wasn't as good in there, but this one came out ok.
Striped black dress (with crinoline and underskirt) side view
For these pictures, I built a makeshift wire crinoline to have on the dressmaker's dummy underneath so that you can see the skirt properly.
Striped black dress (with crinoline and underskirt)
Excuse the mess - these are some close-ups I took in the kitchen.
Striped black dress
This is the outfit I made from scratch. I might have done a few too many close-ups for this one, but I'm proud of it - I hadn't done too much sewing before this, so it was a bit ambitious. It took a few weekends and a lot of broken needles, but I definitely learnt a lot!
Fur-edged bonnet close-up
This is my smallest bonnet. You can't really see here, but the inside is all black and white fur.
Fur-edged bonnet with outfit closer
This is the outfit I made completely (not the parasol though...) - I'll post a link to the vintage pattern I made it from soon.
Fur-edged bonnet with outfit
This was a fun hat to make. I had to have one to go with this outfit, didn't I?
Graveyard hat with outfit
Now this is a bought outfit. But I'd like to think the the hat is more eye-catching.
Graveyard hat side view
This photo's pretty bright, but I like the shadows from the gravestones slanting across the hat here. That was an unusual sentence!
Graveyard hat front view
Now this took ages. I still have a bag of foam scraps around here somewhere...
Striped top hat side view
The hat from the side. The striped pattern didn't come out quite right here, but the netting tones down the yellow, and it's alright.
Striped top hat
This was the first hat I made - and it does look a bit odd now. Note the use of triple-layered ruffles though!
Black lace bonnet with outfit
These two items - the skirt and the hat - would never have gone together at any time in history. But it comes together pretty well in this picture anyway.
Black lace bonnet close-up
Ah, we're getting into the hat collection now. I had better mention that these hats aren't strictly traditional - I covered them with fabric in a traditional style, but... I started off with a cardboard skeleton rather than buckram, and most of them involved a lot of hot glue...
Red court dress
Only two photos I wasn't accidentally pulling faces in for this one! I'd better get on and do those shots on my mannequin.
Red court dress
The sun was really making me squint when we wanted a few pictures of this dress - I made the undergarments to keep it out at the sides, and the overskirt(the tartan and beaded material - It's actually got some interesting gathering on the back I need to take some pictures of when I do my close-ups.
Green mantle back view
The sleeves do have a green triangular insert in the back which you can't see too well in the other pictures (so far).
Green mantle (another side view)
The sun came out for this one - although I rarely wear anything with so much colour, the green material I found for this project comes out well here.
Green mantle side view
Standing on the top of the pedestal. You can see the sleeves a bit better from this angle.
Green mantle from the front
A mantle isn't as fitted a jacket as most Victorian examples are, as it was mostly a winter garment to go over a few layers of clothing. I should add that I'm wearing this over an outfit I made entirely myself - I'll feature that a bit later.
Red dress with train outside
Outside on the steps. You can see the section I didn't paint in this one a little better.
Red dress with train
Nice shot of the train here, although my hair looks a bit messy... The ruffles around the edge took ages. The ideal formula for ruffles is to measure the side you want to fit the ruffles to, and cut a piece three times the length - when you gather it to fit the side you should get ruffles that are curled just the right amount... I think I did 45 feet of black felt in the end, if I remember right.
Red dress with train first picture
The first picture I'm putting up is actually one of the later ones we took that day - a friend of ours kindly let us take pictures in his country house and around the garden.The red dress I made the skirt for and attached to the body of a red and black corset dress I never wore. Recycling! The train of the dress is actually made out of leftover fabric from having the sofa re-upholstered. It was actually red and biege all over, the same as in the middle of the train now, and I filled in the black shapes with fabric paint.
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