Recently Mom decided that she wanted to make dresses for Faith and I from the Regency period. Because we wanted them to look unique, I enjoyed combining different aspects I liked from pictures and costumes in the movies "Emma" and "Pride and Prejudice".
After I sketched out my ideas, my amazing seamstress mother was able to sew my designs!
I love how the sleeves and bodice turned out on Faith's dress.
Mom had to do a lot of adjustments on my dress since we really deviated from the original pattern!
The Spencer jacket was sewn without any pattern at all. Once again, I combined the elements I liked from multiple photos, and Mom was able to sew it. I love how it turned out!
I read somewhere that the shorter the sleeves on the dress, the longer the gloves should be. I was happy to find opera length glove on ebay for $5!
We enjoyed wearing the beautiful finished dresses at an English Country ball recently. Now er just need another opportunity to wear the costumes again...
2 comments:
WOW!! I was beginning to lose hope that you would ever post again! But I'm glad to see you haven't stopped :) The dresses were absolutely beautiful and each style fit perfectly! :)
~Abby
Very beautiful! I wish we had been able to see you all at the ball! :( Aren't period dresses fun!
Mandie Barnard
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