Fashion History

What’s On

/ Karin McKechnie-Lid / Leave a comment

It’s been a bit hectic here at the Atelier of late but here’s a little preview of an 1890s days I’m putting together based on patterns that I drafted from original sources. If all goes right, I’ll be modeling it in Tombstone this weekend. Enjoy! 🙂 We begin first with a little design inspiration:

 

 

 

The skirt color is a tomato-like shade of red and it pairs very neatly with this pair of American Duchess shoes…I’ve saving those for just the right occasion.  🙂

 

Miss Fiona approves of the American Duchess/skirt pairing… 🙂

 

That’s all for now but we’ll have more soon! 🙂

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Project: Circa 1884 Evening Dress- Part 2

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With the newly-released series The Gilded Age, this post and its companions are very timely. Trust us when we say that we’ll have a lot to say about the costuming so stay tuned! 😁

In this post, we continue with the design and construction of our circa 1884-inspired evening dress.

We start by creating the hem, in this case utilizing knife pleating.

Constructing the hem pieces. This involved knife pleating combined with piping along the top.

Voila! And the hem is mounted to the underskirt. The train has been pinned to the rear to see how everything will hang. The waistband will be attached last, after the skirts have been thoroughly tested for fit and how they drape.

Fiona doesn’t approve of Mom working… 😄

To be continued…

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Corsetry

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Vintage Metis coutil bleu corset interior, I love a single-layer corset…it always amazes me the strength and control one layer of just the right fabric. I’m usually in one of these.

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