An Afternoon Dress

I just did a post on Miss Emaline's Circle of Fashionable Friends about an 1860's dress I made for my China doll (to see the finished project click here) and This young lady was kind enough to ask to see more pictures of the one I made for myself! So I scavenged around and found these. They are not very good but they'll do the job! It is an 1860's afternoon dress made of cotton calico. For the bodice I used this pattern and cut the neckline different and for the sleeves I used this pattern. I'm sorry to say that my dress is not ironed in ANY of these pictures. For shame!Here is the dress with a cotton blouse underneath for morning and day time.
I trimmed it with white piping (everyone is always telling me that they didn't do contrasting piping in the 1860's... All I can say is, "Were. You. There?") and also with a pretty cotton lace. There are covered buttons fastening it down the front.
The skirt is 4 panels around to fit over a hoop, with a gathered ruffle sewn on near the hem, hand gathered into a waistband and sewn on to the bodice. This picture shows the truest color of the ruffle but still doesn't quite do it justice.

There is a growth tuck just above the ruffle because I made it too long and then did not have time to make it look like it was supposed to be there before the event we were going to. phew! And as is most often the case with me... it is still there looking weird to this day.
So there you have it! The best part of this dress is how much fun it is to wear! The ruffle makes the skirt have a great weight and it moves really beautifully! I wish I had some better pictures but alas... ah me... and all that. =]
Have a lovely day!
Marguerite

Robin Hood is my friend. :)

"Ha HA!"
I love this song! its so happy. :)
hope you enjoy :)

aimee

searching..

for this dress..
isn't she beautiful?
I love the lacing on the side/back seam. and the neat-o straps! check it out! they're skinny in the back and them wide on top! who'd-a thunk it! i wonder if they go skinny again in the front.... hmmmm.. that's the trouble with paintings. only one picture of them. *huff* but oh well. i guess you could think of it as a chance to come up with something original. ..
when i make this, *eyebrow action*, i will pose like this. with my hair in a draping braid and playing a lute! :D
aimee
if only i had a lute.. *sigh*

my silly..

Hello silly people! how do you find yourselves today? a polyvore for all the sillies out there. :)

Willy Nilly by Gesh"247 featuring Alexander Wang tops

lovely day my sillies!
aimee

Ch air

it's fun to sit on air.

but if you fall and get a bonkin',

then i suggest you get a chair. 

goodness! wouldn't you love it sit in this?? 

but of course you would need a very neat vintage dress to suit it....

 

haven't you been inlove with this dress for ages? words fail me to describe it...it's so fabulous!

but it's a lobster! and why WOULDN'T you want a lobster on your dress?

i had a thought... to embroider a lobster on a dress like this one. 

what do you think?

"What a day for a daydream," eh?

aimee

Our God is an Awesome God!

Aren't these pictures from the Hubble Telescope amazing? I don't know how anyone can look at these pictures and think it all "just happened".

Eleven concentric shells of gas surround the dying star of the Cat’s Eye Nebula, one of the most complex planetary nebulae ever discovered.

The mass of galaxy cluster Abell 2218 distorts and magnifies the light of galaxies beyond it, allowing us to see distant galaxies in the universe.

 This view of nearly 100,000 (!!! Wow!) galaxies captures the faintest visible-light details of the universe ever seen. It reveals billions of light years of galactic history.

Gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit tears across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour to form the butterfly-shaped nebula.

 

 

Do you feel tiny yet? 

I do. 

 

And it's a great feeling. Because I know that my God is bigger than all of these galaxies and stars. And a God who can create such beauty is a God worthy to be praised! Just think of how many gorgeous things are out farther in the universe that we haven't even seen yet and may not ever see. 

 

 

 Psalm 8

   ¹O LORD, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! 

who hast set thy glory above the heavens.

   ²Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained 

strength because of thine enemies, 

that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

   ³When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, 

the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained;

   ⁴What is man, that thou art mindful of him? 

and the son of man, that thou visitest him?

   ⁵For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, 

and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

   ⁶Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; 

thou hast put all things under his feet:

   ⁷All sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field;

   ⁸The fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, 

and whatsoever passeth through the paths of the seas.

   ⁹O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!

 

Go here to see more photographs of God's handiwork. 

 

Have a happy weekend everyone!
♥ Genevieve 

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