Felicity Wardrobe Project: Meet Felicity

I will do an in depth write up of this project soon, but I have finished with my Meet Felicity dress, and I am too thrilled with it not to share!

One day I'll get back to working on Belle, but Felicity is where it's at for me right now! I'll probably do her Christmas dress next, though I have another costume I need to work on for an upcoming convention first! The Christmas dress will be a bit of a test run for making a robe a la francaise before I start on my cypress dress.

18th Century Underpinnings

I started my adventure in sewing historic fashions almost a year ago. I sewed a shift and under petticoat early on and then got stuck on the stays, an essential garment for getting the proper silhouette. I finally let myself sew the boning channels of my first set of stays by machine and now I finally have my underpinnings done. Under the cut you'll find details about my process for making each of the different layers for my 18th century undergarments.

Cypress Robe a la Francaise

A few months ago I first saw the whimsical cypress embroidered robe a la Francaise from the 2018 Cora Ginsburg catalog and fell in love with it. I immediately knew that I wanted to try and recreate it. I emailed the Cora Ginsburg Gallery and asked if they would be able to send me more images and, much to my surprise and delight, they responded with a few high quality images that were not included in the original catalog pdf!

I have all the images they sent on my Google Drive for anyone who wants to see the detailed images! 

Click read more for additional information about my exciting reproduction project!