Suggestions for Patterns

[Auntie Bellum]

So I have mostly been making civil war gowns, but I'm like'n this bustle gown thing. There's a lot more I can do with the dresses. Anyway, I have some fabric on hold that is a beautiful embroidered taffeta but I don't have patterns. I've found the inspiration dress.

http://inlinethumb17.webshots.com/40912/2761737550102324483S600x600Q85.jpg (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2761737550102324483ORlNUT)

I'd appreciate any suggestions for patterns you all have.

Thanks so much

AB

[maisondeverneur]

Have you looked at the TV site? If not - here's the link:-

http://trulyvictorian.netfirms.com/

[Auntie Bellum]

I have, but just don't know which ones would be the best ones to get this look.

AB

[Ima Schofield]

I'd try the tea gown with a shorter front and gathered up into the bustle area. It will make it full.

The other idea is the wash overskirt with out the center apron. If you want a train to drag, you'd have to add additional fabric to the center of the back.

Look at the patterns at tv.

[Ida Hands]

Those are GREAT suggestions, Ima. I can just see it in my mind's eye. It should be YUMMY!

[Auntie Bellum]

Is the top and bottom two seperate pieces, or is it a jacket with a tail?

AB

[Lady LaSalle]

I'd do something a little different. I'd use the TV201 underskirt for starters. If you're going to use those same colors, then I would make the entire thing out of ivory cotton and get some wide gathered lace for the ruffle. In the photo, it appears that the red fabric and the print fabric are all one piece. There is no way that I would attempt that! How adventurous do you feel? LOL!!!! I would make a bodice and an overskirt. I would use the TV208 Skirt ensemble and just extend the train as you need it. Then I would use the TV463 for the bodice top. There's my two cents!

[Greeneyed Gypsy]

I would do it in one piece but I have near and dear to my heart hang ups with the tea-gown princess style dresses....:gg:lalala:rofl

Either way you will achieve the same look...and LL's way is probably more versatile for the buyer, they could always leave off the long trained over skirt for a less formal affair.

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

Let's see, I'd probably use TV381 and scallop the edges of the overskirt and extend the train. This pattern is used with TV261, the 1885 five gore underskirt. http://trulyvictorian.com/catalog/381.html
http://trulyvictorian.com/catalog/381.jpg

I would use TV 463 for the bodice. http://trulyvictorian.com/catalog/463.html

http://trulyvictorian.com/catalog/463.jpg

[Fannie Kikinshoot]

I forgot that I had more pictures of this dress. Not sure if you have them, so here they are.

[Sweet Violet]

WOW!!! Auntie, that is a way cool dress!! Oooohh!! I can't wait to see your version of it!!! :jp :jp

[Auntie Bellum]

I only had the one picture. Your additional pictures change everything. Now, do you think I could get them to take the outer part off so I can really see the underneath. Fannie you seem to be the wizard. Just wave your wand and send it. I'll be waiting.....

AB

[Vintage Modiste]

Fannie you seem to be the wizard. Just wave your wand and send it. I'll be waiting.....

AB

Don’t forget to click you heels together two times! :wv :flame

[Auntie Bellum]

Don’t forget to click you heels together two times! :wv :flame


I clicked my heels and nothing happened... What do I do now????

[Vintage Modiste]

I clicked my heels and nothing happened... What do I do now????

Did you have on your red heels? :flame
http://i229.photobucket.com/albums/ee52/vintagemodiste/250px-Vc461.jpg

[Auntie Bellum]

Oops, I was wearing the lime ones.:lool

[Tornado Alli]

:loolY'all are too funny!!!!

I have forgotten now who said "tea gown" first but after seeing Fannie's additional pictures that is definitely the pattern I would use, and nothing else!

Has anyone noticed that the two views are different?? The first picture has a white lace petticoat underneath and the pics Fannie provided do not. I think the first one uses the petticoat because they added a bustle underneath, which pulled the skirt up and away from the front, thus necessitating the petticoat. This is obviously the same dress because it is a vintage garment, but it is being displayed in one picture as an 1885 bustle gown and then in the second set of pictures it is displayed as a late 70's/early 80's gown (no bustle). Interesting, huh?

After looking at them both, here's what I would do.

I would use the tea gown and make a under dress of the print material, make it sleeveless, floor length, bone the bodice well and fully line it. Then I would make a second tea gown of the red, extend the heck out of the train, cut away the sides below the waist to reveal the under dress, and scallop the edges all the way around the neckline to the floor and add ruffles or pleats (love my pleats!) around the trained portion. Then you have the option of stitching the two pieces together to look like one garment, or just wearing the outer dress over the under dress and closing with the bows at the waist. Really, when you think about it, this is a very simple dress to make!!! The time would be in drafting and mocking up to make sure it all works.

Wow, I like this so much that you may see some incarnation of that on me some day!!!!! (I won't make it red, I promise!) Actually one of my day dresses planned for the convention is very similar to this. Hmmmmmm.

Well, I am looking forward to seeing how this all comes together! Be sure to post pictures of the progress.

Alli

[Slick Vic Ulster Ranger]

Hi Alli, good to see you posting
Vic and Joyce

[Ida Hands]

Good eye, Miss Alli! Teagown sounds like it to me.