Sunday, October 18, 2009

It's MINE!

It was a hard bidding fight, but I finally won the fabulous fabric for 450 SEK!
So now I got 9. 75 m (= 10.6 yards) of pink striped silk goodness!
The only caveat is the with of it, it's only 90 cm but I can make an "polonaised" anglaise with shorter over skirt. I've seen it done in both extant garments and in fashion plates from the time :P
Weee I really need to finish my blue outfit so I can start this one!

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6 comments:

  1. Madame BergOctober 18, 2009 at 10:09 PM

    Congratulations!

    For my striped not-a-polonaise I used 10 mtrs of 90 cm width fabric and that was well enough for both gown and petticoat!

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  2. Lithia BlackOctober 18, 2009 at 10:21 PM

    Thank you :)

    Ah, but the stripes on my fabric is running horizontal. So if I want a petticoat with stripes running length wise I can only get 90 cm skirt length...and I have looong legs :)

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  3. BrookeOctober 18, 2009 at 10:31 PM

    Oh how wonderful that you got the fabric!!

    I know it doesn't really fit with your design, but I know I've seen a French fashion plate where all the stripes of the gown run horizontal instead of vertical...but I've never seen anyone actually do it. Of course now that I'm looking for it I can't actually find that image...

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  4. Lithia BlackOctober 18, 2009 at 10:37 PM

    Mantuamaker >>
    My design ideas is never written in stone:)
    If you find the plate I'd love to see it!

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  5. BrookeOctober 18, 2009 at 11:05 PM

    So I found the image...the gown is much fuller and flouncier than your design, but is a good example how once and awhile horizontal stripes where in fashion...now if I only could find and extant gown with them I would be very happy.

    http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=312676&coll_keywords=Gallerie+des+Modes&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=0&coll_sort_order=0&coll_view=0&coll_package=0&coll_start=161

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  6. Lithia BlackOctober 19, 2009 at 8:42 AM

    Mantuamaker >>

    Oh, my that was frilly galore :D
    I used to be a Gothic Lolita before and even those dresses are that frilly :P

    But it is very pretty. My french is not so very good anymore but is it a correct assumption that the white parts of the dress are made of silk gauze?

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