Well, it’s not an exact reproduction – but it’s definitely inspired by Happiness! This was constructed for the character of Cinderella in a local production of ‘Into the Woods’. Rather than go traditional Renaissance-esque fairy tale, I decided to set my upper classes in a vaguely Edwardian/Victorian look. I’ve always LOVED the Lucile ‘Happiness’ dress, [...]
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One of the schools I work for is doing a production of JB Priestly’s ‘An Inspector Calls’ in February, and our stock of Edwardian fashion is… non-existent. Since the cast is small, we decided to build the women’s dresses – which means two evening dresses and a maid’s outfit. Exciting! This week, I’ve been working [...]
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Now that we have our first summer show up and running, I get to concentrate on the second summer show – which goes into first dress rehearsal tomorrow! Yikes! The same actress who wore this dress will be in play #2, in a smaller role. She’s playing a tightly-wound British secretary – I envisioned her in [...]
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Well, our play opens tonight – which means that all of my toiles have been turned into garments, and everything is fit and ready to go! Now I get to play catchup and post some fun things. This dress ended up being my absolute favorite – the combination of the dress design and the fabric [...]
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Earlier this month, I posted the first of the toiles I made up for our upcoming production of ‘Fallen Angels’ – an adorable little mid-30′s dress, made using a vintage pattern. Remember? Well, since then we had an initial fitting on the actress – there were some modifications that had to be made, which wasn’t [...]
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In this post I shared the toile I made up using Vogue 8767 – a late 30′s jacket and dress combo. The fitting on the actress went beautifully – the only thing I had to do was nip the jacket in at the waist a little bit. Done in a lightweight silk jacquard – [...]
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I DO actually have some finished pieces… not just muslin toiles! This dress was created for the character of Fraulein Schneider in a local university production of ‘Cabaret’. Although the play is set in 1930/31, I decided to set F. Schneider’s fashion in the mid 20′s – she’s a working class woman, older, and would [...]
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I promise, at some point, these will actually get made up in the actual fabric. I have five toiles to complete, for two actresses – it makes sense to get them all finished and just do a single fitting, as opposed to bringing the actresses in for multiple fittings. But I AM getting tired of [...]
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I work in theatre – and for some reason, last year was the year of the apron. Almost every production I worked on featured aprons of some sort – from mid-19th c. aprons for ‘Jane Eye’ to some super cute 30′s aprons for ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’ and ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’. I used this ad copy [...]
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I’m sewing five 1930′s dresses for our theatre’s production of ‘Fallen Angels’ next month – this next one is using Vogue 8767, from their ‘Vintage Vogue’ line. From the pattern envelope: The finished product will be done in a beautiful red silk jacquard , with sheer red for the jabot. I can’t [...]
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