The Design
My Line Drawings
The underware. The underware for dress three is the most interesting it is a large crynolyn and a corset.
The Final Dress.
I picked to use floral fabric and ribbon as i thought they worked well with the dress design and as the other dresses i had made were out of fabric other then calico it made sense for this one also to be a patterned fabric.
The siluete was at it's most widest in this point in the nineteenth centure the waist was still small but large crynolyns were used to create a bell shaped skirt. The sleeves were large but pulled in and tied round the cuffs.
This was by far the dress i struggeled with the most most of the dress was fine but the sleeves were a nightmare. I needed to create large puffy sleeves with two layers. I made the sleeves large and added netting to make them stand out but all the fabric made the sleeves too heavey and the kept dropping i was really disapointed and if i made the sleeves again i would use less fabric and lots of netting. I think the sleeves look a bit ridiculous to be honest.
The jacket Started off well but at the back there are two pleated pannels giving the dress a flared back i really struggeled to make these fit and they definetly didn't match well. Because of this the center back pannel on the dress was slightly lopsided and when i added the ribbon to the dress this emphasied the angle.
The dress has a lot of pleats this seems a common feature in the 19th century. Tis dress used lots of box pleats for deatail but it also added to the siluet shape creating a curved neckline ect.
The skirt i thought would be easy. I imagined just draping fabric round the crynolyn. But the pleated pannels pulled away from each other and revealing gaps in the fabric. To solve this i put pannels of fabric behind the top pannels to save the bussel being revealed. The skirt had pleat like triangels on the bottom witch i added as i thought they were a more important to the design. I'm not quite sue howw these were made so i took my initutive and use pleated triangles of fabric to represent these.I think i would have to play around with trial and error to find the best method.
My overall feeling to start with was rather disapointing this kept going well but the more i persited the better it went.
