A Fitted English Gown
Status: Finished
Links and References:
Jane Stockton’s: In Prayse of the Needle Middle Class Elizabethan Clothing
Tudor and Elizabethan Portraits: 1565-1575
Links and References:
Jane Stockton’s: In Prayse of the Needle Middle Class Elizabethan Clothing
Tudor and Elizabethan Portraits: 1565-1575
[…] Mostly the project went together fairly easily. We had a couple of hangups (I lost almost 20 lbs during the course of the pattern fitting, which threw some things off. I ended up having to alter down the size 16. Had I known what my final size would be, I should have started with the 12. No way to predict that at all.). I made my standard narrow shoulder/center back seam alterations to the bodice, and fiddled a bit with the fit of the cut-on stand collar, thanks to coaching from Jenn at Centuries Sewing. […]
[…] so we should be able to manage it! We are inspired by some stellar versions made by friends, like Centuries Sewing and Silverstah (Laura’s was the first I’d seen that was A […]