I’ve made three English Fitted Gowns based on the Tudor Tailor’s pattern so far, and with each one I’ve tweaked how I’ve put them together.
Issue one: Sleeve Dimples
Tag: costume
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Fitting Points on the Tudor Tailor’s English Fitted Gown
Light weight worsted wool gown lined with linen rayon blend 
Black Velvet “Mockado” Gown lined with cotton broadcloth 
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I’m adding this to my “must make one day” list
From a recent Christie’s auction, Follower of Francesco Salviati del Rossi Portrait of a Lady.
From a recent Christie’s auction, posted to wikimedia, found via the Elizabethan Costume group on Facebook. -
Green Tudor/Henrician Gown Finished!
Here is a run down of all the layers.
Cotton/linen smock: Machine sewn with hand finished seams and hems.
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Cuffs: Machine “blackwork” with silk thread, hand hemmed, they lace on to the smock cuffs with fingerloop braid so I can change them out as needed and wash them separately.
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Brian Froud’s Costume Sketches from Labyrinth
Brian Froud -Woman Ballroom Costume Design I Labyrinth, 1984 Graphite, ink 16 x 20″ I ran across this a few weeks ago, a gallery in NYC is showing the Froud’s work. Including sketches from The Good and Bad Fairy Book, Dark Crystal, a few things I don’t recognize and of course Labyrinth.
I am not located in NYC, nor am I heading up there any time soon. So I’m quite happy to see the collection is online and even better the costume designs for the ballroom dancers are included, along with Jareth’s armor/coat, goblins, and other assorted puppets.
This will making coming up with my own inspired version easier. Time to break out my pencils and water-color.
Labyrinth Copyright © The Jim Henson Company
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Labyrinth Costume Research
I’m plotting a Labyrinth ball gown costume and took a few screen caps to use as references. Some of the skirts seem to have net petticoats underneath, others none at all. The bodices on the gowns vary from princess seamed to fitted panels with draped layers. Shot silk looked like the main fabric, along with various damasks an in one case some type of vinyl.
Now I just need to sketch some ideas.
Labyrinth Copyright © The Jim Henson Company
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A Pair of Bodies: Finished
Another project off my list. I worked on this off and on for several months. A majority of the construction was done over the course of a week. The actual finishing like the eyelets and binding and the busk took far longer then sewing the boning channels.
Two layers of cotton duck with the outer layer of red cotton sateen (standing in for silk, ask my cat about it). Hand sewn with black silk thread. Self made bias tape, and hand sewn eyelets with matching cotton floss.
The pattern is my usual bodice block. It is boned with cable ties, the boning diagram is rough nod to Pfaltzgrafin Dorothea Sabine von Neuberg’s corset.
