Cats Costumery | Making a Victorian Day Dress | historybounding @CatsCostumery | Uploaded July 2020 | Updated October 2024, 37 minutes ago.
Hello everyone and welcome to a new video!
As I mention in the video, I was really digging the prairie aesthetic after binge watching the latest season of Anne with an E. After doing some digging around, I found that these prairie dresses could also be called/were similar to workdresses, working dresses or wrapper dresses (it is not uncommon for items in the 19th century to have 439 different names - they probably had minute differences that were common knowledge, but sadly not to me).
I found a couple of examples of 1890s workdresses (I've picked this term out of the list above) and got to work. My two main inspirations are the two blue dresses in the video (which also give me Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle vibes?), so when I saw this patterned blue cotton fabric, I thought it was perfect for a modern, historybounding version. These dresses seem to be loose fitting garments, kind of like nightgowns almost, which have a tie at the waist and some decorative features on the yokes and cuffs. I've also made mine shorter just for day to day wear. I think the dress ended up with more of a 'Victorian in the city' vibe, than a prairie vibe, so I will attempt this again but with a softer, more neutral fabric :)
Over all, this was a super easy dress to make! If you wanted to try but are not sure of drafting your own pattern, here are some options (please keep in mind I haven't personally used these patterns!):
Laughing Moon pattern lafnmoon.com/product_p/p120.htm
Folkwear's Prairie dress pattern folkwear.com/collections/vintage/products/201-prairie-dress?variant=35177737358
And the pattern I frankensteined to make my own:
folkwear.com/collections/vintage/products/205-gibson-girl-blouse?variant=35447539726
Things mentioned in the video:
Gibson Girl Blouse video youtube.com/watch?v=KrmeGHBjdTg
@Lee-am 's video (with the amazing button placket installation) youtube.com/watch?v=Jt5JG2A7yIk
If you are interested in seeing some more of my work, here are some links:
Please consider supporting me on Patreon, patreon.com/catscostumery :)
Instagram: @catscostumery
instagram.com/catscostumery
Blog: happilyevertaffeta.wordpress.com
Facebook: facebook.com/catscostumery
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/V7V7HRLN
For business inquiries, email catscostumery@makrwatch.com
Hello everyone and welcome to a new video!
As I mention in the video, I was really digging the prairie aesthetic after binge watching the latest season of Anne with an E. After doing some digging around, I found that these prairie dresses could also be called/were similar to workdresses, working dresses or wrapper dresses (it is not uncommon for items in the 19th century to have 439 different names - they probably had minute differences that were common knowledge, but sadly not to me).
I found a couple of examples of 1890s workdresses (I've picked this term out of the list above) and got to work. My two main inspirations are the two blue dresses in the video (which also give me Sophie from Howl's Moving Castle vibes?), so when I saw this patterned blue cotton fabric, I thought it was perfect for a modern, historybounding version. These dresses seem to be loose fitting garments, kind of like nightgowns almost, which have a tie at the waist and some decorative features on the yokes and cuffs. I've also made mine shorter just for day to day wear. I think the dress ended up with more of a 'Victorian in the city' vibe, than a prairie vibe, so I will attempt this again but with a softer, more neutral fabric :)
Over all, this was a super easy dress to make! If you wanted to try but are not sure of drafting your own pattern, here are some options (please keep in mind I haven't personally used these patterns!):
Laughing Moon pattern lafnmoon.com/product_p/p120.htm
Folkwear's Prairie dress pattern folkwear.com/collections/vintage/products/201-prairie-dress?variant=35177737358
And the pattern I frankensteined to make my own:
folkwear.com/collections/vintage/products/205-gibson-girl-blouse?variant=35447539726
Things mentioned in the video:
Gibson Girl Blouse video youtube.com/watch?v=KrmeGHBjdTg
@Lee-am 's video (with the amazing button placket installation) youtube.com/watch?v=Jt5JG2A7yIk
If you are interested in seeing some more of my work, here are some links:
Please consider supporting me on Patreon, patreon.com/catscostumery :)
Instagram: @catscostumery
instagram.com/catscostumery
Blog: happilyevertaffeta.wordpress.com
Facebook: facebook.com/catscostumery
Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/V7V7HRLN
For business inquiries, email catscostumery@makrwatch.com
