A group of us went to see My Fair Lady in 1910's costume Saturday night. It was a very good community theater production at a theater built in the 1930's. It's a nice venue, and they're a good community theater group. I particularly liked their Henry Higgins, Mrs. Higgins was very funny, and Freddy Eynsford-Hill did a marvelous job with "On the ( Read more... )

This ended up seeming to be a year of little pieces more than full garments, though I did make costumes from the skin out for the 1690's and 1910's. I did a lot of knitting this year. One of my goals for the year was to do better with my hair for events, and I think I succeeded. There were some hairdos that I was very proud of. I got to go to a ( Read more... )

Saturday night we went to see the Gilbert and Sullivan Society's production of Princess Ida as a costumed group. There were sixteen of us, many of whom were dressed for the period between 1890 and 1925.


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I've got two pictures as a preview of my 1916 evening dress. I'm going to try to get better ones when I wear it to the theater next month.


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I think I just have two snaps, one hook and eye, and seven flowers left to finish my 1916 dress. It should be done before the end of the holiday weekend. Then I think I'll have time to put together a crinoline bustle before CLW, which should pack much more nicely than my petticoat with steels and be more appropriate for the Le Baiser dress anyway ( Read more... )

My project count exploded yesterday. I cut out a pair of shorts from the same pattern that I used for my playsuit shorts last year but in more serviceable brown twill. I cut out three linen Regency bodice linings because it was probably easier to cut three while the linen was out than to get it out again later. I started knitting a vest. So now ( Read more... )

I have finished 1916 underwear. Combinations, corset, two petticoats (one plain and one ruffled), stockings (nylon, but they're opaque and thigh high), and shoes. Now I just need a dress.

And now onto the pictures.

The corset:


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Starting a new period from the skin out is wearying. I've got through the combinations, a corset, one petticoat, and all of a second petticoat save some ruffles at the hem. Now my attention is starting to wander. Maybe you could say it already wandered because I made the ribbon corset recently. Regardless, the motivation for the petticoat ( Read more... )

Disclaimer: I don't know a lot about 1910's/Edwardian/WWI era construction. I've handled a couple of antiques from the first decade of the 20th century. I've read part of a dress-making book published in 1916, but it didn't really handle closures other than to mention either center front or center back for skirts. I know something about 1930's ( Read more... )

I feel that I have accomplished quite a bit lately ( Read more... )