Tissot Dress and Hatching Plans
Tissot Dress
I've always loved Tissot's painting Too Early from 1873. And then one day I decided 'to hell with it, I'm going to make the pink dress'. And then mandie_rw wanted in and somehow a group formed that is making all the dresses in the painting. There's no specified timeline, but I'd like to have my dress done in time for Dress U (as I'm currently in grad school, this may or may not happen). Eventually it'd be fun to get everyone together and recreate the painting! Like those crazy Eugenie project people.
So anyways, for those unfamiliar with the painting, I'm making this:
And this isn't the only time this dress appears in Tissot's art. I have a theory that Tissot had a little book with pictures of dresses in it and he just picked randomly from it. Here is a painting called Hush.
On the left, the woman closest to the violinist is wearing the same pink dress. And if you look closely at the right hand corner, you can see the ruffles of the pink dress again. How embarrassing for those two women to show up in the same outfit! But naturally there's no clear view of the front, so I get to choose the design. I recently came upon this painting from 1877 and fell in love.
My only question is, do you think the design will work with the early 1870s? I know that seems like a stupid question, but I'd hate to be flouncing around in my pink frills and all of a sudden a Victorian Costume Nazi comes up and says that that particular bodice design didn't become popular until the end of the decade and I should have known that because I'm studying to be a professional fashion historian and my MA is officially revoked and I am shunned by costumers forever. Because that happens.
Anyways. I've already got ten yards of pink organdy although I know I'm going to need more. And I'm currently hunting for cotton in the perfect shade of pink to make the under layer. The organdy is really pale so I wanted to make an under layer in a color, so the pink would really pack a punch, as opposed to boring white.
And I can't decide between ruffles or pleats for the strips along the bottom. My head says ruffles but my heart says pleats.
And a new and dastardly plan!
In addition to that project, I have also recently decided that the early 18th century gets no love at all and I am going to change that. For some strange reason, no one has ever made one of these:
Well I intend to change that! After the Tissot dress is done, this is my next project. I haven't decided on colors or decorations yet, but I do have some ideas churning. The colors will probably be in the cool family (blues, greens, and/or purples) as those look best on me.
I've always loved Tissot's painting Too Early from 1873. And then one day I decided 'to hell with it, I'm going to make the pink dress'. And then mandie_rw wanted in and somehow a group formed that is making all the dresses in the painting. There's no specified timeline, but I'd like to have my dress done in time for Dress U (as I'm currently in grad school, this may or may not happen). Eventually it'd be fun to get everyone together and recreate the painting! Like those crazy Eugenie project people.
So anyways, for those unfamiliar with the painting, I'm making this:
And this isn't the only time this dress appears in Tissot's art. I have a theory that Tissot had a little book with pictures of dresses in it and he just picked randomly from it. Here is a painting called Hush.
On the left, the woman closest to the violinist is wearing the same pink dress. And if you look closely at the right hand corner, you can see the ruffles of the pink dress again. How embarrassing for those two women to show up in the same outfit! But naturally there's no clear view of the front, so I get to choose the design. I recently came upon this painting from 1877 and fell in love.
My only question is, do you think the design will work with the early 1870s? I know that seems like a stupid question, but I'd hate to be flouncing around in my pink frills and all of a sudden a Victorian Costume Nazi comes up and says that that particular bodice design didn't become popular until the end of the decade and I should have known that because I'm studying to be a professional fashion historian and my MA is officially revoked and I am shunned by costumers forever. Because that happens.
Anyways. I've already got ten yards of pink organdy although I know I'm going to need more. And I'm currently hunting for cotton in the perfect shade of pink to make the under layer. The organdy is really pale so I wanted to make an under layer in a color, so the pink would really pack a punch, as opposed to boring white.
And I can't decide between ruffles or pleats for the strips along the bottom. My head says ruffles but my heart says pleats.
And a new and dastardly plan!
In addition to that project, I have also recently decided that the early 18th century gets no love at all and I am going to change that. For some strange reason, no one has ever made one of these:
Well I intend to change that! After the Tissot dress is done, this is my next project. I haven't decided on colors or decorations yet, but I do have some ideas churning. The colors will probably be in the cool family (blues, greens, and/or purples) as those look best on me.