Well I've pretty much resigned myself to not getting this finished in time for the contest deadline. I'm still hoping to enter, just with a much plainer entry. Here's the plan:

• Combinations - complete
• Corset - complete
• Train supporter - complete
• Petticoat - complete
• Skirt - complete except for trimming
  

More progress on the DPP. I finished up the corset and the train supporter and took pictures of half of a paper petticoat I sized up from The Cut of Women's Clothes.

( Lots of pictures! )

In preparation for my Douple Period Project entry I did a mockup of my hair today. I used the series of articles poublished in YWU as my starting point and source for ispiration. For the hair pieces I used two straight falls that look like this. Mine are synthetic and I got them a couple of years ago when I worked in a costume shop. I twisted both ( Read more... )