Salome Gown Pt. 1
Alcega Verdugada (Farthingale, Hoop Skirt, or as you like it)
So in an effort to have fabulous garb to equal my good frien klynn330 o that we would be able to sit around and look pretty at 12th Night, and my recent expedition in finding Salome portraits, I decided to try and make the dress in the picture below.
The over dress I am using the patterns I have by Margot Anderson, which are fabulous, and I know fit me well over my corset etc. The hoop skirt, however, I am basing on Alcega's Verdugada pattern, with some mathematical help from this lovely lady at sempstress.org. You should really check out her site, as she has lots of great tutorials for all kinds of historical costuming. And buy her a cup of coffee. :)
So this is the image of Salome I am trying to imitate. I love the whole look of it, and the feeling that this young miss is at the height of fashion. I will slowly be adding accessories, and fancier things to the garb, like the trim on the gown, the chopines (her platform shoes), a fancier chemise, the roll/hat, etc. It will be complete enough to wear and look nice and pretty. And it will eventually become fabulous!
So below are the fabrics I have chosen for this, the closest I could find that I was happy with. The pink I know is 100% silk. The green may be a blend, but it has nice weight and I liked the color.
The main reason for resorting to sempstress.org was to figure out the proper size of the hoops of the skirt for someone of my size. I am not great at trigonometry at all, but this lady is. So I used her cheat sheet for figuring out the hoop sizes. Then I used the translation of Alcega's instructions for piecing it together, mostly the information that no two bias edges should be sewn together. So I sewed the straight part of the A gore the to the straight part of panel A, and the bias side of gore B to the straight side of panel B. This way, the straight side of B gets sewn to the bias side of A, and we avoid the drooping that happens from having two bias edges on a seem. Important when the garment is structural, or so I read. Later on I will be adding images of the strips sewn to the skirt, and how it fits and such. Then on to the over gown!
So in an effort to have fabulous garb to equal my good frien klynn330 o that we would be able to sit around and look pretty at 12th Night, and my recent expedition in finding Salome portraits, I decided to try and make the dress in the picture below.
The over dress I am using the patterns I have by Margot Anderson, which are fabulous, and I know fit me well over my corset etc. The hoop skirt, however, I am basing on Alcega's Verdugada pattern, with some mathematical help from this lovely lady at sempstress.org. You should really check out her site, as she has lots of great tutorials for all kinds of historical costuming. And buy her a cup of coffee. :)
So this is the image of Salome I am trying to imitate. I love the whole look of it, and the feeling that this young miss is at the height of fashion. I will slowly be adding accessories, and fancier things to the garb, like the trim on the gown, the chopines (her platform shoes), a fancier chemise, the roll/hat, etc. It will be complete enough to wear and look nice and pretty. And it will eventually become fabulous!
So below are the fabrics I have chosen for this, the closest I could find that I was happy with. The pink I know is 100% silk. The green may be a blend, but it has nice weight and I liked the color.
The main reason for resorting to sempstress.org was to figure out the proper size of the hoops of the skirt for someone of my size. I am not great at trigonometry at all, but this lady is. So I used her cheat sheet for figuring out the hoop sizes. Then I used the translation of Alcega's instructions for piecing it together, mostly the information that no two bias edges should be sewn together. So I sewed the straight part of the A gore the to the straight part of panel A, and the bias side of gore B to the straight side of panel B. This way, the straight side of B gets sewn to the bias side of A, and we avoid the drooping that happens from having two bias edges on a seem. Important when the garment is structural, or so I read. Later on I will be adding images of the strips sewn to the skirt, and how it fits and such. Then on to the over gown!