Spinning Jenny: A Complete Outfit for an Industrial Revolutionary

[squintywitch]

This is a dress diary for a 1785 working woman's outfit - my entry to the http://www.yourwardrobeunlockd.com/ Double Period Project, where the challenge is to make a costume based on the Revolutionary Period of history (1770-1789). It's already been posted in installments on dressdiaries, but

Comments

[kurenai_tenka]

You look ridiculously cute in those pictures! Incidentally, so does Julia, aww...

The dress is fantastic! I especially can't believe you did all that embroidery, especially just for a pocket! It looks absolutely brilliant! <3

[squintywitch]

Thank you! The stays and the pocket took about four times as long as everything else put together...

[velvet_the_cat]

Stunning. :o)

[squintywitch]

Thank you :)

[hederaivy]

This is a lovely ensemble. You did wonderful work on it.
Julia's dress is cute, too.

A yard is about 3 inches less than a metre. (I work in both, too. Blame it on Holland.)

"fulled, napped and sheared" Fulled I know (people insist on calling it "felted" over here and it drives me nuts), but what are and how do you nap and shear?

[squintywitch]

Napped is when the wool fabric is combed to raise a pile, like velvet. Then it gets sheared very short - it's apparently how you get that dense, felted look on broadcloth and Melton. And it's very warm, too.

Glad you like the gear!

[honeypossum]

What an incredible project! It looks amazing. I also learned a thing about 18th c. underwear too :)

[squintywitch]

Thsnk you! Truly I am a font of trivia!

[smokingboot]

Lovely details, I adore the pocket! But mainly these shots remind me of how pretty you are - shallow but there you go - and surprise me with the intense blue of Julia's eyes.

[squintywitch]

Thank you- Ms Boot is too kind!

(We feed Spice to Julia regularly.)