Making a Celestial Gown Fit for a Queen || Sewing an Edwardian Ball Gown Part 1: The Skirt
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
- It was such a blast to make this gown with my friend Astraea! Be sure to check her out at / queen_astraea and on YT @Queen_Astraea , as well as her instagram: / queen_astraea
Contest Rules: Must be over 14 years old, live in a country that allows mail. To enter, answer the question I ask in the video, and wait one week. On 4/6/2024, I'll pick three comments at random and respond with instructions on how to get your prize.
In this video, I talk about the plan of making this 1901-1903 dress, the ideas that Astraea and I had. I then go into the history of Charles Worth and his House of Worth. I do go into the history of dresses and how it really is the history of women's work that was then usurped by Worth, and how fashion has never recovered from this. After that, I look in detail inot the dresses that Astraea picked, and then I make the dress, using machine embroidery, digitization, metallic threads, and a lot of hand sewing! Finally, Astraea will put on the dress and show us how it looks on!
I am in fact a Baby Lock Ambassador and these are the machines I use: @Baby Lock Sewing Machines
Embroidery Machine: Venture: babylock.com/machines/multi-n...
Sewing Machine: Soprano: babylock.com/machines/sewing/...
Serger: Victory: babylock.com/machines/serger/...
Digitizing Software: Palette 11: babylock.com/accessories/soft...
What I'm wearing today:
Dress from I Do Declare - www.idodeclareshop.com/
Sources:
Original Butterfly Gown by Worth at the Met: www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...
Original Celestial Gown by Worth at the Met:
www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...
Original Wheat Gown by Worth at the Met
www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...
Materials I used:
Blue fabric:
nydesignerfabrics.com/collect...
White fabric: nydesignerfabrics.com/collect...
Hot Fix Rhinestones:
shop.rhinestoneguy.com/precio...
Lace: www.etsy.com/listing/78789668...
Straps: www.etsy.com/listing/73812387...
Thread:
www.madeirausa.com/metallic/?...
Hot Fix Tool: amzn.to/3TTCQh8
Other tools (Affiliate links where available)
My favorite chalk pen: amzn.to/3zURGrP
American Duchess book: amzn.to/3CQhS7f
Cut of Women's Clothes: amzn.to/3EQTswp
Simflex Sewing Gauge: amzn.to/3geL8ul
Clover Button Hole Cutter amzn.to/36K0TpZ
Clover Tapered Awl amzn.to/3tP7989
Extremely large (40"x60") cutting mat - amzn.to/37GZYG4
The incredible pin dish that I use thanks to @Costuming Drama - amzn.to/3mMgcUT
Hot Fix Tool: amzn.to/3TTCQh8
Ruler - amzn.to/32YNIiV
Favorite Needles for hand sewing: Tulip Sewing Needles - size 8-10
Favorite Thread for sewing:
www.superiorthreads.com/threa...
Source for Shoes: Americanduchess.com who has their own channel: @American Duchess
Favorite Thimbles from: www.etsy.com/shop/NSMCreative...
Wall mural from Limitless walls
Me in different realms:
Blog: www.Sewstine.com
Shop: sewstine.etsy.com/
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Other site: www.sewstineart.com/
Music from ArtList - Jak na to + styl
Hi everyone! Thank you for watching!
Contest rules: must be over 14, I will respond on April 6th letting you know you’re a winner in the comments and how to get me your info! The winner will receive a huswiff mailed to you with the same embroidery and out of the same materials as Astraea’s gown!
If you want to just buy one or one of a different design, you can always drop by my Etsy shop! I will be carrying this design til I run out of excess materials.
www.etsy.com/listing/1674088010/travel-sewing-kit-or-huswiff-embroidered
I have subscribed to Astraea because anyone who can appreciate beauty and still enjoy twerking is someone that I wish to follow on You Tube.
Ma'am I have never clicked on a video so fast - I am HERE for this collab
Thank you!!! :D
@@Sewstine Just coming back in cause I've finished watching the video... and I HAVE to say that that dress looks so gorgeous! And the embroidery looks so fantastic - it has me in awe.
I adore Edwardian gowns (I'm blaming Titanic and Crimson Peak for this partially) so seeing any being recreated or replicated is exciting to me, so thank you for sharing!
My health has been horrid and I haven't been watching CZcams videos much lately but saw this and screamed and immediately clicked!!
I think my dream dress would be from 2002 Barbie as Rapunzel, the dress she paints into reality for the masquerade! The way they animated the glittery sheer overlay on the skirt and the poofy fairytale sleeves, how could my inner child ever resist!
That one is beautiful 🥰
I love how when you said "I bet you didn't know that Queen Astrea-" it cut off in a way that makes it sound like a (joking) threat 😂 like "she WILL be on CZcams now, whether she knows it or not"
I hope she is on CZcams soon.
My dream dress is Princess Buttercup's blue wedding gown. 😍
As a beekeeper, I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with the bee dress
Eiko Ishioka was a visionary, excellent choices.
These stars are so amazing. My heart stopped! My dream gown is probably Galadriel's gown from the Peter Jackman's Lord of the Rings. Or, a simple medieval kirtle.
As for my dream outfit, I would say Bilbo's patchwork robe from the first Hobbit movie! I love hobbit fashion in general and would love to dress more like it some day, but the robe is very daunting for my disabled self especially because I love hand sewing everything 😅
That sounds so cozy 🥰
If you ever get serious about it Vincent Briggs has a video about making his czcams.com/video/8LLJd70Yt_A/video.html&ab_channel=VincentBriggs . He did use a sewing machine, but was very slow and methodical about it so I don't think it would be thaaaat much of a time difference. So much ironing.
If sewing all the tiny pieces of fabric together is too tedious, maybe try finding a couple big vintage quilt blankets secondhand and use them as fabric for your robe? At least you'd have the fabric part covered.
My dream gown would be Sailor Moon's original princess gown. I fell in love with it when I was 13. I adore the regency cut of it and the way it flows. The best part was the embroidered bodice with silver threads and pearls. So elegant and so ethereal. Your gown is definitely elegant and those clouds are perfection
I love all of Julias dresses in the Murdock Mysteries . Most things she wears are the walking skirts, blouse, vest, jacket.
She wore a green gown, a wedding gown and the RED one with the fringe lace shoulders...oooh la la !
I would die for a more historical Sophie Hatter dress. A lot of people have reimagined it as more Victorian or Edwardian. Would love to Embroider it with the shooting stars on the bodice or top of the skirt and the flower garden beneath
My dream gown actually showed up in this video. Worths Ironwork gown. I'd be married and buried in that gown if I could. Australia doesn't have much Art Nouveau architecture, and what little does exist is protected under heritage law and is predominantly iron work. So I've always loved wrought iron design and that dress couldn't be more perfect in my eyes.
Beautiful video, I'm so excited to see the full gown
It's actually really hard to pick the dream dress to be made by you because there are so many options. One of my dream dresses is Claire's wedding dress from Outlander.
Your work, as always, turned out breathtakingly gorgeous
The only dress I could think of would be something similar to the Breathe dress from Ever After. But I would modify it into shades of blue and silver, and give it a more celestial feel. Stars are one of my favourite things to add to anything. Art, fashion, a little doodle while on the phone... so plenty of stars would have to be on there
I don't know if this counts, but the dress Audrey Hepburn wore to the race track in My Fair Lady is a gown I've always loved! It's so detailed, and the hat was just icing on the cake!
My dream dress would be the one from Ever After with the wings and everything! I've adored that dress from the first time I saw it!
I love this one as well ❤️ so gorgeous ❤
My dream dress would be Danielle’s just breath dress. The way the lace and fabric come together is perfection and then there are the beautiful wings and of course the shoes. My favorite part of the trim on the dress is actually the metalwork embroidery and it is a hobby I would love to learn.
Sewstine, this gown is AMAZING! Your content has grown exponentially in a relatively short time. You've really nailed the visualization to the creation process and are able to communicate well with your audience with excellent narration, audio, and visual details. If I could have you create only one gown for me, it would have to be the white gown with rows of pearls worn by Belgian Princess Carlota, whose husband was the Austrian Archduke (and brother of Emperor Franz Josef) Maximilian. Carlota and her husband were pawns in an attempt for Napoleon to grab power in Mexico in 1864 when the couple was installed as Emperor and Empress. Carlota ruled as Regent in absence of her husband in Mexico City and is considered the first woman ruler in the Americas.
Carlota operated in circles with Empress Eugenie, who was known for her collection of Worth gowns. It is unknown if the white gown Carlota wears in her formal portrait is in fact from CF Worth, but it is highly probable. I first saw this gown in the April 1964 edition of the American Heritage collection. That would be my dream gown!❤
My dream gown is either Cinderella's gown from the 2015 live action movie or the blue gown Marie Antoinette is wearing when she first arrives at Versailles from the 2006 movie. Marie Antoinette's dresses are all to die for, but I've always been partial to blue. The 2015 Cinderella gown was the highlight of the movie for me, especially since I found so many of Disney's recent live action films to be lacking in both plot and visuals. It's still a dream of mine to be able to afford a princess gown and have some where to wear it to.
My dream gown would be Diva Plavalaguna‘s dress from the fifth element. I could imagine doing the black parts with the sigils of each element in a, like, rubberized thread! Sci fi costumes are so under appreciated!
My dream embroidered garment is one that doesn't exist yet, but should. In Baroness Orczy's 1905 novel The Scarlet Pimpernel, a "humble English wayside flower" is the symbol of a masked hero who saves people from the guillotine. At one point, Lady Marguerite thinks, "Had not everybody about town recently made a point of affecting the device of that mysterious and heroic Scarlet Pimpernel? Did she not herself wear it embroidered on her gowns?" And yet, I have never seen a film/tv/stage adaptation where the costume designer incorporated embroidered pimpernel motifs! I always imagined Marguerite's dress as a white and red zone front gown, lavishly embroidered with stylized pimpernel flowers and twining green vines around the hem. I've been picturing this for a dozen years, and wish I could make it--but though I sew, my embroidery skills are sadly lacking, so I'll leave it to Sewstine!
My dream gown is Padmé Amidala’s wedding gown and veil. It’s so intricate with lace and embroidery and the sleeves are so overlooked.
This is such a good one! ❤
If I could have any dress, I don't even think it'd be the gown that'd be the most decorated! I'm kind of obsessed with early 1500s dress, but specifically, those extremely embroidered chemises that are so incredibly over the top, with cutouts for lace and blackwork all across the sleeves and bodice. Barely anyone would even see most of it! That is like, the epitomy of the Dream Dress and it technically isn't even a dress, but that's my idea of luxury: frilly underwear from 500 years ago
WOW this skirt is literally breathtaking I can’t even imagine what the bodice is going to look like I CANT WAIT!!! One of my favourite dresses actually from my house of worth book is the wedding dress worn by Clara Mathews (illegitimate daughter of Isaac Merritt Singer, the sewing machine pioneer) for her marriage to Colonel Hugh STAFFORD IN 1880. It is such a beautiful dress full of ruffles, embroidery and loads of beaded fringe. It really is a beautiful dress which I will one day get time to make for myself.
Firstly, that skirt is beautiful! The stars, clouds, and raindrop-like lace all go so well together, and even though I would also have loved to see the skirt made in a midnight blue colour (I can't imagine how beautiful it would be with a skirt that looked like a night filled with stars) I really like that the white clouds aren't a sudden contrast against a very dark background, but rather a subtle break from the light blue and a fitting transition into the lace.
Secondly, for the dress I would prefer, it was a pretty close call between Maria's pink rose gown from The Secret of Moonacre and Zelda's royal dress from Breath of the Wild, but I will have to go with Zelda's dress. Though it isn't possible to tell what materials and techniques would have been used to make the dress in real life from the game itself, I like to think that the details on the dress would include goldwork embroidery and beading.
oh man it's incredibly hard to choose! i think my dream dress would be the pink dress from "diamond's are a girl's best friend" with, of course, a diamond embroidery theme!
I don't necessarily have a dream gown but that bee gown makes my heart flutter. Can't wait to see your version!
As for dream dress - omg that's such a hard question! But, I've always wanted to make an Edwardian evening gown with the sheer black layers and lace details... I can imagine it with an Alexander Mcqueen-inspired intricacy to the lace and beading.
I would definitely love a gown from the film Forever Amber!!! I would love poppies to be embroidered on the gown for sure!
The garment that has taken up space in my head since the mid 1980s is a kimono that is completely shibori dyed with a river curving and flowing over one shoulder to the floor through a green field with tiny wild flowers. I took course in that technique but never got close to making anything remotely close. And then i got allergic to the dye chemicals.
The skirt is stunning and i absolutely love the clouds and agree about his popcorn clouds.
My dream dress is the red Christmas party dress worn Judy Garland in Meet Me in St Louis. I've loved it since i first saw it and think the shape is just timeless. It's so simple but just beautiful.
❤❤❤Fellow subscribers how many of you was smileing has you wrote down your dream dress 😊 Everyone have a lovely weekend❤❤❤
the dress the warden wears in Chicago while sing "when your good to mama". the way the dress shimmers with every movement, the flowing of the fabric. it looks like a dragons hoard of gold given life and ive always liked things that were shiny
This may be a bit cliché, but I never moved on from the witchy gothic aesthetic that first got me interested in historical dress. My dream gown would we black and grey, and the skirt would have an overlay of either embroidery or lace in the shape of spiderwebs. I want to be the creepy ghost in the attic!
My fantasy outfit would be the blue velvet suit with silver embroidery Tom Cruise wears in Interview with the Vampire. I've always wanted to do a male Cinderella in that outfit and make myself a pair of "glass" dancing slippers for it.
I would looove a take on disneys' rapunzel but in dark blue!! A ballgown version of her purple day dress with hidden Pascal embroidered motifs would be so much fun!!
Love your videos and hope you and your family are well! ❤️
My dream dress would be Anastasia's yellow dress from the Once Upon a December scene! That dress is so magical and I imagine in real life it would twinkle and sparkle ✨
Mine would be the red dress from North and South. It's simply stunning.
omg sewstine, this video was exactly what i needed today! the skirt came out beautifully, and i have absolutely no doubt that the bodice is equally stunning, im so excited to see it!
i think a mutual friend of ours recently told you that you were my biggest inspiration to learn how to sew, and yes, wow, yes, this is absolute role model status work lmao
that being said! for the giveaway! not to be a debbie downer, but one of the reasons i wanted to learn how to sew on my own was that mass produced women’s clothing simply isn’t made for my body - so much so that it took me about 27 years to learn that, yes, that’s how that sentence should go. they aren’t made for MY body, but my body is not the problem!
i have never gotten to feel like a princess, ive never gotten to live the cottagecore dream of laying in my flower garden with a pretty dress and a book, because… i don’t own a dress.
as a tall plus sized girl, they simply don’t fit. waistlines never sit at my waist, hems are always too short, bust lines don’t line up correctly, it’s absolutely the worst and murder on my confidence.
so if i could have you make one outfit for me, it’d simply be a pretty dress that fits. for that top quality sewstine embroidery work, moons and stars to represent my dog and my cats, my little babies!
sorry for the extremely long post, but i wanted my entry to double as a thank you! thank you for showing people of all body types that the dream of perfectly fitting clothing is in reach if we dedicate ourselves to a skill, if that skill brings us joy.
i’m moving next month, but intend to start my journey of really buckling down in june to learn the basics, and i’ll be starting with your ghiblicore dresses for my first major project once i learn, and i’m looking forward to learning, and improving, and designing things i love!
the clothing industry may not be built for me, but i can build what i want myself, and thank you for showing me that! 🥺
Your clouds are beautiful. The stars a wonderful. The fabric is gorgeous. Love seeing your process! Salt is earned, Worth’s embroidery is lacking, in my opinion. The lace you found is gorgeous. Love the stars and rhinestones….wow! Love the gown. I would love the strawberry gown, because it makes me happy. It is a summer dream, colorful and beautiful movement. It makes me want to dance, to picnic, to laugh and enjoy the day. Beautiful! Thanks for the beautiful videos. Always inspired by your videos. 🎉❤🎉❤
My dream would be a Eigenkleid in the style of Anna Muthesius. She wanted to make women to be their own desingers. She was part of the dressreform movement in Germany in the early 1900s. My greatgandmother was one of the first women in Munich to wear Reformdress. She never could aford a model from Muthesius, being a workingclass singel mum. But she must have had dreams.
You said mid April, I'm starting a countdown! I just LOVE everything about this dress, it's exquisite, the work, the talent, the craftsmanship. I truly want to learn how to sew, and design, and you're an inspiration!
My dream dress, which I hope to someday make myself, is an 1899 blue going away dress (a dress worn to leave your wedding) in the Glasgow Mueseum's collection. It is the most perfect steampunky masterpiece and someday it will be mine.
My favorite outfit is from Howl's Moving Castle, more precisely the first jacket we see Howl wearing. I've seen cosplays of this jacket with a lot of intricate details, and I have simply fallen in love with it. Some add beads and embroidery to the panels, which gives it an even more luxurious aspect !
In reference to unsigned work, the National Gallery of Canada at some point in the recent past has relabelled things from "Artist Unknown" to "Artist Once Known". It's a small change, but it feels different. Especially when you see it on art traditionally created by women or other marginalized people.
I’ve always wanted Wizard robes like Gilderoy Lockhart from the HP movies, I know that we JKR is super problematic, but I do love the movie costumes.
Dream outfit!! Sarah's school uniform from A Little Princess. The olive green collar with the embroidery is just soooo good.
This is completely incredible. My dream gown would definitely be some kind of fairycore version of a Victorian evening gown, forest green and sparkly with embroidered moon motifs, maybe luna moths. And wings!
I am truely, truely amazed! This skirt is so beautiful I am speechless! I have never seen such complex and beautifully executed sewing and detail work. 🥰🥰🥰
❤❤❤My Dream dress would a 16th century dress with the built in cape .l get married next year .l would love it to be gray and silver with lace and sparkles .haha am smileing has l write down my dream dress .l would wear it with a diamond encrusted crown with a very light colour gray vail with a sparkle here and there .with the lace sleeves with light gray lace. And bows and ribbons. Enbroded with silver .sewstine you have my mind in over drive 😂😂The last 7 years have been so hard l lost my daughter at the age of 26 to cystic fibrosis then l found out l had stage 4 bowl cancer. I am now cancer free and have been with my shaun 12 years but that much has happened we are only just getting married next year .This has made me so happy writeing down my Dream dress Thank you for getting my mind on my dreams .The dress you have just made is one of my favourite creations that you have made all the lace and sparkles are just magical. I am so happy you are makeing yourself one and am looking forward to seeing the top part .have a lovely weekend ❤❤❤
Wedding dress?
If I could have you make any gown for me, it would for sure be the coronation gown from the end of the ‘97 Anastasia film but I would want it to be more like the actual Russian Imperial court dress before the Royal family was deposed. Those dresses are stunning and have so much embroidery done on them, so I imagine it would be right up your alley too! I hope one day to be able to go to the museum in Russia and see what has survived like the coronation gown of Tsarina Alexandra and dresses worn by the daughters. I’ve seen photos and I just wish I could go in person and see them up close to get a better idea of how they might have been made. But I can’t wait to see how this dress is going to come out that soft blue is just perfect for The Queen and I am so curious and excited to see how your dress with all the bees will come out too! Never realized I hadn’t subscribed but boy am I now because I need to see these gowns and hear more Shade being thrown on Worth lol.
Dream gown is the “Just Breathe” dress from Ever After. Rachel Maksey recreated it recently and made it seem so attainable. Maybe one day! 💪🏽🤷♀️
I have adored Rose's boarding day dress from the moment I first saw it!
I'm a sucker for structured and crisp lines, and that whole look is perfection in my eyes!
I have always loved the black and white evening gown that Audrey Hepburn wears in Sabrina. It is beautiful and so striking!
I would love a dress inspired by Arachne the Weaver from Greek Mythos. In her competition with Athena she made a tapestry of the gods and their follies. Honestly a spider dress with Greek iconography like that would be so cool. I think fashion (especially embroidery) should tell stories more often!
The way I would give my first born for this gown 😍
Yet another F A N T A S T I C garment. It looks like an absolute dream.
As far as my dream dress goes...its honestly a toss up between an existing historical garment and a movie dress. For the historical garment it is the beautiful Orange and Cream Worth ballgown with that beautiful big skirt. But as far as movie dresses go the movie accurate Just Breathe dress from Ever After still lives rent free in my head.
My dream dress would have to be the yellow ball gown from the live action Beauty and the Beast - the colour, the details, Emma Watson's spirit, and the right amount of swish to feel romatic while dancing!
My dream dress would be some combination of Cinderella's and the Fairy Godmother's gowns from the 1997 Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella movie. I've loved Cinderella's gown since I was a kid, but as I've gotten older, I've grown more fond of owning something like the Fairy Godmother's dress that is just as iridescent, flowy, and in gold. So I would love a gown that combines elements of both and feels just as magical as they do. I feel like a hidden embroidered pattern with the shapes present on both gowns that are revealed when they catch perfectly with the light would fantastic 😊
My dream outfit is grown up Zelda's dress in Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time. I love the color, fit, and drape of the design and the elegance of her gloves.
Aaaaah so pretty!!!
Picking a dream dress is too hard! But I've always wanted to make Arwen's light blue dress from LOTR, I just love the long flowing sleeves!
For me it would be Belle's dress from the original animated beauty and the beast. I know its been done many times before for theatre and live action film but I don't feel like any have focused on that beautiful shimmery-silky-soft texture that the animated version had 🥰
This dress is gorgeous!
My dream dress would be Elizabeth Swann's red pirate dress from Curse of the Black Pearl. I think it's be fun to have swords or Turner birds embroidered into the skirt panels, tying together her desire to be a pirate and the last name she uses (and eventually acquires). There are several gorgeous dresses from that movie series, but the red one always stood out among the gold ones she wears in Port Royal.
I love that choice. Though her as the Pirate King makes me want to sword some shit.
I'm not well versed in histoical gowns but I am a gamer and Garnet's royal dress from Final Fantasy 9 with its subtle green and gold embroidery has had a chokehold on my brain since I was a child. If I can make and cosplay that dress one day I will feel fulfilled.
Picking just one favorite gown is hard. As far as historical gowns go, I would love a 1780s redingote. They perfectly combine the drama of 18th century gowns with a more tailored menswear look. For fantasy costumes, I love the costumes of from Lord of the Rings (those movies got me into costuming), but if I had to focus on costumes with amazing embroidery, I would have to pick something from Game of Thrones, maybe one of Daenerys's blue outfits from season 3 with all of the dragon scale smocking.
Mine would be the ball outfit from the Slipper and the Rose - I adore all of the costumes in that movie! It has such a special place in my heart.
The dress that has has a chokehold on me is Christine Daae’s white “Think of Me” dress 🙌🙌 would DIE to have that. Also her pink bustle gown is perfection ✨😭
LOVE this dress!! If I were to make my own dress from any movie or show it would 100% be Claire’s wedding dress from Outlander. The corset, the beading, the skirt, everything is perfect.
OMG! That is a gorgeous gown! I love the stars and clouds, but the bees and clouds is exciting, I love bees, and that will be amazing. My favorite is the 1888 Russian court dress with all the embroidery on green velvet. I need pink with it, but oh it's gorgeous!
My dream dress would be Rosie’s dress at the end of LOTR. I am a major hobbit stan lol the green color is lovely, the puffy sleeved blouse is so cute, and the embroidered panel is gorgeous. Hobbit fashion is very unappreciated.
Ah, the joy of making clothing for family and friends that actually fits them and they look good in. As for me, I have the build of Queen Victoria in her later years. So my dress would be cut very simply in a blood red velvet with maybe a simple lace neck trim and lace trim around the cuffs of the sleeves. The hem would either be floor-length or right below the knees.
My dream dress would honestly be any of Edith's from Crimson Peak, but specifically her yellow skirt/velvet green bodice combo! The adorable yellow pompoms around the collar!! Ugh I swoon every time
my dream dress would be anna from frozen’s spring dress with sunflowers, I just love the sillouette and the embroidered details on all her dresses really, but the sunflowers on her spring dress really just make me happy :)
As a child (and still) I have always admired the gowns in the book "the twelve dancing princesses" retold and illustrated by Ruth sanderson.
For me I think it's the "breathe" dress from Ever After. I fell in love with it the second I saw it and never fell out of love.
There are many ways and things to appreciate in this video. One hope I have is that everyone will see all the work, hours, and processes, and realize that any cheap and/or fast fashion dress you see on offer is:
A) not going to look at all like the picture or anything high quality,
B) made with exploitively cheap labor,
Or
C) both A and B
I think my dream gown would have the silhouette of the ballgown from The King and I but a little lighter feeling, wuth ladybugs embroidered flying up from the hem! 🥰🐞😍
So many dream outfits! But my first right now is honestly ANYTHING Aaliyah wears as Akasha in Queen of the Damned. I guess there’s not a lot of(or any) embroidery on what she wears, but that’s it.
I was captivated from the fist moment. =) Also, my husband and I could not stop laughing at your salt. We had to go back and play section over a few times because we didn't catch everything. Tears. There were tears.
Ok, hear me out on this one...dresses from Game of Thrones. I tried to watch it (barely made it through season one and two episodes of season two) but could not get passed the extreme gratuitous violence against women. One thing I DID enjoy from the show were the amazing outfits. The embroidery on some of them is next level. The artist, Michele Carragher, made each one a work of art that tied to the character. There is no way for me to choose just one.
The reason I enjoy the dresses, outside of their aesthetic beauty, is that needlework is something I have loved for almost my whole life. My mother began teaching me embroidery when I was 5 (I still have the first piece I ever made!) and she continued teaching me into my early teens when I was able to really do pieces on my own. While I eventually migrated to counted cross stitch as my main, I have never moved away from needlework in many forms as a hobby (they're alts, if you will). I am fortunate that my mother is still with us (I'm 54) and when we get together with my sister, the three of us work on things while we yap; I cross stitch, my sister crochets, and my mom knits when her hands allow and quilts when they don't. The bonds that needlework helped build between the three of us are priceless.
My dream dress? Rosa Genoni’s The Spring. The shape, the embroidery, the beading absolutely gobsmacking beautiful
The purple dress with lightning bolts embroidered in straw is another embroidered dress favorite
I have two in mind, one of which that I always wanted to make, but I think if Marie Antoinette could have subtle embroidery on her Chemise A La Reine around the collar, cuffs and hem, she'd love it. The second is the black and white Art Nouveau evening dress by Worth, because I love the contrast of the dress which at a distance is stunning!
I would LOVE a jacket much like the fantasy ones in Shadow and Bone. I think these coats were absolutely gorgeous and essentially unisex in design, an element that I prefer. Also, while I LOVE watching sewing videos, and I am teaching myself to sew, I am more the jeans and t-tshirts type gal. This type of garment would fit right in with my tomboy style. I should learn how to tailor!
I love all the gowns from The Lord of the Rings. I think the one I would love most to wear would be Arwen's deep blue velvet with the sheer sleeves.
My dream gown would be Belle's from Walt Disney World's Beauty and the Beast. I love yellow and roses and all 💐 for both Spring and Summer. I also love butterflies and Boho gowns.
When i was young, I DEVOURED the works of Tamora Pierce, and ever since, I've been trying to figure out what clothing from Tortall looks like. To this day, I haven't been able to design anything that looks quite like what my childhood self imagined, nor have I seen any fan art or cosplay that hits quite right. I think my dream dress would be one of the ones Daine wore to visit the imperial court in Emporer Mage. She doesn't describe them in detail- one is a lilac with an embroidered and beaded gold silk overlay "frail as a butterfly's wing", the other is described as "a twilight-blue silk gown that whispered as she moved and winked with silver embroidery". I think if i could will my dream gown into existence it would be one of those two, just to see what they actually look like!
I think my dream dress would be a modern take on a historical gown, like a chemise a la reign, or Edwardian lingerie gown but with embroidery (either fae, celestial or cottagecore themed)
Like how cute would a tea length chemise look with little mushrooms or strawberries embroidered on it!
For me it would be the purple floor length gown worn by Princess Catania in Barbie Marioposa and the fairy princess, I love it and its so pretty!
My dream outfit would be an 1890s creation with stars, constellations, moon phases with a fuller than normal skirt for the decade. I see the moon phases either going down the center back seam or around the hem of the dress. The color would ideally be a deep blue and the embroidery in various silver, white and sneaking in some glow in the dark to illuminate the constellations.
I loved almost all the dresses worn by Maria in Secret of Moonacre (2008) so it's hard for me to choose a favorite. I think this was the movie that made me drawn to and appreciate historical dresses. I love the floral embroidery on the bodice of the blue dress, especially on the collar (and on her pink gown which is very similar). Also, I thought the accordion-like bustle in back was a bit strange but the shape it gave was very interesting to me. The movie leaned into a fairytale aesthetic that I love and you can tell there was some historical inspiration in the dresses
This skirt is SO beautiful and I am excited to see the dress finished! I think my dream dress would be Italian renaissance (heavy dash of fantasy) that is secret garden inspired. Lots of lush vines and wild leaves and trim, with ribbon flowers and a hidden embroidered gold key - to get inside the garden of course! I know it would make more sense for a later period gown but I love renaissance dresses so much so 😂
Seeing your scissors just glide along like swans on a lake is soooooooooo satisfying!!
Such detailed work! 😮 If I could have a custom piece made, I’d probably choose an early 1900s tea gown with embroidery of whales and kelp.
Sincerely appreciate you sharing your talents and creations on your channel. This piece, along with all of your others, is simply gorgeous! Cannot say how much of an inspiration you are. You are incredible!!
My truest dream dress would be Claire Fraser's dress in Outlander that is reminiscent of Dior's "Bar"/Zemire ensemble except made out of linen and add forest green art nouveau floral embroidery going along the opening and bottom edges of the top bodice/jacket.
Satin and silk are gorgeous, but it would be amazing to be able to wear pieces more often that fit in with more modern-ish/history bounding everyday wear instead of a costume only brought out on rare occasions.
Love ALL the beautiful dresses from kirtles, robe a l'englaise, victorian riding habits, and beyond, but feel that pieces that bring the most joy are ones that can be worn often. Like your favorite cozy coffee mug(s) you reach for daily/weekly instead of the beautiful delicate teacup you're afraid to break.
Thank you!! ❤
I would kill for Buttercup's blue wedding dress at the end of the Princess Bride! It's such a great climax with all the epic showdowns btw Westley/Prince Humperdinck and Inigo/Count Rugen. And add some hidden embroidery like a mask, a sword, and other icons to rep f/each main characters!
If I could have any outfit with any embroidery from history I think it would be a copy of Queen Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp’s 1774 wedding gown. I believe it to be the most beautiful example of the Robe de Cour, or “Grand Habit” ever made. It has the most divine silver embroidery and lace as well as a massive pannier and ofcourse a huge delicious train. If only I had the 17 inch waist to go along with it. 😂
Wow! That skirt is so GAW-JESS! Can't wait to see the completed bodice and your coordinating sister giwn. My dream outfit would be one of the fops from the 1960s movie The Fearless Vampire Killers (late 18th-century). ❤ that time period.
I would love a Tudor gown I’ve been obsessed with Anne Boleyn since I was seven years old, I’m now 59 and the first time I went to the Tower of London and stood were Anne was beheaded I cried, I was 47 at the time. I’ve also been to Hever her childhood home which was such an amazing experience, I never thought I would ever get to do this .
I think my dream dress would be whatever the finished strawberry 'waistcoat part' looks like from the V&A's collection. It's this really pretty strawberry pattern made out of metallic thread (I think) and I'd love to see not only what it looked like completed but what the rest of the dress would look like! I tried recreating it once on the front of a pocket piece and I just think the pattern is incredibly cute!
That fabric is gorgeous. I love the way it moves. hmmm a dream outfit. I have to say the Georgian mens coats with all the embroidery have always been a dream project of mine. in my mind I see iris and peonies with butterflies. will I ever take the time to hand embroider all that? nope. just not going to happen. but your question didmake me think of it again. I always imagine "the Suit - 1780, British - The Metropolitan Museum of Art 17th Century, Silk Clothes" for the cut in a deep blue with the embroidery a bit wider, because if it's worth doing it's so worth over doing. maybe I'll think about a embroidery machine. I am curious as to what everyone elses dream design would be.
My dream dress would be Cinderella's Ballgown (2015 live edition) but in various shades of chocolate fabrics (warm, autumnal, rich browns). I love brown dresses and I feel like they're such a highly-underrated dress color choice!