• Tea Gown.
Place of origin: England
Date: 1895-1900
Medium: Silk velvet, embroidered with coloured silks
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Evening dress
c. 1890
by American designer Herbert Huey (1860-1916)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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They had a drawing at last night's ball and I won this gloriously beautiful bonnet! Which is exactly the kick in the butt I need to expand my daytime/outdoor Regency wardrobe with a spencer and some chemisettes.
LOOK HOW PRETTY IT IS
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Here are some (not very good) photos of me wearing it! I'll have to get some better ones at my parents house later, because there is absolutely no good space to take photos in my apartment.
I don't have any other 1830's things to go with it, and don't currently have plans to make any. I just wanted this dressing gown specifically.
Anyways! There are 6,957 triangles, all sewn together by machine, but most of the actual garment construction is by hand. The unevenness from all the patchwork seam allowances made it very fussy, and the tailoring took at least twice as long as it would have in a normal fabric. The velvet was also a challenge, being the soft drapey wobbly kind, but I managed.
I accidentally made my triangles a bit smaller than the ones on the original (C. 1835, Powerhouse Museum collection.) which means there are more triangles than there had to be, but that's ok. I really enjoyed doing the patchwork, it's the most wonderfully soothing brainless task ever and I will definitely make more patchwork things.
I'm very happy with how it turned out! It's comfortable and fits pretty well, and is warm but not excessively so.
I kept timesheets for everything, and I haven't added them up yet, but once I do I'll know exactly how long all of this took.
I also filmed it, but the youtube video won't be out for quite a while, because I still have to write and record some more stuff and then edit a very very very very large amount of clips.
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