🍒Welcoming a new princess dress to my arsenal today! My linen gauze dress is finally done and ready to wear :")
🍒 handmade in black cherry linen gauze with black cotton lining, machine embroidered, from self draft bodice and skirt pattern, styled with thrifted items.
I recently bought a pair of bloomer shorts to wear under dresses of mine. I saw French Meadows on Instagram had some cute ones!! I do have patterns to make them myself but, the time, I just don’t have to do them really.
So I purchased them, and I love them! I also bought a dress. I love both pieces! It definitely inspired me to make a pair for myself in the future!
Dress is from French Meadows…
I made a cape! If you’d like to see the process from flip to finish, please watch! I hope this inspires someone out there, to make their own, or recycle a few old garments...maybe a pair of pants or two, into a cape of their own!
Last weekend, @apple-salad invited me to her amazing Rococo Bouquet afternoon tea. Victorian Maiden released many versions and cuts of their Rococo Bouquet series over the years, and I own the Bustle Long Skirt (2011 edition) and the Mermaid skirt (2007 edition), both in blue flowers.
Pictures of the afternoon tea and Rococo Bouquet group HERE
Outfit rundown
Skirt: second-hand Victorian Maiden
Bolero: second-hand Mary Magdalene
Blouse: The Floral Notebook
Shoes: second-hand Innocent World (they died completely after those pictures)
Bag: second-hand Mary Magdalene
Hat: Anonhat
Cameo: vintage Wedgwood
Brooch: Axes Femme
Earrings: vintage
Gloves: vintage
[Hanfu · 漢服]Chinese Warring States period(475–221 BC) Chu (state) Hanfu Based On Chu (state) lacquer figure
【Historical Artifact Reference】:
Lacquered wood figurines unearthed from Chu State Tomb in Shayang Tumbun Chu Tombs/沙洋塌冢楚墓出土漆俑
Collar cloth and robe unearthed from china Mashan Chu Tomb N19
【Histoty Note】Warring States Period·Chu (state) Noble Women Fashion
Many people may wonder why this set of clothing and hairstyles are so similar to Japan, but the fact is this kind of clothing and hairstyle existed in China at least 1,000 years earlier than Japan.
During the China Warring States Period, it was popular for aristocratic men and women to wear robes.
Lacquered wood figurines and robe with similar images have been unearthed from the Shayang Tumbun Chu Tombs and the Chu Tombs at Mashan, many of which adopted the "three-dimensional structure" technique.
For example, a roughly rectangular piece is caulked at the intersection of the robe's sides, skirt sides and sleeve armpits. At the same time, the lower edge line of the top and the upper edge line of the lower skirt are incrementally extended, and then sewn into one body. It is called "Ming three-dimensional structure".
Its ingenuity is that while the outer contour of the garment remains unchanged, it effectively expands the inner space of the garment body, making it convenient for people to wrap the garment from the front to the back when wearing it, without damaging the original collar and garment forms.
The attire of aristocratic women from the Chu state in this set was restored based on the lacquered wooden figurines of the Chu tomb in Shayang. Their foreheads and temples hair are fluffy, and they have a hanging bun at the back of their heads. They wear robes that are connected up and down, and are decorated with brocade inlays at the seams.
The wearing method is the "layering method", two robes are stacked together in advance and then worn as a whole. This allows the collar edge of the lining to be show parallel to the collar edge of the outer garment, and a section of the lining to be show behind the lapel.The brocade edge is decorated with a wide belt and fixed with double belt hooks.
This "layered" wearing method shows the layers and details of Chu people's clothing, and can also show the graceful beauty of the body.
In addition, many creative clothing styles and fabric patterns emerged during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, bringing with them the unique atmosphere, mysterious imagination and ultimate romance of that era, becoming our inexhaustible source of art.
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If I'd seen this gown as a kid, I would have danced up and down with excitement. Okay, that's a lie: I'd probably do the same if I saw it right now.
Petal pink. Moiré taffeta. A sculpted bodice. Gorgeous plunging neckline. Whew. Usually 1860s gowns go a little too hard for me, but this is just perfection. Though it's 1863, you could certainly see it in the 20th century with no problem.
We're solidly in the crinoline ages, but I think the trim work certainly foreshadows the later shape of the bustle.
Alas, though the gown is from the Museum of Vancouver, I have no further details. Either way, it is an absolute gorgeous work of art.