My costumes

Pelisse

Posted Mar 2, 2012 at 12:38 CET in Drawings and prints, Fashion, Fashion plates, My costumes, and Photos.

I started making this pelisse last winter for the 12th night ball. I raced to get it finished and didn’t quite make it, but it was still wearable enough for the ball.

After the ball I wasn’t as motivated to finish it so it’s been in the same state ever since, but now I have finally done the final trimming and the arm holes.

I used the instructions at Marquise but made it a bit shorter and less wide. The pattern is from the 1760s but it’s a very basic shape that stayed very similar for several decades.

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Twelfth night ball

Posted Jan 6, 2011 at 20:08 CET in Costuming, Events, Fashion, Flickr, My costumes, Photos, and Swedish events.

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Yesterday I went to Gustafs skål’s Twelfth night ball, and I had a wonderful time! I also met Isis, who had a fantastic foresty costume, and Madame Berg, who looked amazing, for the first time. I forgot to take any photos but my boyfriend took a few of my costume when I got back home. I wore the polonaise with a new but unfinished pelisse (the hood trim and armholes are missing). I was planning to make a matching muff as well but didn’t have time.

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A visit at Kina slott

Posted Aug 16, 2010 at 14:06 CEST in Buildings and interiors, Costuming, Fashion, Flickr, My costumes, and Photos.

A couple of days ago I went to Kina slott (the Chinese pavilion at Drottningholm) to take some photos of my robe à la polonaise since I realised it unintentionally matches the colours of the palace exterior. My boyfriend Henrik was the photographer.

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1770s robe à la polonaise

Posted Jun 24, 2010 at 21:56 CEST in Costuming, Fashion, My costumes, and Photos.

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I just finished this polonaise and I’m so happy with it! I have to do one small alteration to improve the fit of the “bodice” but otherwise it’s done.

Edit: The photos are taken in my bedroom.

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Photos from “Lyss till 1700-talet”

Posted Aug 4, 2009 at 17:13 CEST in Costuming, Events, Fashion, Flickr, My costumes, Photos, and Swedish events.

Photos from the day I visited the Lyss till 1700-talet event at Skansen a couple of weeks ago. I wore my new outfit.

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New 18th century clothes

Posted Jul 13, 2009 at 15:20 CEST in Costuming, Fashion, My costumes, and Photos.

I’ve been working on this outfit for a couple of weeks and now it’s finally finished enough to use. I still have to line the jacket and add more gold fringe around the “skirt” part of the jacket (peplum?), but otherwise it’s all done. It’s a late 1780s pierrot jacket from The Cut of Women’s Clothes: 1600-1930 by Norah Waugh and a simple sheer jupe made from no pattern at all. I’ll hopefully be wearing this to Skansen next weekend.

Does anyone have any tips on where to find really sheer fabric to use for a fichu, or know what type of fabric to look for? All the really sheer fabrics I find tend to look very obviously synthetic. I don’t mind if it’s a not a period correct fabric as long as it looks like one.

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