Making A Painted Petticoat (or Two)
As promised, a nice detailed writeup on the construction and design of my painted petticoats! I've named this design the "Anne". Both designs can now be found in my shop: Charlotte and Anne !
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A c1790 jacket and petticoat
Some of you might be familiar with the Francaise Dinner my group of costumer friends has been putting on for the past few years, lately in Alexandria...it was this past weekend, and for various reasons, a few of us in the Philly area weren't able to attend. So I thought it might be nice to have a compensatory event the same weekend, just so we could play 18thc dress-up this weekend too! We ended up having a nice little lunch at City Tavern in Philadelphia yesterday, that I decided to very cleverly decided to call the Loser Anglaise Luncheon. (Because an anglaise luncheon is not as cool as a francaise dinner, you see. Very clever indeed.) The point wasn't to make anything new, but I did anyway - primarily because I wanted to get a nice display of the samples of painted petticoats I've been working on for the past few weeks. (The petticoats will get their own post in the next couple days, fear not.) And I really wanted a jacket to wear with a painted petti rather than a ...