When looking at the pictures for my boyfriends exhibition I emedetly fell in love with the photo of the 4 women and the little girl.
3 generation of women who, probably dresses in their finery for the photograph, all look so severe and sad. It makes me wonder who they where and what there lives was like.
I decided to make one of their garnments, and really wanted to make the little girls jacket. But since the time was limited, I only had two late nights to do it, I decided to make the teenage girls dress instead.
After studying the picture, I drafted a pattern for a straight skirt, a straight bodice with button clouser and a sleeve with a long slim cuff.
And a big white collar…
Those of you who know some of my previous work will recognize the collar.
It is almost the exact same collar as in The 30s sailor dress and in the 1913 to late for Titanic dress!
Buggers.
And yet, I do have historical evidence for all of these dresses (well, I do if you count fashion plates).
I have no idea why, but apperently I’m drawn to dresses with big white collars…
Well, back to the construction. The fabric is a cheap brown cotton and the collar is the exact same fabric, just a lighter shade of colour. The buttons is cheep brown wooden buttos which works verry well with the brown of the fabric.
The whole dress took about 6 hours to make, and I manadged to have it ready and hung 10 minutes before the opening of the exhibition.
The original…
And the copy.
Hm, maybe not that good…
It was really hard to try to mimic the stiff, severe look of the girl in the photo. But I did my best.
Fashion Through Herstory 