I was just emailed pictures from my friend for whose 15 month old grandson I made the Uncle Sam costume ( Re: simple little romper goes awry 6/22). It just makes me chuckle to look at this little guy.....especially since my baby is 6'2". Not easy doing site unseen tailoring for a fella with a 9 1/2" inseam. LOL The pictures are in the SEWING PROJECTS album. Enjoy!
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Oh, and I did make a matching scarf for the dog who was supposed to pull the wagon but his arthritis was acting up so he stayed home with the cats, that's the parents doing the pulling.
That is adorable! The pic of him alone looks like a little doll standing there, how did you get a little boy to stand so still? Really cute and the parents look so proud!
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Thank you and thank you. I loved that pink costume, one of my very favorites. It made this little dump truck driver feel like batting my lashes when I wore it LOL That's a "from skin out" reproduction costume. chemise, bloomers, corset, corset cover, stockings and garters, 4 petticoats and a bustle to start. All fastened with lacing, tapes and hooks and eyes. There is no way a woman can dress herself in one of those get ups! I always had a friend over to help and my son was the world's best corset lacer, muttering things like ,"geeeeeeeese Mom, you gotta be out of your mind." It took about 45 minutes to an hour to dress, and another 30 to get my hair up and the hat on right. I did my hair and hat first though, you have incredibly restricted movement in that clothing. I think the reason men picked up hankies was that there was no way to actually do that yourself. I also couldn't drive a car while wearing it. The jacket, blouse and waist belt are actually all one piece, the most fascinating bit of dressmaker's Rubik's cube you can imagine, and had about 75 hooks and eyes, a proper Victorian lady never showed where her clothes were fastened, it was considered immodest. All the closures are hidden under sleeves, under collars and in seams. The skirt is a 5 gore walking skirt with a "mud binding", heavy cotton duct band that's cut to fit and sewn on the underside of the hem......those clothes were actually seldom washed but the binding was basted on so it could be easily removed and laundered after swishing through whatever happened to be on the streets in 1880. The hat I made out of a bleached straw "boater" and dressed it with hand rolled silk roses, feathers and netting. I was a tour guide for an historical district and made 2 "walking dresses" for myself and also sewed reproduction clothing for museum displays. That was a pink silk moiré I had found years before, bought what was left of a bolt on a close out sale and made the dress about 10 years later........God Bless stashes ;-) I actually had high heeled button up dress shoes and canvas embroidered spats on under that dress, the most uncomfortable part of the costume, and I did 1 1/4 miles tour in those shoes on each tour, made the corset a piece of cake to deal with LOL I took apart a parasol and recovered it with a silk and also made the bag out of same and then embroidered it with silk ribbon roses. I really had fun making those costumes and wearing them. The net gloves were 'modern', I purchased them at K-Mart. I have the pictures of the other costume somewhere and also a dinner gown. I'll have to find them and scan those to put in the album.
I'll also drag out my dressform and put that costume on it, and take some step by step pictures of how it goes on. I think a lot of the people here would like to see the construction. Those clothes are stand alone, they actually dictate your shape, you just happen to be inside. It's really fascinating.
Lil' Mr. is **DARLING**!! He's so cute, he needs pinched. ;) Marvelous job on long distance tailoring. That always makes me really nervous doing something long distance. You did great!
And I love the pink dress. Marvelous. (and wonderful to put your face to your name too!) I would also love to see the step by step on the dress form. I've always been fascinated by the dresses from "way back." We live in an historic area too. (we have one each: Original State Capitol Building; Original Governor's Mansion; Civil War Battle Park. As well as a few other things.) The park rangers that give tours through the mansion and the courthouse don't dress up all the time. But around Christmas they do High Tea at the mansion and dress for that. Also one of the women dresses as Mrs. Claus and reads stories to children in the courthouse foyer. (Santa's house on the square is just outside the courthouse.) They do sort of historically accurate. ;) I've been trying to get them to let me use them as guinea pigs...uh... I mean let me try my hand at historical dress making. lol There are a couple of them that are thinking about it. So I may get to yet. I just think it would be so much fun!!
What pink dress? I can see Uncle Sam, who is very cute, but I can't see a pink dress. Can someone point me? But not Val - because I can't see your posts, Val (my ISP thinks you're a spammer!).
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