Tudor dress update pictures

[frualeydis]

My tudor dress, based mostly on the Holbein sketch of the More family is almost finished. What remains to do is to re-hem the kirtle that I shortened and make the plastron/stomacher and sew it to one side. I also need to buy some good reproduction brass pins to pin the sleeves with and so. Anyway,here are some preview pictures of the dress without the plastron a.k.a. the pregnant look.



The kirtle is a little big and won't keep my breasts compressed and lifted. For the non-pregnant look I will wear a corset under it so it won't be so noticeable, especially not with the plastron on top of it. But I couldn't wear the corset for the pregnant look. That's why it looks a little wonky on the sitting picture. And I have a pillow under the kirtle.

Comments

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I know - sometimes its way more effort to take something apart than to make something new from scratch!!

Could the velvet pass for stamped velvet?

I'm ordering "REAL" stiff buckram from Whaley's. Ninya has swatches of it at KW open day and I was amazed at how stiff it was. It was like a board! I want to use it for my middle class kirtle and see if I can have a bodice that has minimal steel/rigilene boning in it.

Mine will be side laced as well - I want to be able to get into it easily without having to rely on Edmund to dress me all the time! After all, that what MOST women would have done. Its only the gentry and nobility who would have had huge amounts of help!