I certainly have a love affair with 18th c. jackets. They're just so darned cute! Now I get to decide, yet again, what kind of jacket to make from 2 yards of lampas brocade I found online, that should be arriving today.
I only have two yards, so it has to be a fairly little jacket. I'm thinking something along the lines of a pierrot or suzanna style - a bodice with a flirty-skirty tail out the back, but then the casaquins and full-skirted jackets are earlier and fit with the "Prelude to Victory" 1780-81 event date better. Hrm.../ponder...
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| Meg Andrews |
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| Augusta Auctions |
Although a casaquin with a short-ish skirt might work too.
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| Galliera musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris |
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| Met |
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| Meg Andrews |
Or maybe a swallow-tailed type of style, over a matching stomacher?
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| Colonial Williamsburg |
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| Duran Textiles |
Decisions, decisions!
I love the bum-poofs on the second two. I mean, when else can you get away with a poofy bum like that?
ReplyDeleteThat's a good point - if ever there is a time for bum poofs...
DeleteI love the Meg Andrews (#6) it would look beautiful in the "Felicite" fabric from your Fabric of Drool.
ReplyDeleteI adoooore that one too, although I might not have enough fabric for it. :-(
DeleteMy favorite is number 3. I really want to make a zone front pierrot but I just haven't had the chance and I'm nervous about adjusting my anglaise pattern to that silhouette.
ReplyDeleteZone fronts intrigue me too - they seem so stylish! I say jump right in and cut things up. Test first, of course :-)
DeleteI LOVE the tail on the first one, but the ruffles on the third are also gorgeous. My advice for helping decide on a design is to make loads of sketches. Sometimes I can trick my brain into thinking it likes one design better than another one by making a crappy sketch of one and a good sketch of the others.
ReplyDeleteThat is good advice - I do this with illustration concepts for clients, haha! Don't tell anyone!!
Delete...you need to install a "Like" button for that one. Priceless!
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