Undergarments

Here are a few undergarments I've made for my historic costumes

Laughing Moon Bustles and Hoops pattern:

 

 Truly Victorian #208, plain with ruffles for a petticoat

 

 Laughing Moon Bustles and Hoops pattern:

 

 1830's corded petticoat, no pattern -just help from internet friends

 

Regency bodiced petticoat, altered the Butterick 6630

   

Half stays and chemise from the Simplicity 4052 Regency undergarments pattern:

 

Butterick B4254 This was a first try, so be kind!!  I KNOW it's laced wrong. (Panniers commissioned via Ebay, but it's been so long I forget who made them).

 

Late 18th c. rump pad, Wingeo #216 (worn with 18th. polonaise)

 TV 170, view 1 bustle petticoat  Ugh, what an awful photo.  Sorry!

 

I've also made an early steel bustle with attached petticoat (TV 108) and a late steel bustle with attached petticoat (TV 101), but I don't have photos of them.

You'll also note a sad lack of corsets.  I'm currently taking a pattern drafting class and am making my first corset now.

Bustle coat

My regular winter coat does not fit over my bustle dresses, so I was forced to make one that would.   This was before Truly Victorian came out with her fabulous bustle coat pattern. 

Made of velvet, interlined with cotton quilting, lined with moire bengaline

Here's the inspiration.  It was a free pattern online.  It wasn't to scale and needed major tweaking!

 

Buccaneers dress

This dress has two sources of inspiration: the movie The Buccaneers (set in the 1870s) and a gown painted several times by Tissot in the 1870s.

 

And now here's my humble cotton version complete with hat (hat pattern designed by Lazy K - thank you!)

Trained pinned up:

 

Train down:

Striped silk early bustle dress

This is one of the first bustle dresses I made.  Not much to say.  I made it for a trip to Portland, Oregon and wore it to a tea at a Queen Anne style mansion.

 Here I am with Cat in her stunning Civil War era gown:

Lost Souls dress

This is a dress based on an 1874 Harper's Bazar fashion plate.  The original showed a black dress, and I was in love!

 Photo by Mikelynchphoto.com

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