Somnia Romantica

Historically inspired romantic fashion by Marjolein Turin

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Caw, caw! This lace dress is yet again inspired by crows ^-^ The flowy, winglike arms are attached all to the side of the gown. The bodice and upperskirt are fitted and flare out again from the knee down. The piece is decorated with lots of broad pleated lace and small lace trim (a trim which I found also very fitting for this birdie inspiration). The upper layer is soft polyamid elastan lace. It is lined with a high quality polyamid elastan, for a sturdy, yet supple fit. The front has a vintage sterling silver brooch and the piece closes at the back and front around the neckline with vintage style silver tone metal clasps ^-^

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Cape like winged shrugs made of just a lots of lace with pleated vintage lace ^^ To either roam, wander, flutter or all three of them ^^

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Happy new waistcoat in faux leather, with pleated front panel and poofy puff sleeves. It is decorated with lots of venice lace and vintage lace trims. Also some happy clasps for the fastening. Oh and the longest skirt and sleeve ends are a supple crevisco (viscose elastan blend) fabric.

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New shrug with hugantilous sleeves. Yes I am pitching that term. I have had this cute chiffon with textured dots for some time, I bought it online thinking it was a plain fabric. As I never use dots in my designs, I thought for a while whether I would use it. But I decided they are actually pretty cute and classy, so there you go, merry dots on meganormous romantic sleeves ^^ Combined with a cuddly knitted base fabric and lots of happy floral vintage lace ^^

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Oh hi, I am a happy black waistcoat aka overdress with a happy all lace front, textured lycra, chiffon and a bunch of vintage laces ^-^ For all about my designs, see www.somniaromantica.com ^-^

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New gown in rusty orange and black ^^ It looks like a two piece, but is attached at the back. the broad black scalloped lace and the broad lace on the bodice is vintage ^^ It closes at the front with silver tone metal clips and clasps. I will later post a pic of the back, when photographing I saw the fit on the back needed improvement, so it's under my machine again, but I still wanted to post these pics today ^^

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Happy world goth day! I thought it would be fitting to post a photo for each year of me batting around ^^ Aka, it turned out to be definitely not a phase. About all outfits are of own design, except for... 2010, 2020 and 2023 I think ^^ in two weeks my love and I will be to Wave Gotik Treffen Leipzig ^^

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This shrug is made of a ribbed sturdy bodice in white, combined with dramatic long silver grey (with a mini hint of sage) chiffon winglike sleeves. The sleeves are hemmed with bright white scalloped lace and soft, broad white lace with subtle silver thread (see close-up). The bodice is decorated with the same scalloped lace and with vintage lace trims in white and silvergrey (with that tiny drop of sage ^^). The front closes with silver tone metal clips and clasps.

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This robe is made of sturdy black jacquard, combined with broad vintage lace at the sleeve ends and skirt. It is decorated with lots of lace and lace trim. It has puff sleeves. The front is open and closes in the neck and waist with silver tone metal clasps ^-^

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This gown is made of black jacquard, combined with huge wing like chiffon sleeves. The lower part of the skirt and the sleeve hems are decorated with lots of pleated vintage lace. It has dramatic standing puff sleeves at the shoulder. It has a neckline at the front and back of mirrored Venice lace. The back closes with silver tone metal clips and clasps ^^

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Crow dress in a sleek silhouet, with the addition of frilly lace details to imply little feathers. Which made the dress as a whole more princessy ^^ belt and other shape defining lines made with decorative elastic band and silver tone metal clasps. Also some added appliquee and a filigree metal button. I hemmed it with lots of vintage scalloped lace ^^

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This shrug I made a base of embroidered lycra, combined with very wide winglike sleeves made of fine mesh. It is hemmed with lots of vintage 2 different types of vintage lace. It has a soft lace detailing around the shoulders. It is part of my Crows and Swans collection (guess for which part :p )

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Let's summarize the making of this gown as pleating a gazillion pleats :D Swan gown in white lace, chiffon and jacquard. It is a gown for the Swans and Crows collection, which I am working on this winter and early spring. I like to bring wing and feather elements into the designs. This one was quite a lot of work and a ton of vintage lace of course ^^

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New piece for my Crows & Swans collection ^^ This all black two piece gown is made of soft stretch corduroy, combined with crevisco fabric (a knitted 92% viscose 8% elastan blend) and detailing in venice lace. It is hemmed with lots of soft small lace and broad & scalloped vintage laces. The front closes with silver tone metal clips and clasps. The skirt has an elastic waistband ^^

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Just finished this piece today :) Plus, I have a new dress form :D (my old one was really done with existing after many years of loyal service) The piece is jacquard with chiffon and lots of vintage lace ^^ For all about my designs (and soon patterns!), see: www.somniaromantica.com ^^

Oh the necklace is by Irene Greek jewellery and the pendant is vintage from Turkiye ^^

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Happy little green top made in green velour with leaf nerves pattern and sleeves made of vintage sage stretcg chiffon ^^ Hemmed with lace and lace trim ^^

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I am like a million years behind on tumblr, but here I am catching up by this purple lace floofliness I recently made ^^ For all about my designs see @somniaromantica ^^