#historybounding

[elfgirlcraftworks]

Finally had time to film a GRWM in the "A Ball With The Fae" ensemble from the Balticon Masquerade. All pieces made by me including crown and earrings.

I ended up winning Best in Class for Workmanship and second for Presentation

[iridessence]

highly recommend wearing your Edwardian underthings to the beach to feel like a seaside muse at the turn of the century

[saccharine-dreamer]

Salon 1884 Spring-Summer 2025

[marzipanandminutiae]

Area woman made winter hood

Area woman not sure about the silhouette or lack there of, but her ears are extremely cozy and she is rather proud of the soutache

[leo-fie]

The Admech Mantua is finished.

I worked almost exactly a year on this costume, on and off. The idea was this specific type of draped gown from the early 1700s, the mantua, but make it admech. I say I succeeded in that.

Hope you like it. See you in Lucca.

Photography by Jörg Bächle (thanks a lot!!)

[badassindistress]

My kirtle is finished!

For a fully handsewn dress, that went faster than I expected. I started stitching three weeks ago!

It's very comfortable and warm and makes me feel like woodland animals are about to do my chores

Now I just have to make some pockets out of the scraps and we're all set for some adventures!

[fannyrosie]

Outfit for houjicha (and matcha) fondue at @charyu_tguru with @vkeiprincesse

Dress: Blauer Vogel (Japanese indie brand); Blouse: second-hand Mary Magdalene; Hat: second-hand Fint (with added flowers); Shoes: old Queen Bee; Bag: offbrand from some shop in Harajuku in 2011; Book brooch: Design Festa (forgot the artist); Other brooches, earrings and ring: vintage

[trishmishtree]

First sewing project of 2025 completed!

It's a Vicwardian shirtdress that kind of straddles the lines between historybounding and historical costuming and cosplay.

See, I have made 3-4 blouses/shirtwaists in this style now, and the most irritating thing about them is that they gradually get more and more untucked throughout the day until I'm left with a muffin top spilling over my skirts. So I figured, why not make one that's the bodice of a dress? That way, I can anchor the blouse part down to the waistband so it can't ride up and come untucked, and I can control how much it's allowed to blouse and keep it that way 24/7 since it's stitched down.

^See? Now I won't have to constantly adjust and re-adjust the gathering and pleating into the waistband or tug my shirttails down because I can feel the back of the blouse ballooning out again.

(Almost forgot to mention: yes, the skirt has giant Victorian-style pockets in the side seams. The dress was 99% hand sewn, mostly because I was working on it while out of town without access to my machine, but also because when I got home and tried to attach a facing to the pockets, my machine decided 3 layers of this shirting-weight cotton twill fabric was too much to handle and broke down. So thanks for that, pockets. Now I have to find a repair shop or replacement machine.)

And bonus: the skirt can be worn as is, or it can function as a petticoat under a separate skirt I can wear over the dress. If I make a floor-length walking skirt to wear over this shirtdress, and maybe a waistcoat and/or an Eton jacket, then I'll have a convincing enough 1890s-1900s ensemble for historical costuming purposes.

Oh, and in case you can't tell, the bodice design with the diagonal pintucks in the yoke is inspired by the outfit that Elphaba wears in her "The Wizard and I" sequence from the new movie. She wears this gauzy, crinkle chiffon-looking blouse under a black jumper dress, and the visible parts of the blouse look like they're bias cut, with some kind of pintucked or micro-pleated texture.

I basically spent the last month and change drooling over the costuming and wanting Elphaba's entire wardrobe. I don't think I'll be accurately recreating any of her actual costumes, but I like to think that my new shirtdress *could* potentially be something she'd wear.

Oh, and here's a detail of the lower sleeves on my dress. Elphaba's usually wearing all black, so the movie costumers played a lot with the texture of the fabrics on her clothing. They were inspired by mushrooms and other earthy textures, so her dresses have a more organic look than what I have going on here. I didn't have enough fabric to play around with, so I figured I'd just give honeycomb smocking a try, and I'm shocked at how well these sleeves preserve body heat in the winter.

Now all I need to do is make her hat and maybe sew a cloth facemask from green fabric and my 2025 office-appropriate Halloween costume will be good to go.

EDIT: link to the pattern I made for this dress here

And here's the dress worn under the corresponding skirt and waistcoat, and Eton jacket.