1920's Navy Voile Dress

[atherleisure]

I did finish the waistband on the 1920's dress I was embroidering last spring shortly after I wore it in San Jose in April. I never posted pictures of the finished project and found after I wore it at Costume College that I didn't get any good pictures of it either. There are a couple of pictures floating around out there, but they're general crowd shots, which aren't generally too good as costume documentation. I took a couple of pictures on the dummy the other day, and that's as good as it's going to get for now.







I am happy with the embroidery but don't love the dress. I never expected to love the dress because there's really nothing I love about the 1920's. There are some things that are better than others, and this is okay. The unexpected thing with this was that to have the blousing at the waist behave itself I had to put a couple of pins in the waistband and pin it to my slip. If I didn't, it wanted to sag at the center front since the sides were kind of sitting on my hips. Not a big deal.

At least now I have a 1920's dress so I'm ready for any summery outing that calls for that period.

Comments

[koshka_the_cat]

The embroidery is fantastic! As is the dress, but I love the 20s...

[atherleisure]

Thank you. I’m glad someone who likes the 20’s likes it. It makes me feel I did well with it.

[danabren]

I don't remember that interesting neck/sleeve construction from the original posts, although it's quite clever.

[atherleisure]

It’s a really unusually shaped sleeve piece that has the shoulder cut in one with it.

[hharris]

It's another fantastic piece! Love the design - where did you get the original 20s embroidery pattern?

[atherleisure]

Thank you. Both the neck and waist patterns came out of a book called Broderie pour Robes on the Antique Pattern Library - https://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/pub/PDF/B-YS043BroderiesPourRobes.pdf. The originals had parts filled, but I lightened up the embroidery a bit because I was working on voile.

[marianme]

Was fun seeing this dress multiple times and the embroidery is the best part.

[atherleisure]

I had a lot of fun with the embroidery, even as I madly tried to finish in San José. It was fun to get to wear it a few times.