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Progress of my latest Regency dress. I'm basing it on my c1820 ballgown bodice. I'm documenting everything quite thoroughly, so I've divided the page for ease of loading and browsing. Home please! Regency Dresses and Patterns 2. Left to Right: "Muslin Dress with Tinsel Design. 1798-1810...Silk Dress.
Period George IV. " Clockwise: "Outdoor Silk Jacket. 1795-1808. Embroidered Muslin Bodice. 1816-30. Embroidered Muslin Bodice. 1824-25. Satin and Gauze Bodice. 1820-30. " A Blue and White Regency Ball Gown. An Embroidered Drop-Front Dress. A copy of a dress in the Victoria and Albert Museum.
The dress is made of Swiss muslin from Farmhouse Fabrics. The bodice and sleeves are lined with medium weight linen and the rest of the dress is unlined. The dress is embroidered with a combination of tambour, stem stitches, satin stitches and French knots. I used DMC floche which while it was very good for the regular embroidery, was a little soft for the tambour which made my stitches a little heavier than I'd like them to be. My Drop-Front Regency Dress. The always helpful Koshka helping me iron my nearly completed dress :) I made the drop-front, also known as bib-front or apron-front, dress from Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion 1.
The pattern was surprisingly easy to work with and only needed minor adjustments to fit. I took a lot of pictures while making this dress as it is a truly unusual style! This dress, unlike my other Regency dresses, is possible to put on without any help. The dress is made of an embroidered linen cotton blend. Pictures! Page One, The Dress (with me!) Regency Dress. Me at my friend's Star Wars convention.
I didn't have anything Star Wars to wear (though I later joined the long list of people recreating the picnic dress) so I wore this. It may not be from a galaxy far, far away, but it is from a long time ago! My headdress is my half finished Civil War ball headdress. I need to add ribbon in the back, to cover the floral tape which I doubt is period correct. Even though it is unfinished, it worked fine for my purposes here! (click for a larger image) Cotton Print Regency Dress. Regency Dresses & Patterns. It hasn't always been the case that historic fashion experts have shunned putting authentic garments on live models.
In fact, some of the pioneers in the study of historic dress (including Dr. Cunnington and Doris Langley Moore) published books with models wearing their collections. The 1920 book Dress Design also included a number of photographs of live models wearing authentic period fashions. I've culled together the Regency era dresses (loosely defined by the book), along with some of the patterns included for early 19th century design. I have made no attempt to narrow down dating; what you see here is what the original 1920s reader also saw.
"A Long-trained Muslin Dress. Above: "Linen Dress. 1795-1808. " (c) Copyright 2005. How to Make Loops in Soutache Braid. A Turn of the 19th Century Riding Habit. Teal Regency Gown - Historic Fashions. An Embroidered Regency Dress with a Pink Silk Spencer. An embroidered Regency dress with a pink silk spencer, worn in the historic masquerade at Costume Con 23 in Ogden, Utah, and on Friday at Costume College 2005.
The dress is embroidered by hand using tambour embroidery, French knots and satin stitches. The dress and everything worn with it is sewn by hand. I'm wearing it over the Mantua Maker pantalettes, Kannik's Korner shift, corded Regency corset based on my 1820-1840 corset, and a bodiced petticoat with a corded hem. The dress is made of Swiss muslin from Farmhouse Fabrics. The spencer is of pink silk taffeta from the Fabrics.net outlet. The pattern for the dress is a shortened version of the 1820s ballgown bodice in The Cut of Women's Clothes.