Spring Floral Colonial Gown

My second colonial gown! I can't have enough of these. I don't have the right straw hat for it yet, but the hat I used gets the point across.

My sketches (I'm not much of an artist! One of them I colored in the lines on the computer and it looks much better, but it was a preliminary sketch so it doesn't match the finished dress.)

 The Dress:

Alice Roosevelt Gown

My sister was to participate in her school's "wax museum" (children pick a famous person from American history, research them and pretend to be wax figures of them on display in a museum). My sister decided to be Alice Roosevelt, and for her costume she gave me this picture of A. Roosevelt to copy:

Picture she gave me

My Rendition of it

(I added the tassels for fun)

Colonial Gown

    My dream come true! All my life I wanted an authentic, well-fitted, colonial gown just like in the movies Slipper and the Rose, Pirates of the Caribbean, etc. Now I finally have it!

    When I found these fabrics on sale, my mother and sister insisted on buying it for me so I could make the gown I was envisioning. It took a long time, but my perseverance payed off. It fits me just how I wanted it to, and comes it three parts: the underskirt, the gown, and the pinner cap (which I made long before the dress but made it part of the set now).

What I Changed:
The stomacher (the middle section of the bodice) is decorated by a ribbon/bow tied onto a gift I once received. It matched so well that I had to use it. The pearl buttons I bought to spruce it up a bit. The dress itself I changed by putting all the seams inside the lining rather than sewing all layers together in one seam. It would make more sense if you looked at the pattern instructions. I also used a different method for constructing a waistband for the underskirt.