Many people have suggested I start a gallery of costumes people have made using my patterns. This is a terrific idea!
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SO, today I will share with you two costumes I've made for myself that became Simplicity patterns.
For a number of years I performed with my local Gilbert and Sullivan society. And I almost always made my costume. The one above I made for an interesting production. Not one of G & S's operettas, but an evening of music from all the operettas that also told the story of their lives and how they worked together. We decided every woman would wear a dress from a different time in the Victorian era, which is when they wrote all their pieces.
I wore the very pronounced 1880's bustle, which I had always wanted to try making.
Please send images with pattern used and any other information to
[email protected]
SO, today I will share with you two costumes I've made for myself that became Simplicity patterns.
For a number of years I performed with my local Gilbert and Sullivan society. And I almost always made my costume. The one above I made for an interesting production. Not one of G & S's operettas, but an evening of music from all the operettas that also told the story of their lives and how they worked together. We decided every woman would wear a dress from a different time in the Victorian era, which is when they wrote all their pieces.
I wore the very pronounced 1880's bustle, which I had always wanted to try making.
AND ... it became this pattern!
In a production of The Sorcerer, I played Lady Sangazure (a VERY aristocratic older woman) and made this dress, which became ...
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