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Yes! You shall be inundated with pictures from yesterday, where I got dressed up and had ~kellin take pictures of me in my dress, with one of the new hats I've been working on.

Less about the hats at the moment, and some information about the dress...

This dress is a reproduction of an 1880's garment that I had to study and reproduce to a specific sized "actress" (which was myself, for this project - one of the only times we could do that!) during my final draping class a few years back.

This then made a reappearance as my wedding dress from our wedding on Halloween 2008. I knew I wanted something different, and I really loved how the dress fit me, and decided to go with it!

The whole dress is 12 yards of purple shot silk taffeta, flat lined in a brushed cotton. I cut out most of the frills of the original dress - I'm not a ruffle person for things like this, I much prefer a more streamlined simple design, and that's what I went with.

The dress itself was tagged as c.1880, and it is a "natural form" bustle dress, also known as a curiass bustle. It doesn't have the shelf in the back that you think of with bustle, instead, all of the "foof" is lower in the back, while the front is a more trimmed shape (it is fuller on me than most period outfits, though, because I'm significantly more curvy than they were back in the day XP)

Underneath, there is a petticoat, under skirt, and a 1900's corset which gives me a better shape versus period corsets for the dress. That corset is a beast - it takes my 40" waist and brings it down to something like 32" or so easily...

Other than that, I can't think of much else to say, other than a huge Thank you!! to ~kellin for taking such amazing pictures - he's starting to get good at them!

Photography: ~kellin
Model: myself, `taeliac

All garments created by myself~

Description
Yes! You shall be inundated with pictures from yesterday, where I got dressed up and had ~kellin take pictures of me in my dress, with one of the new hats I've been working on.

Less about the hats at the moment, and some information about the dress...

This dress is a reproduction of an 1880's garment that I had to study and reproduce to a specific sized "actress" (which was myself, for this project - one of the only times we could do that!) during my final draping class a few years back.

This then made a reappearance as my wedding dress from our wedding on Halloween 2008. I knew I wanted something different, and I really loved how the dress fit me, and decided to go with it!

The whole dress is 12 yards of purple shot silk taffeta, flat lined in a brushed cotton. I cut out most of the frills of the original dress - I'm not a ruffle person for things like this, I much prefer a more streamlined simple design, and that's what I went with.

The dress itself was tagged as c.1880, and it is a "natural form" bustle dress, also known as a curiass bustle. It doesn't have the shelf in the back that you think of with bustle, instead, all of the "foof" is lower in the back, while the front is a more trimmed shape (it is fuller on me than most period outfits, though, because I'm significantly more curvy than they were back in the day XP)

Underneath, there is a petticoat, under skirt, and a 1900's corset which gives me a better shape versus period corsets for the dress. That corset is a beast - it takes my 40" waist and brings it down to something like 32" or so easily...

Other than that, I can't think of much else to say, other than a huge Thank you!! to ~kellin for taking such amazing pictures - he's starting to get good at them!

Photography: ~kellin
Model: myself, `taeliac

All garments created by myself~