Hello!! Happy Saturday, I hope you are having an amazing day so far.
Following the project, today I will show how I made my Edwardian chemise. But what is a chemise? It is a very light dress that women wore under their clothes, it was made of cotton or linen and protected the outer garments from sweat. People have been wearing the chemise since medieval times.
As time went by, women still wore chemises under the garments with lace, silk, etc. until the 20th century and showing the chemise was once a symbol of hygiene.
In the Edwardian era, a woman could wear a chemise or a combination as you see this:
I made my chemise following the instruction from "Making Edwardian Costumes for Women" by Suzanne Rowland which is a really great book, if you're interesting to learn more about Edwardian garments I highly recommend this book. There's a drawing of how the pattern should be, I took some measurements and deduced how my pattern should be. At first it seemed very small, so I decided increasing the width.
Fabrics: you can use linen, cotton, cambric, it's up to you. I used this cambric, it's really soft and nice to work.
2- Then I pinned ont the shoulders to see if it was okay and it's was big, really big.
3-I gathered the front piece and pinned the sides to cut it, also marked around the arms to cut right.
4- Then I decided to gather the back piece as well.
How can I gather? if you're doing handsewing, do running stiches and push it back.
On sewing machine do the stich in the biggest point and the gather.






MULHERRRR 🗣️🗣️🗣️ tu achou super fácil eu achei super difícil mas ansiosa demais pra ver tudo prontooooo
ReplyDeleteNão é tão difícil, dá pra fazer tranquilo ahaha
DeleteParece muito confortável, adorei!
ReplyDeleteÉ demais mesmo!!!
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