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Medieval Dress Designs
As Halloween draws nigh, our thoughts turn to costumes.
Not those rubbery, poorly constructed, sexy and/or gory off-the-rack readymades, but the sort of lavish, historically accurate, home-sewn affairs that would have earned praise and extra candy, if only our mother had been inclined to spend the bulk of October chained to a sewing machine.
Not that one needs the excuse of a holiday to suit up in a fluffy 50’s crinoline, a Tudor-style kirtle gown, or a 16th-century Flemish outfit with all the trimmings....
Accountant Artemisia Moltabocca, creator of the historical and cosplay costuming blog Costuming Diary, has primed our pump with a list of free historical medieval, Elizabethan and Victorian patterns, including ones for the garments mentioned above.
Click through the many links on her site and you may find yourself tumbling down a rabbit hole of some other cos-player's generosity.
That link to the custom corset pattern generator may set you on the road to creating a perfectly fitted Viking apron or a good-for-beginners tunic. (“Bring out yer dead!”)
Fancy even more choices? Moltabocca’s Free Historical Costume Patterns Pinterest board is a veritable trove of dress-up fun.
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Costume and Textiles Project has detailed downloadable PDFs to walk you through construction of such anachronistic finery as a 1940’s Zoot Suit, a 19th-century boy’s frock (above), and a man’s vest with removable chest pads (hubba hubba).
An 1812 Ohio Militia Officer’s Coat from the Ohio Historical Society.
A pair of Nankeen Trousers courtesy of the Royal Ontario Museum.
A bullet bra (hubba bubba redux!)—pair it with a 1940s Vogue hat and handbag and you’re ready to go!
A Regency Drawn Bonnet and an Improved Seamless Whalebone Underskirt from E. & J. Holmes & Co, Boston, 1857.
If you’re feeling less than confident about your sewing abilities, you might make like an upper-class Roman in an Ionian chiton.
Or just curl a synthetic wig!
Press someone else’s seams with a straightening iron (above), then kick back and enjoy the vintage ads, photos of antique garments, and the period information that often accompanies these how-tos. And check out the 1913 patent application for Marie Perillat’s Bust Reducer, a miracle invention designed to “prevent flesh bulging while providing self adjustable, comfortable, hygienic support.”
Begin with some of Costuming Diary’s historical sewing patterns before delving into its massive pattern collection board on Pinterest.
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Ayun Halliday is an author, illustrator, theater maker and Chief Primatologist of the East Village Inky zine. Her current sewing project is 19 headpieces for Theater of the Apes Sub-Adult Division’s upcoming production of Animal Farm at the Tank in New York City. Follow her @AyunHalliday.
It looks very easy to make, even for beginners, so I am confident
Thank you so much for the pattern!!
If you happen to have a chance, share with me a picture of your finished dress!
I am so happy to say: I made it - and it is great!
I had my difficulties, because I have never sewn anything big before, and several times I was at the point of giving up. Also, I had very short time in the end and that stressed me out (homemade problem haha). It took me several days to make the dress (even though I borrowed a sewing machine eventually)
Nevertheless, I am so glad about this dress and despite all the mistakes I made, I love it! I used linen fabric and it wears very well.
And of course, I want to show you the result: sta.sh/01f42jd2kf5u and sta.sh/02gekqs0keqo
Thanks again for the pattern!
it helped me a lot!! XD
Did you put a petticoat in the first picture?
...What are YOUR measurements???
I need to know for comparison's sake!!!
Thanks!
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This is brilliant and I want to try it so badly. Thank you so much for sharing!
You are more than welcome, it is really simple just start doing it and you will see!
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The best way to learn to sew is just start doing it! You dont need much special, although a sewing machine (a cheap used one) helps a lot. You can use satin of course! Firstly, form the face opening. Measure half that circumference down from the fold on the left, and add a seam allowance (depending if you're sewing it with mediaeval hems or machined, this will differ). Mark across. Measure along this a comfortable rolled edge (for the edge of the face-hole of the hood itself), including hem, add at least 5cm for the flat under the chin (more if you want the hood to stand out from the head), and then draw a right-angle down to the selvedge. Pin the line of the seam. First, sew the rolled edge, then tack the curve of the front of the throat (you may want that hem wider if you're adding buttons). Don't cut and hem yet. Check on the wearer, and fit the back of the capelet and hood with pins, loosely, from the selvedges in the small of the back to the rear of the head (not all the way to the top). Take it off the wearer and lay it flat again so you know you've got each side the same, and mark the hem into the waste side of the seam. Extend this from where you stopped at the rear of the head to the right side of the cloth a couple of inches plus the hem below the end of the fold. This is the liripipe: a meter of cloth should give one around 2' long, if you want it longer add more from the waste. Tack the rear of the hood, all but the right-hand edge, and fit again. Yes, it's inside out still.
Now cut out and start to make up. That starts with the liripipe extension, pattern-matching from the waste under the start of it: you should cut two rectangles double the depth of what you left unsewn on the top right. Sew them end-to-end, face-to-face so the hems are buried, hem if you intend using it as a pocket. Make up the front of the neck, then the rear, hemming and sewing to the end of that tail and then up to the fold, like a long sausage. Reverse and pray it came out right!
If you're into fancy, you can fit a licing (no need to fill the pipe, just a hood slightly smaller - you did make the outer slightly loose, didn't you? The hood will fit like a glove then), dag the edges (do this as a set of cut darts when you sew the lining in before reversing the lot, I'd suggest leaving the rear of the liripipe where it meets the hood open as the hole everything inserts through, then saddle-stitch it closed).
It can be worn as a hood, a hat (wrap the pipe around the forehead, and use that as the core to roll the rest up into a hat so the dags are the last things to get rolled in), a snood, and a scarf, wrapping the pipe around the throat.