Using Couture Techniques to Sew an Edwardian Inspired Dress | Making a 1901 Evening Gown Pt 1

This project allowed me to practice using all of the couture techniques I learned in school! We've finally reached the actual making of the dress for my Foundation's Revealed contest entry, in which I will be sewing an Edwardian (late victorian?) inspired gown.. I go into quite a few ways you can add a more couture finish to your garment making so I hope this is helpful to you! This is part 1 of the dress making and covers the construction, where as part two will cover the embellishments.

In this video I cover how to add flipper bones to a gown and what they're used for, how to make lingerie straps, how to add boning to a dress in a way that won't be visible from the outside, fitting a mockup and a final dress fitting, how to flat line a dress using a popcorn tin, hand overcast seam finish, and couture finished closures using metal hooks and hand-worked thread loops covered by a ribbon for that super clean look! I also include some tips for how to fit a muslin mock up on yourself so you can make your life easier and get a more precise fit.

Victor Prouvé's The Bord de Rivière au Printemps (Riverside in Spring) dress - https://twitter.com/AnneLouiseAvery/status/1106335887468756995

Skip ahead:
0:00 Intro
1:14 Patterning
1:29 Mock-Up Fitting
6:48 Flat Lining
7:40 Prepping Boning and Boning Channels
8:10 Ribbon Covered Hook Closures
8:41 Hand Overcast Seam Finish
8:54 Boning the Bodice
10:24 Cutting Bias Binding
10:41 Hand-worked Thread Loops for Hook Closures
11:25 Final Dress Fitting
15:15 Hem and Neck Edge Finishing
15:47 How to make Flipper Bones
17:30 How to make Lingerie Straps
18:44 Outro

Books and Articles Mentioned:
"1908 Dinner Dress 1" by Cathy Hay - https://members.foundationsrevealed.com/2016/12/21/1908-dinner-dress/
"The "Standard" Work on Cutting-Out Ladies' Tailor Made Garments" - https://archive.org/details/standardworkoncu00gord

Materials + Tools:
Silk/Rayon Blend Satin from Fabrics.com - https://www.fabric.com/buy/0730034/duchess-satin-white
Mercerized Cotton from Mood Fabrics (Flat-lining and boning channels) - https://bit.ly/2O4XwD9
Hooks + Eyes - https://www.wawak.com/Garment-Construction/Hook-Eyes/round-hook-eyes-144-setspack/?sku=HERG1BK
Synthetic Whalebone from Farthingales (in Canada) - https://bit.ly/36RppFp

Other Videos in this Series:
🎀Sewing THOSE Victorian Combinations From the Met || Making Some Frilly 1890s Underwear : https://youtu.be/o3aFoYWIaf8
🎀Making a Victorian Corset from an 1876 Pattern || Inspired by the Met's Maison Leoty 1890's Corset : https://youtu.be/N0zJYmyj17M
🎀Late Victorian Petticoat Sewing Vlog || Making a Met Museum Inspired Victorian Era Petticoat : https://youtu.be/BhJ6ZCUjPes

#costube #foundationsrevealedcompetition2021

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All music is from Epidemic Sound:
"For Jack" - Arden Forest
"The Wisdom of Trees" - Yonder Dale
"In Stillness" - Gavin Luke
"What Once Was" - Gavin Luke

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