Janet Arnold, 1902-3 Day Dress.

For this project, We had to chose and accurately re-create a costume from one of Janet Arnold's three Patterns of Fashion books. I chose to make the 1902-3 Day Dress, which can be found at The Gallery of English Costume, Manchester.

http://www.manchestergalleries.org/our-other-venues/platt-hall-gallery-of-costume/

I went to visit the actual dress, and to extensive notes, (five hours worth to be exact!) and hundreds of photos of every single detail, in order to enable me to re-create the dress, using accurate techniques, as accurately as possible. Yes I realise I said the word accurate a lot then!

I chose the fabric in accordance with the original, it was the correct fabric, the correct weighting, and a slightly different colour to the original fabric, but hey, you can't have everything and two out of three isn't bad!

I did really enjoy this project, even though I was majorly stressed for most of it! My favourite part was the buttonhole stitched eyelets! I am very proud of them :)

I still need to add the Fleur De Lys decoration, but when I find time to do it, I will put the photographs on here!

This Project has helped me a lot in my construction processes, and I have learnt many new skills throughout this project to use in future costumes!

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