2024-12-26

mandie_rw: (red rose)
2024-12-26 02:10 pm

1830s dinner dress plans for 2025

This isn't at all what I should sew first, mind you, but it's occupying brain space so I'll write a post up for it and make a DW tag, and maybe it'll go away!

You know, I know, we all know that the height of Romantic style in the late 1820s-early 1830s hasn't really been my jam. I think it's delightfully ridiculous on everybody else and I love seeing people make it, but I've avoided making a big-sleeved 1830s dress for Robin's Young Victoria dinner for years. I made a few 1830s dresses years ago when the trend first came out here, and I've sold them on because I've never liked them. Too frou-frou, and I don't actually enjoy feeling like a giant ridiculous doll.

But! There is a Costume in Detail dress that I've had half an eye on for years, and it is in fact dated 1830-33.
illustration of a large sleeve 1830s dress  illustration of a short sleeve 1830s dress

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