Back, when I started with historical dresses and reenactment, aside from a trial piece, the first gown I made was a TARDIS blue dress with Roses. If you know me, I always loved no only to compose my outfits -even the modern, civilian ones- carefully (up to the point, when my shoelaces go well with my hairpins), also hide - or put them in plain side) references.
It was ever so fitting that my first "time travelling" dress was the color it was and decorated with roses.
I dearly love that dress, and used it to the point I though, if I see another picture of myself in that blue blob, I am going to puke.
I made other historical clothes since, a lot of them, but that firts one is still dear to my hear. However, when COVID came I gained so much weight it did not fit me anymore, and I also wanted to do something new, so when I we did a program for the Vígadó, I made a Hungarian ("court") bodice for the skirt.
When I first bought the fabric, I didn't really know, just how much I will need, and I bought a lot of it, so I had enough leftover for at least two more bodice. Thus, it was still *that* blue and I managed to hide some roses in the decorations.
Next Christmas I decided, that I had enough of feeling cold in the Gödölő castle, and I made a jacket to wear with the skirt, which also seemed a succesful solution, and I used that combination many times.
But then I started to loose weight, and by last Christmas, that weightloss was enough for all my previous bodices to hang on my. Literally to fall of my shoulders, and crumpling above my boobs. Something needed to be done.
Back, after the first couple of years, when I started to get bored of the blue dress, I bought some tulle, decorated with roses (just to keep on the theme), with the intention, of renewing the dress sometimes in the future. I felt that point in time arrived last december, so I dug it out of the stash, and I made a new overskirt, and using the very last bits of the taffeta, combined with the tulle a new bodice.
The overskirt was made without a pattern, I just made it up, and at the points, where I pulled it up, I added some roses from the cutoffs.
For the bodice this time I used the truly Victorian pattern, which time and again proved to be a really good one. By now I used it a number of time, in wastly different sizes, and always needed only minimal fitting. In place of a proper Bertha (the wide collar like of thingie around the shoulders) I added a wide ruffle, just to repeat the fabric used in the overskirt, and I added a puffed oversleeve.
Now, the sleeve could have been a cm or two longer to properly cover my tattoos, but as I said, it was the last bit of fabric I had left and I used every available cm's of it. It actually covers the tats, which only shows, if I am not careful to raise my arm. On the other hand, I do have a bit left over from the tulle, so I might just ad a narrow ruffle to the sleeves to completely hide the ink.
This weekend I will take out this dress again, and use it in the coronation weekend, an event in the Gödöllő Castle, commemorating the coronation of empress Sisi, who was also the queen of Hungary.
Come and see us there, if you can.
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