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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 369198" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>I was just having a look at other dresses on that site and found this one which easy child 2/difficult child 2 would kill for.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280412186209" target="_blank">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280412186209</a></p><p></p><p>This would be so easy to make, but I would make a few changes in the design - gore the skirt more full, maybe use a cream lace for at least some of the under layer (sleeves for example), maybe a centre panel with faux lacing, and perhaps that flat angular bodice effect they had in Elizabethan times. The shepherdess look with an over-layer would be easy to do - the original was actually an outer layer of fabric which was caught up and out of the way when ladies were walking in the (muddy) streets and it gradually became a fashion to be worn at other times too. The outer layer was therefore a somewhat heavier fabric, the under layers lacier and more delicate and exposed by the outer layer being pulled back. </p><p></p><p>easy child 2/difficult child 2 made herself a dress like this for her prom. She couldn't find the fabric she wanted, so used that plastic-backed curtain fabric for the centre panel! it looked fabulous, nobody had a dress like it. </p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 369198, member: 1991"] I was just having a look at other dresses on that site and found this one which easy child 2/difficult child 2 would kill for. [url]http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280412186209[/url] This would be so easy to make, but I would make a few changes in the design - gore the skirt more full, maybe use a cream lace for at least some of the under layer (sleeves for example), maybe a centre panel with faux lacing, and perhaps that flat angular bodice effect they had in Elizabethan times. The shepherdess look with an over-layer would be easy to do - the original was actually an outer layer of fabric which was caught up and out of the way when ladies were walking in the (muddy) streets and it gradually became a fashion to be worn at other times too. The outer layer was therefore a somewhat heavier fabric, the under layers lacier and more delicate and exposed by the outer layer being pulled back. easy child 2/difficult child 2 made herself a dress like this for her prom. She couldn't find the fabric she wanted, so used that plastic-backed curtain fabric for the centre panel! it looked fabulous, nobody had a dress like it. Marg [/QUOTE]
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