Memory of summer

I had yet another photoshoot day with my photographer pal. This time we did 18th century and I wore my floral print jacket, white petticoat and straw bergere. Back to the nature :)

All photos @ Suvi Korpi. Please do not copy or repost without permission!

A couple of (actually so many, only two here) photos in the studio before going out.

This photo is so layered in content that I can't even. The venue is the ruins of an old church, built in the 16th century. It burned down in 1852 when my hometown burned in its entirety (and was subsequently moved 10km towards the coast and north. I'm standing there wearing 18th century clothes, and the photo was taken with a 21st century camera.

This might be my favourite.

There were sheep!

Flower print jacket and a take on 18th century styling

I made a new 18th century jacket this week, mainly because I wanted to have something new to wear at Isokyrö 18th century fair. I finished the piece just in time (read: stayed up until 3 a.m. on Friday night to put last stitches on it...) and it was a joy to wear. There were plenty of good reenactor photographers at the fair yesterday so I expect to get some nice pics of the whole get-up in action soonish, but meanwhile here are some I took today.

The jacket is a modified version of my earlier black swallowtail jacket. I made the petticoat this week too. I might embroider the hem later.

I changed the shape of the hem for this one, making it round rather than pointy

The fabric is the same Ikea bed sheet I used for my flowery anglaise. I still have heaps of it left...

The jacket is pinned close and it has a separate stomacher with ribbon decoration.

Since I dressed up for photos of the jacket I wanted to try some different styles with it. Here's what I came up with:

My Parisian chic

Party version of the anglaise

The anglaise doesn't have proper ribbons to pull the hem up, here it's just pinned and looks a bit strange.

Don't look at the hair too closely. I just threw some pins and hair rats at it and didn't style it properly.

Robe à l'Anglaise retroussée & the frilly petticoat

The Jane Austen Festival and my trip to Bath are just a week away and I really should be putting finishing touches to my Regency wardrobe, but I couldn't resist sewing the striped anglaise. I even managed to find fabric for a petticoat, though at first it seemed a bit hopeless.

I made the anglaise after  Costume Close-up pattern and as it is my first proper anglaise gown with en fourreau back, I'm rather pleased with it. I'd like to fix the gaping front edges, but other than that, the gown is comfortable, fits well and I'm even beginning to get over that it does look rather pink. Everything is handsewn.

The petticoat is yet another ordinary petticoat, only this time I added a frill on the hem and made the skirt slightly shorter than usual because that looks good with the hem pulled up. I chose to machine sew the petticoat because the fabric (cotton with some sort of finish to make it slightly shiny) was very thightly woven and handsewing it felt like too much of an effort. Besides, sewing petticoats is boring, boring, boring. AND I had to hem not only the skirt itself but also the frill (ca. 6m in lenght) on both edges. Somehow that didn't  sound too appealing.

I'm hoping to wear this ensemble at a little ball at the end of September after I've returned from Bath.

I'm not sure if I should add some bows or ribbons

I really like the way that the petticoat looks here

Posing with the harp