Accordingly a number women figure why it inappropriate for apply certain designs that are and patterns of that is clothes, after once a certain age. Evening dresses were made from delicate, sheer fabrics embellished with beads, lace, and similar trimmings that floated over a silk underlayer.
Most dresses included two skirts, one tunic skirt that matched the bodice that usually ended between the low hip and the knees, and one ‘anklelength’ trained underskirt.
V necklines were most common, but deep VS with a horizontal inset, round, and square necklines were also worn, bodices featured short sleeves. While the natural waistline was just starting to come into fashion, the high waistline was popular from 1908 through 1912, Waistlines gonna be placed anywhere between just under of the bustline and the natural waist. By the way, the waistline itself was loose and softly defined with a sash or belt.
With the tunic overskirt comparatively fuller, the underskirt was generally slim.
Surplice/cross over bodices were also popular.
So general outline for an evening dress must be an underdress and tunic effect. As we are a very small amateur company we can’t afford to make the costumes particularly accurate but you gave me a number of ideas for converting more modern long dresses into something approaching the style of the period. Furthermore, many thanks. I am researching costume for a production of a Inspector calls and found this an excellent informative site. Most had probably been custom made in Paris, London, or the United States in the previous year. With winter over but spring styles just beginning to be announced in Vogue, march and early April were a transitional period during this era. Her first class passengers boarded with trunks full of expensive, beautiful clothes, when the Titanic set sail in April 1912.
Plus, images of evening gowns featured in Vogue in the course of the same period, For all those making Titanic era costumes who seek for to be completely ‘up to the minute’, I’ve compiled a list of new trends mentioned in Vogue magazine from January to March 1912 either general or specific to evening wear.
Underneath, women wore combinations or long, princess line chemises.
Bust bodices or brassieres supported the bust. On p of this, columnar line, corsetry was less focused on restricting the waist and more on smoothing the hip, since the goal was a long. This is the case. Still lower than our modern silhouette, they might be boned or unboned. Thus provided a soft foundation that was higher than the Edwardian monobosom. These look somewhat like corset covers sleeveless, white cotton garments and ended anywhere between the bottom of the bust and the waist.
To maintain a slim silhouette, underwear was trimmed with flat bows and bands of lace. Beneath their gowns, women wore corsets that began under the bust and extended well down over the hips. Created from cotton webbing or grosgrain/petersham ribbon anywhere from 54″ wide, the staybelt provided a further fixed foundation to attach most of the various layers. It is they are mounted to a fitted cotton bodice lining that is often boned, that supports all those floating fabrics, while the gowns of the period look diaphanous and draped. Evening gowns generally closed in a Z formation. Loads of information can be found by going online. Bridget Conlogue’s article on sewing dresses from this era has excellent explanations of this and similar period construction techniques. I’m sure you heard about this. Construction of evening gowns included two key points not immediately visible.
Check Nancy Bradfield’s Costume in Detail she has some very clear diagrams that will unconfuse you, if such a closure seems confusing.
This info is very helpful.
Hope to see you there! Tx area, stop by the JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER, ZALE AUDITORIUM, 7900 NORTHAVEN RD, DALLAS, TX, Show dates, Thursday, Feb ’21 30pm’, Sun, Feb 2424 pm and 30 pm, Thurs Feb ‘2830’ pm, Sat, Mar 2 8pm, Therefore in case you near the Dallas. I’m going in period clothing for opening night of Titanic, the Musical. With all that said… Women’s silhouettes shifted from the voluptuous ‘Sbend’ to a straighter, lighter line that seemed more natural and modern to contemporaries, as the Edwardian era waned and the Art Deco era approached. Other important designers of the era were Paquin, Lucile, Doucet, Fortuny, Lanvin, and Callot Soers. Beginning in 1908, designer Poiret led this new look which featured narrower bodices, slim skirts, and raised waistlines. So early years of the 1910s were an era of transition in fashion for women. Inspired by the Ballets Russes, designers infused the new look with a Orientalist aesthetic rich fabrics in vibrant colors that followed the cut and drape of Asian garments just like the kimono while simultaneously referencing the Directoire period. Actually the new influence of orientalism introduced stronger colors like grey, royal blue, and emerald.