Wayback to the 1800s or in this life, to 2010. I’ve been trying to find this photo for quite a while, but it wasn’t any of the Flickr albums I expected it to be in. Finally, I chose a really long way to look for it, and honestly, there was no point except that I remembered these as being some of my favorite dresses I made. They were easy to sew and they fit the dolls beautifully. So… a pointless post, but since I put so much effort into finding the photo, this was from my September 5, 2010 post for a Runway Monday challenge.
The dresses were not part of the challenge. I dressed my hosts in them. I want to sew more of this style.
I don’t really know what the differences were between the US and UK, but the style looks American (which makes sense, of course).
There’s an upcoming post showing the dress pattern. I used fabrics that would make the dress look more old-fashioned and added collar embellishments. I wanted it to be 1800s but without hoop skirts, so pre-American Civil War, the dresses called day, work, or camp dresses.