Wearing the House of Worth couture fashion from 1900

Today's get ready with me is going to be the fanciest of fanciest, the most expensive of expensive historical dresses. So if you've ever wondered what it's like to get dressed in a house of work gown from the early 1900s, now is the chance for both you and me to find out. I almost always forget to put my shoes on before my corset, but today I'm finally going to actually remember. So we're starting with some silk stockings. I found these little satin dancing slippers. I actually had a really tough time trying to find shoes that met all of my requirements. I wanted this color with a very low heel and a round toe. Literally nothing was just quite right, so I ended up buying the largest size of children's shoe that you can find, and they ended up being perfect. I wear a lady's size 8. I think these are a big kid's 6. I made a new silk corset for the occasion because my favorite blue one was looking a little bit rough. Most of my chemises have a much higher neckline on them, but because this is an evening dress it's cut lower than all of my day wear. And even though it's a pretty fancy event, I'm lacing for comfort, not for shape today. I'm going to be there for a couple of hours and I want to have fun, so padding my hips will also make my waist seem a little bit smaller without actually having to lace any tighter. This petticoat will help fluff out the bottom of the skirt all the way around the hem. It does have a little bit of a train on it, so if the hem of my dress gets flipped up, this is the only thing you'll be able to see. This petticoat only has ruffles down the back. This makes the back of the gown look really beautiful and full. This is the last petticoat, and it has two functions. Again, it also helps with the shape and keeping the hem like really nice and fluffy looking, but the other thing it does is it makes this really fun sound. That's because this petticoat is made out of silk taffeta, and the name of that expensive swishy noise is actually scroop. This is a dust ruffle or sometimes it's also called a belayuse. Really stiff cotton, so it accomplishes two things. First of all, it keeps the hem of the skirt clean, and it keeps the hem of the skirt like spread out nicely around you. This is the bottom half of the ball gown. In case you're not familiar with this project, if you haven't been following it the whole time, this is all beaded, and it's all done by hand. It's super sparkly in person, but it's really hard to get the camera to pick that up, so we're going to put it on very, very carefully. I thought I was being all clever by putting buttons in for the dust ruffle, but honestly I wish I had just basted it in, which I might still do if I have time. You can kind of get a little bit better look at the skirt. Tiny hotel room is not the right place to be filming this. I left the laces for the bodice super long so that I could slip it on over my head and then just tighten it in the back. Normally when I'm at home I just have my husband do up the back of these things for me, but I'm in a hotel room by myself, so we had to have a little bit of ingenuity to get this on. And this is why I haven't done my hair yet. Here's the bodice. Oh my god, I can't believe it's finally time for this ball. I've been looking forward to it for months and months at this point. And then the super long tails, I'm going to try and just tuck them into the back of the skirt. This is the jewelry that I bought to go with it. I thought it kind of looked like raindrops because these are like little sapphires. I thought it'd be a nice nod to the clouds and the sun on the bottom of the dress. Matching earrings. I'm running out of time before the ball, so I'm just going to tuck my hair up real quick so you can kind of get the effect. And then no real hair for this. I'm going to end up probably doing that off camera so that I can take my time and not be stressed about it. Okay, I'm going to sneak out and take some pictures on the stair landing. This hotel's like a beautiful old grand gilded age mansion. A lot of the common areas are like really beautiful. Hopefully my hotel neighbors don't think I'm too strange. I almost forgot the key to my hotel, which would have been really awkward going down to the desk looking like this to get a new key. This on forever. The final part of this series is just going to be footage from the ball, so if you also want to see what everyone else was wearing, definitely like and subscribe so you can see the last part of the series. Thank you so much for watching and I will see you next time!