Crafting An Enormous 1860s Crinoline Dress from the

Crafting An Enormous 1860s Crinoline Dress from the

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Making a spring dress for myself in the style of the women in Claude Monet's Women in the Garden. This dress has an elliptical crinoline that was popular in 1865, tons of ruffle and I even made a cute little bonnet.

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The skirt pattern is TV247 1865 Elliptical Skirt by Truly Victorian: https://trulyvictorian.info/index.php...

I took the bodice pattern from the book: The Victorian Dressmaker by Izabela Pitcher: https://www.priorattire.co.uk/ourshop...

Links to the pictures:

Claude Monet, Women in the Garden via Wikimedia Commons (public domain): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Claude Monet, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, Pushkin museum (public domain): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Claude Monet, Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe, the middle fragment, public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Monet dans son atelier, photo by Pierre Choumoff, public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...

Claude Monet, photo by Nadar, via Wikimedia commons, public domain: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...