TUDOR

Do you like the TUDOR era.

Most people do. This is my youngest

daughter Pepper. Pepper loves the

Tudors and watches the series on

television. Pep is modeling her Tudor gown

and it is 90 degrees outside!

Surely way back then when the women

of England wore these fabrics and gowns

that it was much colder. I hope that it was.

I would burn up in this gown if I wore it!! 

She had to make this for her Drama class.

And she passed with flying colors!!

The pattern that she bought did not look

anything like this. She had to also

design her gown and this is what

she did.

My only role in the making

of this gown was to instruct her what to do

in order to get the look that she was looking

for. And I was happy to be a part of it any

way that she would have let me. 

The entire gown is lined and was made

from upholstery fabrics and wool.

Also my sewing machine would NOT sew any

of this fabric because it was so thick with the trims

so Pep had to HAND-SEW it all together!!

She used crochet cord and a large needle

to sew it all together.

Doesn't she look beautiful!!

 These are the bell sleeves that she trimmed with

red trim. Can you just imagine how much

fabric that this took. The sleeves are actually 3

sleeves. The big bells that hang down. The skinny

sleeve that goes up her arm and plus there is a

long green sleeve underneath. Plenty of trims

in the sleeves. In my opinion since

many of these gowns never made it to our

lifetime to view - and what ones we do see have

different fabrics in them that -

 it is a possiblilty that they recycled

many of their gowns to make into newer

gowns. Perhaps that could explain why many

of these gowns had so many different colors.

I only believe that recycling has always been going

and that recyling is not a new thing.

 Her bell sleeves are open for you to view

the front of the gown. The fabric colors

are chocolate brown, a golden brown &

a paisley. The cream in her bodice is

100% wool and it is lined. It has a small

little band of lace that matches the bottom

of her gown. To tie in the sleeves she sewed

some bands at the bottom and also trimmed

it in red trim. There is a lot of small and

large green trim also in this gown. The

gown has lots of detail. She was thinking

about making a belt to go high above

the waist but she did not have enough time

to sew one of them.

 She lifted up one of the bell sleeves

so you could see her inner sleeve.

Thick fabric with cream wool for the

inner lining. We did not know when

buttons were invented so she took small

tassels from a trim and sewed them

on so they would not dangle. They almost

look like buttons.

 The back of the gown is the most dramatic

part of the gown. Underneath this green

train that is trimmed with red - there is also

another train that is brown. Can you see

it behind the red lining.

 Maybe you can tell on this pic how the chocolate

brown sweeps back.

 She is heading up the steps to the front of my

house. Zoom in to see the detail with the

little tassels at the top of her train. We could

not help seeing her bra strap.

 I almost forgot the hair piece. I instructed

her also on how to do this. This was

the easiest of her entire project taking

her about 10 minutes to construct.

She also had to make a power point and

do a story on the movie that she watched.

The era was HENRY V. And the beautiful

actress Emma Thompson played Catherine.

I hope you enjoyed these pics.

Hopblogger