So.. long time no see. 

The CopyCut Project is a bit on a hiatus, because... well, everything I say now, will sound like an excuse, and practically, it is one. 

The upcoming schoolproject will occupy me for the next weeks, and I won't hesitate to give you a view inside the mystery of the art of tailoring. This design will also be the first item available at BlackNo.1

Soon there will be an accessories series, too!

Lady Rose and myself are working on our first collection.

Here is Shalott modeling one of the headpieces:

Will be available in color soon!

In the meantime I was experimenting with shoes...

I wanted to alter my old boots and spray a lace-pattern to give them a new look, but they are gone! Somehow... they are gone. 

So, I just took my old pumps. Simply trial&error:

 I took aerosol fixative and pasted the lace gently on the shoe.

That's how it looks with grey color... i think I should have taken a darker grey...>_<

Shiny shiny with gloss spray to secure the color. Tadaaaa!

I have these shoes since summer now, but never wanted to wear them, except once. So I decided to spray them black.

Way better, I don't like the bast. Now I think the next step will be applying some lace and maybe some ribbons.

 

Imagine this lace pattern with 20-eye boots! :D

Cheers!

CopyCut - Phase One: It's starting!

Finally, we get going. So far we have decided the complete undergarments.

I've decided mine by adjusting and comparing with these two dresses:

I will go for drawers from 1889-93. It's a free pattern, which can be found online at the Ladies Treasury of Costume and Fashion.

They do not have the scale measures for drafting this garment, so I will have to draft to the size given and then alter to fit.

This will be the chemise which I will be doing:

I will have small alterations done, because I think I will go for a V neck.

Found at La Couturière Parisienne.

 

This 1883 Corset appears in Norah Waughs Corsets&Crinolines and is pretty much what I want my Corset to look like. It's not the one, I wanted to do first, but the other would have been too early for a 1888 Bustle Dress.  It's a black coutil corset, edged with black lace and yellow ribbon. I haven't decided yet about the colors, I'd like to do something black, or black with antique pink, ... but I still have a huge amount of beautiful striped material in black/brown/dark brown and gold.

Wonderful (time-fitting!) Corset Covers we found over at Digital Changeling.

There are many Corset Covers, and even free patterns for them, but out of some reason, we can't find any for the needed decade (1880ies). The ones we have seen were either too early (~1860) or to late in time (1910)

So.. there's quite a lack of... corset covers for this time. I actually wonder how that can be.

We found a wonderful example of Bustle-Underskirt at Digital Changeling and will draft it ourselves.

After finishing the other undergarments mentioned we will aim for the one in the upper left corner.

Check Rose's blog, we may have the same goal, but our construction slightly differs. That's what makes it so interesting. :)

xxx, mae

Let's honor the internetz.

Time to be thankful.

Without the internet i wouldn't have this blog, naturellement. 

But without the internet I wouldn't have the possibility to see THESE amazing costumes, which I can't see in real because a) the V&A Museum is a little bit too far away at this moment and b) nobody wears these anymore. Damn you!

These are just amazing and will be the final goal for the CopyCut-Project!

Rose has found the one on the right and this wonderful, fitting umbrella. I think those two would be looking great on us two.

 

So, CopyCut is finally going to be starting. Await the next posts for further intormation!

xxx, mae

roses and lavender & CopyCut

Rose is a very good friend of mine and at least as passionate about costumes as me. Here she shows a wonderful collection of stunning corsetry of the 19th Century. Have a look!

roses and lavender: Corsets and Crinolines Pt. II: "Corsets, second half 19th century These are pieces of art. Corsets, about 1850-1900."

But, first of all, we have a massive project coming up. Lady Rose and my humble self will sew up a complete historical bustledress from scratch. As we try to keep as close to the original as possible, it will drive us mad for sure. But, we will try! In the next few days a better introduction with sketches will follow. We will try to keep you informed and would be happy if you take the journey with CopyCut through the whole next year.

Cheers, m.