In this post I’m trying to explain the process of making my first robe à l’anglaise. It’s far from perfect, but I think it does look nice.
I’m not a fashion historian, and I’m not here to tell you how to or not to work. However, as I did benefit from the experience of other bloggers and of friends to make this, I hope this can help others as well.
In time, I will add some pictures of the finished gown. To see each picture’s credits, just pass the mouse over the image.
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Inspiration came from the fabric this time. Meet my curtain and bedsheet fabric.
I loved this indian yellow striped silk. It inspired the dress herself. I matched it with a cotton satin for bedsheets.
Yellow was quite fashionable in the previous decades. However examples of yellow robes à l’anglaise are not many. One of my favorites is the one from Fashion in Details:
http://workflow.arts.ac.uk/artefact/file/download.php?file=1011032&view=113942
And some inspiration came from Janet Arnold’s patterns of Fashion. Some from Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, a bit from the Duchess too.
But the key gown was Glenn Close’s black and yellow mise in Les Liesons Dangereuses. It had to be black and yellow.
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