I think the mystery dresses are probably part of the 1970s folkwear revival, but they work so well with the Arts and Crafts aesthetic of the Edwardian era! Another gorgeous capsule. These are so much fun to watch.
I found them so beautiful. It can be hard to find things that incorporates heirloom sewing for women as well as smocking and these hit the money for me.
Great capsule wardrobe. I’m an RSCDS dancer and may use some of it for my games wardrobe too. Did want to suggest to Jesse that she might enjoy using thistles, heather, and elements of her clan badge for the white work/embroidery sections. It would be much more personal and surely get a lot of attention at the more formal events - especially Burns dinners.
I had thought of this 🥰 my mother's name is Heather Rose so both flowers will be added. A tiny wolf will probably also find its way in there somewhere as my father's nickname is Wolf Man. I didn't consider my clan badge but I may add that to a knit shall.
You did a good job of drawing the woman's kilt! Basically, it's a wrap skirt with part pleating, part a flat, pencil skirt look. There's darts for the fit and the 2 belts allow for a bit of wriggle room. There's usually a pin towards the bottom to stop the flap from opening. You could definitely wear the kilt on the daily as you could easily brush off mud stains and the likes, it's a bit like a wool coat really 🤷🏼♀️ plus the colours are usually pretty forgiving. And then you'd get it dry cleaned at the end of the winter
The note about skirts is interesting. I am wearing a half circle skirt that I made simply to save time I didn't have for patterning, using a combination of historical and historybounding techniques. Because the entire thing hangs on a bias it stretched terribly even after hanging, so I ended up taking up and evening the hem a few weeks later. But the only way to really know what skirt length you like is to live in it. I settled on a hem length that would be historically seen on a working class woman and I'm quite happy with it!
When you think about it we do so many of the jobs working class women did themselves and middle and upper class women had someone do for them (e.g. washing the floor, hanging clothes out to dry) we have a lot of mechanical helpers (vaccum cleaner instead of taking the rugs out and beating them, washing machine instead of a tub of water) but a lot of jobs still just require human power.
Gosh, this one is my favorite now! I've missed your capsule wardrobes and boy, did you deliver. Now I want to make all the lace blouses, they are gorgeous. BTW do you know how your previous patrons are doing with their capsules? It's interesting how your vision is brought to life and what changed in the process.
Mine was done 10 months ago... I've done nothing...life and previously planned projects got in the way. and now I'll have an infant soon that will reduce my sewing time, and growing said baby makes it hard to sew clothes for myself, as I don't know what my post-birth body will be...I still want to make it. It's the 1910's one.
@@mackenzie5522 Congratulations! I avoided making stuff while pregnant too, although in practice my body didn't change that much I will say that once baby is here you will have even less time unless Dad (or extended family/ paid helpers) really step up to take over a large chunk of the childcare responsibilities, while baby is on the inside their safety, entertainment & nutrition runs on autopilot, on the outside it's much more involved. Also Sense and Sensibility has a 1910s blouse pattern with nursing adaptation built in. I met the owner once, and she has a big family so has practiced this making clothes that adapt to pregnancy and breastfeeding concept.
@@ElizabethJones-pv3sj ya I fully anticipate very little craft time after the little one arrives, hubby seems like he will be a good dad, but as of now the plan is to breastfeed, so regardless how great he is, that puts baby physically on me very often lol. I probably won't get around to the capsule until he is like a toddler haha but that's life 🤷
In Australia, rayon is brilliant for drape that is good for hot, humid, or layered in the cold. Im from South Eastern Australia and have rayon brilliant.
I feel like at least half this capsule was made for me (clan Wallace leaning into Edwardian-inspired clothing)! Thank you, Jessie and Mariah, for some great inspiration!
Oh I have missed your capsule wardrobe videos! I know they are probably super labour intensive but they're my absolute favourite to watch, they always inspire me and watching you illustrate is just mesmerising.
My daughter used to do Highland dancing and wore cute little velvet vests. And her 'blouse' was actually just a plain white t-shirt with puff sleev3s and lace attached to thr t. I'm quite tempted to try something similar for myself some 5ime!
I was a Highland dancer and had the same. Starter kit was black velvet vest and the plain blouse with attached lace. When l invested in my own kilt (rather than second-hand kilts passed around the dancing school as we grew) l got a midnight blue to go with my kilt tartan. I still went for a vest as l wasn't performing outside in winter. I also had the female costume of a thinner green velvet vest with scalloped hem worn over the gathered, thin tartan cotton fabric and broderie anglaise underskirts.
This capsule is really good! The pocketed top makes me think about Jane's top. Not when she first arrived in the jungle but after she met Tarzan and start dressing more casually, ditching the hat and the gloves
I do not even have the words for how much I appreciate these videos, this series. I get to see the plans and how they work together. This one is extra special! I’m Scottish/Cherokee (because that is a thing that happened) AND my favorite period for clothes is The Edwardian period.
I feel like I say this every time, but I love this capsule wardrobe! I think this is my favourite one you've done so far. I'm definitely going to be making some of these pieces, I especially love the long -sleeved blouse and the coat!
One particular thing that I like about this (they are many, like the designs themselves are gorgerous, but talking about it as a whole) is the combination of light coloured tops with bottoms that do the most of the colours. I feel that helps with how you can combine things with each other easily while still having lots of colour options.
I'm Australian and my favourite place for cheap natural fibre materials (including nice wools and voiles) is supercheap fabrics. They have a good online store and frequent sales, so definitely recommend it for any of my fellow aussies
Tip for stopping your blouses from popping out, is to add a gusset in the armscye or when cutting out raise the armscye so it fits more snugly. If it's a fitted sleeve, then you also add extra to the seam allowance where it joins the body and grade into the sleeve cap. There's a great video on it that I can link if anybody would like. Also another tip is to make sure there's enough room across the bustling.
You do such an extraordinary job planning these out- I cannot even begin to think how difficult it must be for your brain to move from a whole Pinterest board of ideas down to the final iterations we see here. Great choices, wonderful designs. Thanks so much for sharing.
These are my favourite videos! I think I like planning more than the actual sewing! You won’t find much lawn fabric in the most accessible chain fabric stores in Australia. I often see patterns recommending lawn, challis, Swiss Dot, chambray and struggle find any if that on shelf. It’s mostly chock full of cotton poplin! However you can get the old-fashioned thin cotton muslin and voile here fairly easily.
Suppy here in Australia for any fine fabric is.... Well.... Difficult. I tend to use Batiste as a sub for lawn as it is at least cotton most of the time. Finding good quality without slubs is another conversion to have entirely (looking at you Spotlight).
@@Shorty24136 I can’t recall ever seeing batiste at Spotlight either to be honest. I’ve mostly built up my stash shopping online which opens the options but I do prefer to feel the fabric before I buy. Sadly there is only Spotlight within at least a 45min drive from me in Adelaide. The two independent fabric stores im aware of are ages away and the other local store only does quilting cottons. Sigh. Wool? Forget about it.
Your capsule wardrobes make so much more sense to me than the classic examples I've seen, mainly because you take the individual's personality into consideration.
thank you.iam Scottish I am retired now. My problem is I wore unfroms my closet has Church dress suits, a few pants tops for day. they are years old and plain. I sew well. Been thinking what do the Scottish Ladies wear. Watching this show is perfect. I am Canadian so 4 seasons mostly cold. This is perfect for me. Thank you.Ihave lots of old lace from grandma and I hand craft finish. Love the colours. I can I am sure make my own patterns Yah have lots of time on my hands. Thanks. all the best to other lady.
Love these capsule designs so much 🥰 Also, hearing about the things you’re trying out in your wardrobe to accomodate a short waist is always supremely helpful. Great vid!
I caught this video by chance and I loved this idea so much, I've decided to do a 1940s and 1740s historybounding costume for Comic-con as a nod to Outlander. Thank you for this creative and awesome video!
Oh that's wonderful. You did a great job of taking the inspiration pictures to make a beautiful wardrobe. I think you hit a nice balance of practical and dressy.
I am so excited for a new capsule wardrobe video! I realize they are a ton of work, but they are amazing. It's fun to see what happens when the inspiration is more than a single(ish) time period .
Really interesting to see teh designing process! Please keep posting more of these, personally I leant a lot about wardrobe building and starting my edwardian wardrobe I think I can decide and prioritze on my projects a lot easier now.
I wonder if you are thicker around the waste, maybe an empire waste would work better for you, right under the bust, as that may actually be your narrowest area...something you might try is to try belting a looser top in several different ways and see what looks best: waste, underbust, wide belt, narrow belt.
I love your capsule wardrobes!!! I missed this kind of video. I like more commentary in this one, it was nice to see your inspiration and the whole process to final garments. I hope we could see more ❤️
I love this series so so much! As much as I love watching you draw. Also I think the second og blouse is my favorite and I'd love one like it right now. Except with short or no sleeves, cause it's too hot for long sleeves.
Great job! I like very much the floral top. And white embroidery. The waist drawstring sounds nice. Recently, I started to pin shirts (even me-made) to waistband of skirt, and while it works like charm, it's not very good when you need to undress fast, like during change in swimming pool.
I love what you have done with this! I think the dress where you were not sure from which time the fashion comes from - might be around 1918 - the waistline is already lowering, but not low enough to be 20s (that started around the high hip and moved down. By the end of the 20s the fabrics where different then here, less frill, the waist lines were going up again, but the dresses were also shortening to just below the knee, where these are still a bit longer
I liked those secret pants way more than I thought I would, when mentioned in the video. They were probably my favorite piece 😍 suprisingly enough, since I've never paid secret pants much mind.
I’ve been starting to figure out my wardrobe mix of medieval/Viking, Colonial, Regency, Victorian, 😅😅 and a side of 50’s for bathing suit and cocktail dresses seasonal appropriate. Aka regency - summer and Georgian - winter . Hope it works out 😂 Thanks for the inspiration
I live rural and I like long skirts but a working length skirt. During most eras women wore slightly shorter skirts. But, we aren’t used to wearing them anymore. I would love to get back to it. Im working on it though.
I love the idea of making a Edwardian dress but I would look silly wearing it. My husband would think I lost my marbles. Maybe I’ll make a doll size one and put it on my miniature dress form. Now I have to find a mini pattern
4:51 I'm long-waisted and have the same problem with blouses (I call it "muffin waist," LOL). I think it's just the nature of the beast--er, blouse--to pull out of a skirt unless it's really long or secured in some way. I've taken to wearing vests or jumpers/sleeveless dresses over blouses to prevent this problem. 😜
i enjoy watching you design these wardrobes and am jealous of your digital skills. when you design these, are the customers required to drape/adapt their own patterns? or do you help with that direction as well?
When you were designing the lace blouses, I was triying to imaging how to incorpoarte the tartan in to it, since the tartan is so heavy and strong against the delicate fabric and lace y just though how about referecing it. Instead of the pintuck section maybe embroidered crossed lines as the tartan pattern, in sowfter colors ashint of a tartan...
Is there a good tutorial that you can suggest or could you make a tutorial and how to use this program to design our own outfits? I'd love to make some design collections of my own but don't know the first thing about how to use this program
I don't know why people think all the pieces need to match. I have lots of things I only wear as sets. I watched one capsule wardrobe which was primarily black and chunky. She kept pairing a pink tule circle skirt with all her black tops and shoes. It would have looked so much better with a winter white top and tan shoes or soft boots (white shoes always look terrible after a couple of wears). It didn't really go with her wardrobe at all. Your wardrobe was lovely by the way. I think the work pants would look good in denim as well. It's nice to have wider leg pants if she has to wear boots for protection. Tucking pants into boots just seems like it would be uncomfortable, but it would keep the pants cleaner. She could always make them capri length.
