I made the Madame de Pompadour Gown in order to recreate the Boucher portrait || 18th century sewing 

Rotfl .....Just by that comment alone, I bet it could!!!

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LOL! That is such a great way to put it.

Madame du Pompadour worked REALLY hard to keep Louis XV amused. Eventually, she found other women to serve the King in bed, but he would often eat his dinner with her because he enjoyed her company. She was unusually deferential and genuinely respectful to Queen Marie (which was admirable for « une Maîtresse en Titre »). She even reminded the King to pay enough attention to his Queen so that she would not feel slighted. Louis had married Marie in 1715, when he was 15 and she was about 21. Queen Marie had borne King Louis ten children in 12 years, and was apparently relieved to be able to stop bearing children.

@@Tina06019 GOOD GOD POOR DUDE

It was the ball of the clipped yew trees. Louis and five of the soldiers who acted as guards in Versailles (chosen so they were all the same height) attended as a set of topiaries. The ruse worked, and at least one lady who thought she was in with a chance of becoming the next 'maitresse en titre' spent the evening chatting up the wrong bush! Of course the king was occupied flirting with Madame de Pompadour.

@@patrickgallagher3513 and we think furries are weird...

@@jennyknepper They are :-)

This dress is actually my goal dress that I have been terrified to even begin to try because there's just so much to it but you are totally giving me courage to try

@@lilihermandez557 Make it! Make a crap one! Make a muslin so you can figure it out first, or go to your thrift store and get curtain fabric and bedsheets and make it out of that for like $11. You'll make so many mistakes, but once they're made you'll have a pretty good idea of how not to make them again. And then, when you have another go at the dress in a few months or a year or so, you won't be afraid of it. You did it before, with worse materials and a lot less knowledge, you're gonna kick it's ass now. And believe me, you already know so much more than you realise you do. Make the dress. You deserve it.

It's not about finding the light at the end of the tunnel. It's about finding the light throughout the whole journey. ❤

@ArtemisScribe is there somewhere where we can see her project and the dresses? It really got me curious to see pictures of her progress.

@@priscilanosoma6798 Not anymore sadly, she used to have a blog, but for personal reasons she doesn't now.

Thank you.

To be fair, at 2:40 in the video she literally asked her French speaking viewers to correct her in the comments. That said, people need to be more polite and gracious with their corrections.

Yeah, I think generally one should check through the comments to see if anyone else has mentioned the matter then leave it at that.

FUCK the french language.

@@sarahbettany7546 agree!! No need to pile on.

Thank you so much Olivia!

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Thank you so much Cathy!

Could you imagine if after all of this the majority of people emerged dressing or wanting to dress in historical ways and seeking out seamstresses to have their clothes made or to be taught to make their own? (I had been thinking this a few minutes before I saw your comment)

Thank you Jeanne! I really appreciate the kinddness today.

I’m not French but the way she pronounces “française” made me die a bit inside not gonna lie. However, it’s still not ok to make fun of her and a simple correction would’ve been so much better

robe a la française was pretty f*ed up though

Stomacher. Stomach. Hard c. No “ch” please.

Can you elaborate or provide a source for this info? I'm curious to learn more about it!

@@d00mpirate the memoirs of madame campan ;)

@@d00mpirate the incident was one involving the madame de noailles, which she became desperate when mme noailles noticed one of the attendants to the Queen was wearing her pins going up, which I think was above her station (please don't quote, read the original, I've read many memories and might remember it incorrectly)

@@d00mpirate "I perceived the eyes of Madame de Noailles fixed on mine. She made a sign with her head, and then raised her eyebrows to the top of her forehead, lowered them, raised them again, then began to make little signs with her hand. From all this pantomime, I could easily perceive that something was not as it should be; and as I looked about on all sides to find out what it was, the agitation of the Countess kept increasing. The Queen, who perceived all this, looked at me with a smile; I found means to approach her Majesty, who said to me in a whisper, ‘Let down your lappets, or the Countess will expire.’ All this bustle arose from two unlucky pins which fastened up my lappets, whilst the etiquette of costume said ‘Lappets hanging down.’” Memoirs of Madame Campan

@@d00mpirate there's a book by Daria Galateria called 'Etiquette at the court of Versailles'. But there's no translation in English I think. She mostly talks about the previous monarchs' courts.

Aww ❤️ these kinds of comments give me life. She's trying and knows she messing it up and you're so nice.

Also a French viewer and the pronunciations were more than fine!!!! Honestly, the fact that you're engaging with French culture and history in this methodical and entertaining way is FAR more important than any concern over pronunciations. I actually hadn't realised Madame de Pompadour's relationship had lasted 19 years and had been largely non-sexual for the last bit, and that was fascinating and informative. Keep sewing Sewstine, your work is EXTRAORDINARY ! (Both this and your doctoring!)

Thank you kind French viewers! It never ceases to amaze me that native speakers can be so much more compassionate about mistakes of someone genuinely trying to be respectful but still struggling than some self proclaimed experts who are non native speakers. You folks are a reminder that when we are trying to be respectful, we can actually get that consideration back in turn. Thank you for being good examples of what kindness truly is!

Omg Thank you Amy! I need that today.

Also, if anyone (not just Christine) has ever questions about how to pronounce a word from a different language, Google Translate has a feature where you type in the word you wanna know, and then press the speaker button in the same box. A computer voice will pronounce it for you. Very helpful!! I once used it to say a little sentence in Arabic to my colleague, and she understood me, and was super happy.

@@BMoll87 Well, the voiced translation SOMETIMES is okay, sometimes though it's a hot mess. I've had a lot of French speaking customers this year (and I just haven't had the energy at home to start brushing up) and even I knew once I hit the playback that certain things were incorrect for both context and pronunciation. It took rewriting the English twice to get it to translate understandably (ingredient names and functions are difficult enough to explain to someone without a decent background in biology in English🙈). In practice now, I try to make sure my English has the correct sentence structure for French (thank you learning American Sign Language to have that well cemented in my memory) before translating and hitting the playback button. English is a messy language and translates poorly into other languages based on sentence structure among other things, so a wide vocabulary to create alternative sentences helps, especially when asking complex questions or providing important directions.

@@KatieCottingham Mmmh.. I find that English-French translations are mostly decent. As well as English-German. (Those are the only languages I speak fluently, I cannot judge the rest) It gets messy if you try to translate from a non-english language to another non-english language..

lol thank you!

I wish I had alcohol as a more "normal" explanation for my "OH DAMN GIRL!", but alas, that's just my reaction and why I don't watch any of these in public or at work on a lunch break unless I'm hiding in my car. 🤪

Amen

Yes! I love her so much!!

I love how her mum drove her into maths so she wouldn’t end up like her dad, Lord Byron. (It still blows my mind that he’s her dad)

@@lateformyownbirth Yes its cool that she made a name for herself despite having a famous dad. She could have just as easily been "just that child of lord Byron thats freakishly good at math".

And considered the first computer programmer!

@@sentimentalcircuscurator WAIT ADA LOVELACE IS BYRON'S KID?!!

I didn't know aobut her! I totally added her to my list - thank you so much Magnolia!

@@Sewstine My absolute pleasure!

Thank you for the reminder! In my memory she was Madame du Corduroy. I knew it was wrong so I couldn't tell anyone about her. I am a huge fan of midwifery and La Leche League.

@@erikanichols9633Mme du Corduroy is the perfect nickname - queen of fabrics! I’m so pleased to have helped you remember her name for real! It’s lovely knowing that others know about her and value her work.

Did she study at Salerno Medical School in N of Italy, started around 800 AD, that taught, and STILL teach both men and women students !? (See websites for this and University of Padua? that started around 1100 AD !!) Or perhaps she studied at 1 of 1700s Spain s universities that had women students AND professors (only during reign of 1 King. ??) ?

Thank you Zack! :D Yours will be even prettier!

Thank you Lauren! I worked hard on that insert!

It was, indeed, perhaps the best Segway ever!

SAME 😂

A woman like that, I wouldn’t be surprised if she was

I've been saying 'I just snogged Madame de Pompadour!' on and off ever since she started making this dress haha

Same 🤩

Yeah, I teared up too

Thank you so much!

Beautifully said. I wholeheartedly agree!!!

Check me out on December 8th. :) I'll be teaching how to make my dresses.

Thank you so much Alaska!