Ghirardelli should hire you to appear randomly at their candy stores when their peppermint is in season. They should pay you the EARTH to do this. You would be the ultimate peppermint lady!
"I can't with this project anymore, I just want this DONE!" Me: Looks down at the blanket I've been crocheting off and on for over a year and am running out of yarn AGAIN. "Mood."
Woohoo.....a hat! Loving that...I did giggle re traffic cone comment. Great on thinking forward re use-again and storage. Decorating's always tricky for proportion ...totes loving that beautiful braid and looking forward to the reveal. Thank you Rebecca for making a bright bubbly vlog to wake up to and begin Tuesday with....hrah. Now back to the daily grist.....L.
I feel like the bows made all the difference with the sleeves. They really bring the sleeve and the dress together into a beautiful whole, and I kind of love them.
I know you were over it by the time you got to the hat, but I really appreciate you seeing it through. I enjoyed the hat making process, and I love the finished product. Really looking forward to watching the reveal.
In which Lady Rebecca accidentally makes a perfectly serviceable fez. I was hoping, this whole time, that you would make a cockade, AND YOU DID! This came out very nice! Love your music choice at the end! YAY!! Stay well.
It looks amazing!!! I don't say this to say hahaha, but I am glad to see I am not the only person that gets burnt out on a project and loose interest and getting the last bit of give a shit to finish it. Thank you as always. Love what you do.
Nicely done. May I recommend the book "From the Neck Up". As a milliner it is one of my go to's on a regular basis. It has great techniques for buckram hats as well as straws, felts, and wire frame hats.
I’ve had a really great laugh! You REALLY don’t want to make this hat, do you? 😂 ‘I’ll just cover it with feathers’ phrase of the day, for me today... If I could do more than one 👍 I would!
I've recently acquired a family heirloom: a 1885 wedding dress! Watching your videos is really helping me envision what my great-great-grand parent (in-law?) would have looked like on her wedding day
Miss Rebecca. For future reference - instead of hand sewing the bias stripe band on the hat, since it will be removable, you could have wrapped it around with right side facing in and pinned the back seam. Then machine stitched the back seam. Then turned the band right side out and slid it onto the hat. Just saying. Lovely ensemble by the way. You did a fantastic job.
Thanks for showing the edge-melting on the polyester velvet, I have done it with many things but never considered doing it for fabric! And the iron surprised me, I'd have put the hat over my electric kettle :) Or maybe in the steamer basket in a stock pot... I'm used to making headwear out of metal, it's far less forgiving but the advantage is when it ticks you off you can smash it with a hammer. And an inside edge curve vs an outside edge curve is similar to your hatmaking, they get treated differently because they react differently depending on whether you're expanding or reducing although the cool thing is most of the time I don't need to cut crenellations, because you can stretch or shrink metal! :) ...and now I want to make a metal tophat, thank you.
My husband just came to see what I was doing, and we both waved goodbye to you. Thanks for another interesting vlog you work really hard to create these beautiful costumes.
Hi,sneak peak of your beautiful ensemble on the thumbnail image, I'm amazed at how you make making the hat look easy ,it's not I know I've tryed in the past ,and that was just a simply Easter bonnet. The dress is beautiful and now we have to wait ages,well till Saturday, to see you all regal in your dress. One day when you are not so busy could you do a deeper level of instructions on how to make a hat, please.
When I want to alter the shape of a straw hat, I put it in a tub of water and saturate it. When the straw is soft and wet I use bowls and/or a little bucket to shape it and then let it dry out.
Im sorry the hat part was so annoying for you, but it is one of my favorite things about your channel. I love that you make coordinating hats! Overall I think the project came out VERY well, good job! I cant wait to see it all together in the reveal!
Thank you for showing the steps of making this hat (it looks lovely by the way). Have been wondering how to make a hat. Also, I loved the addition of the braid on the cuffs.
So an easy way to make cockades is to just gather one end of the ribbon until it forms a circle shape! You can make the gathers as small or big as you want and it's SUPER easy! Otherwise I love this project and cant wait to see it done!
Time to go show off this dress. It's obvious that you need a vacation. I hope you get some time off. The dress turned out perfect in my opinion. Take a day or two off.
Tips for hats... (I'm a milliner). Wet straw - soak it in water, and it will soften it, even if it has stiffener in it. It also prevents it from cracking and splitting when you shape it. Just make sure if you're blocking it or using a former, you let it completely dry before taking it off, or it won't keep the shape. For the buckram hat - if you draw a circle on the buckram where the wire needs to be, and make sure it's *just* inside the line, you should be ok (use the wire loose, instead of making it into a loop first, which is technically the wrong way to do it, but it much easier than joining first). For the fabric covering, don't try to attach the fabric to the buckram and then sew together. Make up the tip and crown of the buckram. Then make up the tip and crown of the fabric layer separately. As long as you're careful with the measuring, you can get a perfect fit, and it's a lot easier. it also gives a cleaner, neater finish, because you can do the sewing by machine. Then you do the brim and finishing as you normally would. (You can also cover the brim in the same way, so you can skip the hand sewing, and get a clean edge, if you don't want a binding.)
Look at all that stripey goodness! I love it and I can't wait for the reveal! (idk if it's a theatre thing but I was taught to do spokes of millinery wire on the brim if it needs to curve, although it does definitely make it harder to the fabric smooth over it. I made a buckram hat with a pretty heavily curved brim in undergrad using that method and it's held up pretty well even after the roughly 400 years since.)
@@LadyRebeccaFashions You probably know this but you can also give the bottom edge of the crown a bit of a curve if you're wanting a top hat like curve. The other buckram hat I made was a Mad Hatter inspired top hat and I used that method for it. Memories are slowly filtering back in after 15 years and man I loved making buckram hats but I don't love wearing hats so I haven't done any in ages. (Cardinal costuming sin, not liking to wear hats. Oh, well.)
In more of your videos reminding me of previous Castles in the Air playtests: The first playtest had some INTENSE tiny hats vs. tall hats discourse. There were also some Veritable Maiden Aunts still wearing the 1830s fashions of their youth (from your previous videos, we seem to have very similar tastes in fashion eras) who were very scandalized by the new fashion of women wearing hats (like a man!) instead of bonnets.
I didn't have any buckram for the hat I just made for my Foundations Revealed entry, and I was trying to be super thrifty, so I used a Cheerios box! 😄 I glued the fabric to the pieces, then sewed everything together by hand and I have to say, I'm extremely happy with it!
I love this!! The whole outfit looks amazing. Makes me want to order all the stuff and start making hats!!! In stead I will go back to the latest batch of masks and toques (winter hat) I have on the table. Oh and I’m really looking forward to seeing you all decked out!!!
I wonder if the wire ends up too big at the top of the crown because the original pattern has a seam allowance on the top of the 'sides' buckram piece that makes it taller, and with the taper on the cone, makes the opening smaller. You would almost want separate pattern pieces for the buckram and fabric parts to make sure that the seam allowance was included or not included as needed for each part.
I totally have a scissors box full of scissors 😊 there's my 2 fabric scissors, paper/ string scissors, sharp detail scissors, "nice" all purpose scissors, 2 very crappy all purpose scissors that I let my husband use lol, 2 blunt tip kid scissors, and then my 6 super crappy pattern making scissors that my son and I make pretty designs in paper lol... oh and my rotary cutter and exacto knife...then there's the 2 scissors in the back of my mind to get someday......I just realized I might have a scissors problem 😂
@@WhimsyCourier LOL, that sounds like the scissor basket mom & I have. Except our 2 good fabric shears need to be sharpened so badly. Using my old paper scissors almost works better to cut for some fabrics now.
@@GiraffeLoverJen love the scissor basket 💛 I also have a basket problem lol! Yeah I totally get that. One of my fabric scissors are also in desperate need of sharpening. Lol yeah it's pretty bad when the paper scissors cut better
@@LadyRebeccaFashions neat! I guess that would work fine for something that won't get washed much, if ever. Doesn't it get sticky though? I remember dying my hair with koolaid in the 90s and it was not a nice texture
a ladies bowler hat would look beautiful you can have both the one you made and then make a red one but a ladies bowler its just smaller version of a mans bowler hat decorated please make one it would be so beautiful
Do you have any suggestions about getting the shape of the crown to properly fit your head? I notice your ovals look perfect. For example, the base of the crown where the brim meets the crown (headband) ? Even with a template I can not get the base to fit properly..
Where did you find the fashion plate you based your dress on? A book, Pinterest, or online resource. I just bought 17 3/4 yards of 60” stripy fabric to make my own bustle dress. I need to find inspiration dresses that are Historically accurate that use stripe patterns to their best effect!
I found this one (and most of my inspiration plates) on pinterest. I just generally do searches for things like "bustle dress" etc, but this is a fantastic board with all kinds of stripey dresses: www.pinterest.com/victoriankat/striped-dresses/
@@LadyRebeccaFashions yeah, that's judt how it goes sometimes 😔 But it's still an amazing garment you've made. I could never! Nor would I ever have that kind of patience 😁
Seriously though. Or even more than that, depending on the project. (like my velvet ribbon dress from last year that wound up taking 5-6x what I originally estimated)
So did you know that "ensemble" means together in French? When you said "I am not gonna show you the whole ensemble together?" I did a little chuckle. P.S. My first language is French.
+LadyRebeccaFashions *How many days' wear out of a nail paint job?* I see that the shade blends well with the red portion of the peppermint striping; but modeling the bustle dress indicates a re-paint. I have considered and rejected the false-nail option, as Vintage Doll® Round Rita Nails (promoted by our fellow RU-vidr +LauraMitbrodt) will interfere with the gloves.
This is true, but clip on earrings dont give me infections in my earlobes like getting them pierced did. My ears just do not take piercing well at all. So they must suffer the consequences. (Screwback earrings, on the other hand, are the most comfortable things on the planet, and i have to keep touching them to check that they are still on)
