The project that I am the most excited about at the moment is my gala dress. After changing my mind a million times, I finally decided to go for something totally random and different. I'm going to make a Victorian fancy dress costume inspired by the telegraph! Is it genius? Madness? Only time will tell! LOL!
Anyway, my plan is to make a pretty close copy of this 1884 illustration from the de Gracieuse archive (it was also found in Harper's Bazar). The only thing that I'm going to change is to omit the silly glass insulator headdress and make a tiara out of tiny telegraph poles instead. I think it'll be a ton of fun to make, and I'm hoping that I can wear it again at future steampunk events as well. It will probably be a few weeks before I get started on this dress in ernest, but I'm having a ball doing all the research and getting the materials right now.
And just for the heck of it, I saved all the fancy dress pictures that I found from de Gracieuse and put them in a flickr set. I hope to continue adding more examples to this set as I find them.
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Have fun with this! I'm glad you found something to inspire you -- it'll be a blast seeing the progress and how the finished gown turns out. :D
I saw you in your fabulous telegraph gown at Costume College! Can you put up photos of the finished product? It was very impressive!
--Debra Alderman, Seattle
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Costume College sounds like an absolute blast! I totally get wanting to make a few new pieces, especially something over-the-top for the gala. A Victorian telegraph-inspired dress is such a wonderfully unique idea – definitely leaning towards genius! And ditching the glass insulator for tiny telegraph pole tiara? Brilliant. I can already picture you as a super chic Snow rider from that era. Have fun with all the research and creation!
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