Nelly also has a new dress!
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Feeling princess-y. |
Looking forward towards the end of Victoria's reign, I wanted this dress to appear suitable for c.1901, while providing a strong contrast to both Harriet's new c.1837 look and to the two dolls' usual late 1850s attire. To that end, I decided to give her a princess-seamed dress (no waist seam or separate skirt treatment), which was in use at that period, though it wasn't the only style. The skirt is thus shaped by goring, unlike the gathered rectangles used in their other dresses. While large puffed sleeves were popular near the end of the 1890s, they did start slimming down again getting into the 1900s, so I gave Nelly's dress narrow coat sleeves. It also has a standing, self-fabric collar (which made me confront just so short her neck is), and a ribbon trim simulating a yoke. To make the tiny collar delicate enough, it's cut on the selvedge of the fabric. At some point, she will need a gored petticoat to give this dress the proper silhouette.
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