Hi,
Thanks for your thoaghts, well you are probably right, its because she dont have a wig and her own hair is very thin and smooth, so its difficult to make something with it.

The only thing i am changing with the original design, is making a stomacher in stead of a compare, its easyer to fit it to her size this way. Also what i said about the cape that i probably not have time for it, is not entirely true, only i dont have a pattern for one, and i have never made any before.
Thanks for your thoaghts.....

Bjarne

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    If she is the only one dressed in 18thC, then it's more of a costume
and the indoor/outdoor thing does not matter so much.

    I'm not sure if there are different "rules" that go with a compere
front gown.  You don't often have buttons as the closure on women's
clothing except for riding habits, which are a masculine style.
Since the compere has buttons, the rules may change.  You would need
to look at pictures of that style gown, which it sounds like you are
out of time to do!

    Usually a cap is worn underneath a hat.  Then there is a dressed
hairstyle that has feathers, ribbons, etc - no hat or cap.  But
again, does it go with the compere gown?

    And does that matter to 21stC people attending an exhibit opening?

    -Carol


Hi,
I am in the middle of finishing the red taffeta dress and i am also making
a hat to go with the dress, large brim, low crown.
Now i just heard that the girl i am making it for is going to open an
exhibition at Gammel Estrup about table settings for tea and coffe, trough the ages. Its june 10th, just the day before i travel on holliday to Italy.
http://www.gammelestrup.dk/
Now i wished i had made her a cap, but i dont think i wil have the time
for that.
Wil she be able to wear the hat indoors, or wil it look strange?
http://www.my-drewscostumes.dk/sofie3.htm


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