It's very interesting that so many pieces were made separately, it's useful to remember that "back in the day" dressmaking used lots of different professionals to make one garment and how impressive it is that Nicole has the skills of all of them!!
Well, a bunch of those professionals' skills overlap, they were just specialized in their fields because the economy supported the existence of said specialized fields. Not to take away from Nicole, just to not underestimate those professionals of past 😘
I'm just picturing you walking down a dark foggy street in Paris wearing this, with black elbow length gloves and a frilly black umbrella. And scaring the bejeezus out of some poor passerby, thinking they just had a supernatural encounter.
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I can see her wandering around the older, Bytown areas, of Ottawa. Actually, a few years back, as part of one of the indi festivals, a local actress played a Victorian lady who toured the ghost locations in the city. It was a wonderful effect. Now we have haunted walks. Could you imagine walking by a group of women, out on the town, dressed like this on a foggy night? - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
@@stevezytveld6585 I also think that someone should dress as Glenn Gould and his mother, (just think, she could have worn a dress like this, as she was in her 20's in 1914.) We have a Victorian night in our local town, and I hope to get a group of ladies in Edwardian fashion out someday for it. We might make the Victorians look a little dowdy and old fashioned with our smart 1914 fashions lol.
Well I'll be damned if this outfit didn't improve my night vision and made my canine teeth grow. YOU LOOK SO BLOODY GOOD IN THIS!!!!! (and the skills you showed us on the road to getting here are +++++. Extra blood bag points for elegant wrist movement when you showed us the final ensemble).
@@caithemburrow5569 This is technically "whitework" (blackwork and whitework got their names based on the assumption that they were done on white fabric), but I agree that there's something _extra_ when it's in black.
I didn’t know skirts had already gone up so high at the end of the 19-teens. I was under the impression that it was only in the 20s that skirts started to go above the ankles. Now i’m curious about fashion in the last five years of the 19-teens. Hope you can go more in-depth on this period in a future video.
WWI was happening and many women started working in male dominated jobs to replace those called up. They started running hospitals and convalescent homes. They worked on farms and in factories and drove trucks and ambulances.
My mum has a photo of my great grandparents taken around 1915 and I am going to be analysing their outfits like crazy next time I see it. Although they wouldn't have been able to afford anything as up to the minute as this.
Absolutely - there is a spectacular photo of my grandmother at 17 in 1919 and her skirt is mid calf. Even tho she is a country girl from rural Australia.
My great grandparents married in 1919 and mommaw's dress was mid calf. It has a large peplum type overskirt which falls right at her hands, so around mid thigh or so. I'm not sure what color it was, but it's fairly dark in the photo. There is some floral embroidery, mostly looks to be tone on tone, at the shoulders and a basic sash belt and slender, full length sleeves.
It looks better than I even imagined! I love the draping of the skirt. It’s one of those incredible pieces that you notice something new every time you see it. Incredible job!! My 20 year old gothic self swooned at the reveal and desperately wants to be a 1914 femme fatale.
--insert grovelling in the style of Pain and Panic from Hercules This is everything my teenage death metal princess self would have wanted to make, had I been able to do it back then. I adore it, and you're AMAZING. I’m still getting over the shoes. Aforementioned teenage self is now clamouring at adult me to abandon all current projects to do something like this even though I still don't have the skills lol
Oh Nicole, you can’t see me but I am on my knees bowing down to your talent, patience and skill in recreating this ensemble. You look lovely in it and I know it feels wonderful having that silk charmeuse next to your skin (that’s what I make slips and nightgowns from). The weights in the jacket are reminiscent of the chains in Mme Chanel’s jackets so I know it hangs perfectly. Enough of my drooling, I’m going to watch the whole thing again.
Seeing the garments on a body instead of the original flat on a table makes me understand why you and Abby were so intrigued with it and it's construction. You've done a fantastic job on this and all the accessories. I'm in awe!
"Put together by hand"...words to make my heart sing, being a slow poke hand sewer. This was already my favorite era...this garment is officialy my OBSESSION!
If you liked the golden thread, I can highly recommend basically every book by Elizabeth Wayland Barber! She is extremely knowledgeable in the textile field :)
So many of the people I watch listen to audiobooks. Meanwhile, while I'm sewing/knitting/crocheting/gardening I'm listening to you (the collective you).
The detailing on this outfit is astonishing. I've not seen the rest of this series, so I was kind of shocked to see that it is all hand-embroidery. It is like something out of Edward Gory. Wonderful.
It makes you wonder if people are going to analyze our fashion and trends in 150 years. Those mom jeans, middle parts and cropped shirts. This piece is stunning.
All I can say is just... wow! I really didn't think it was going to be as dramatic of an ensemble when you started, after seeing the original on the mannequin on Abby's channel. I am more than pleasantly surprised, I am stunned! The entirety of it worn all together is beautiful, and you certainly deserve to take your bow as a maker.
You must have had EXCELLENT lighting and great eyesight for this INCREDIBLE job. I'm just flabbergasted by all the work out into this. You're so talented, Nicole!
Well, I feel like I should just give up sewing now. I. Can’t. Even. I said last week the shoes were the most magnificent shoes I’ve ever seen. They are. The hat was awe-inspiring. The effort and details put into this beautifully embroidered gown - absolutely exquisite! You look like you stepped straight out of the Tardis after attending a very posh affair dressed in your glamorous finery. Brava! 🖤🖤
I spent most of the video wondering how long it took you just to find the just materials and finishings, let alone even beginning to pattern and make each and every component. I am utterly in awe.
Holy crow! Nicole could have built a house with all the time, effort, skill & care she used to re create this ensemble! Consider my jaw dropped, young lady.
1910's seems like someone got super bored with the usual fashion of earlier times. Also that black on black embroidery is hnnnnngh. There's something about black embroidery on black fabric that makes it so beautiful. Also, my guess for getting the look of this piece would be pattern, embroidery, construction. It's just a thought but it would make a lot of sense.
I love everything about the process and the final product (the detail!) but I think I'm even more here for the mysterious music that hints we are getting near the end, and how you present the outfit in the end. This is such cinematographic delight to watch!
Oh wow!!! It's absolutely gorgeous! 😍 It needs white half-length gloves and an umbrella or parasol with the perhaps the barest fringe at the edge. Well done indeed!!!
I think that Erte was the one who inspired so much of the change in the 1910's. I remember trying to copy his drawings into costumes as early as 16. I love this decade. This is amazing work--thanks for sharing!
Yeah, I am not much of a sewer and in a totally different area career-wise, but I watch your videos religously, because they are absolutely amazing. Your delivery is so professional, calm, beautiful and elegant and you have so much knowledge... You are the best kind of youtube there is.
Those two dresses belong in a museum together. One with an applied school of dress history / slash / conservation attached to it. There's enough history tied up into that one garment to be a dissertation piece. You must know some conservators and acquisition directors by now... Beautiful work. As always. And as always I'm barely keeping up. But I'm encouraged that I can kinda keep up with the procedural steps. As always, thanks. - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown {by-the-by, I've got a Beginner FR entry under my full name, Cathy MacDonald-Zytveld, I'd love a fitting critique, because it's not quite there...}
Such a gorgeous outfit! A touch of spidery lace to the hat as a veil would be a spooky edition to compliment the witchy look and add a bit of mystery. Beautiful, scary and delightful.
Such a stunning ensemble. To my mind, your gown is far superior construction/material/needlework wise than the original. I see Japanese kimono influences in the drape, overall design, wide sash & the Japanese character type motif in the waist embroidery. The dramatic collar being the exception of course! I recommend to everyone to slow the video speed down to 25 percent to get the full benefit of the garment detail during Nicole's elegant modelling.
I love that you and Abby have been showing us these amazing antique garments and giving such a thorough run down of the construction techniques used to make them. I've never had the opportunity to look at the interiors of extant historical garments, so without your videos and recreations I would never have known just how chaotic and wild some of these pieces can be on the inside. I had always been told that the inside of your garment or the back of your embroidery should be as neat and perfectly finished as the face, that that's the mark of true skill and quality, so I just assumed that the interiors of these beautiful historical pieces would be just as beautiful as the outside. It's delightful seeing how chaotic they can actually be, and it makes a lot of sense, given how expensive textiles were, to reduce waste and use what you had on hand for piecing and reinforcement and structure. Why not re-use the muslin you'd previously used for a toile? I think this is an attitude that sewists would really benefit from re-adopting, I know I'm certainly going to try to become comfortable with piecing even though it's so contrary to how I had been raised to make clothes.
Stunning. And, the way the skirt moves... lovely. That is incredibly beautiful! Find myself wistfully wishing it could star in a short film, bit of walking... thinking misty London alleys, glowing gas lanterns... such a setting is a bit much to hope for, but... that skirt is a masterpiece of design in the way she moves and flows. Truly lovely. Well done!!!
Squeeeee! Finally we can see all the cool details and the whole ensemble in all its asymmetrical, sculptural radness (in HD instead of on scratchy century-old film, to boot)! Also, I finally get an answer to my decades-old question "what would the women who lived in Frank Lloyd Wright's early Prairie Style houses wear?" which is something I wondered for YEARS after seeing that he was doing such crazy-progressive houses in the early 1900s. I just couldn't imagine them inhabited by women tightlaced in wasp-waisted or bustled gowns! This was amazing project from tip to toe. Nicole, you are a flipping beast of talents!!!!
The luxury of that outfit... like. Thinking about whoever wore the original got me daydreaming about excess wealth. Using the floral ikat silk as a *lining* was a power move, truly a display of opulence and tackiness never seen before or since. Stunning.
What I think your videos make extremely clear is the importance of practical research. I am artist/researcher and the conversation about artistic research (thinking through making) is a conversation/debate. But, you make it clear. You can not know unless you do. This is thinking through making! Thank you, so cool :)
My three year old daughter watched this with me, and when you did the big reveal, she reverently whispered, "It's Beautiful. I love that dress" as she watched you turn around. I have to agree. It turned out absolutely stunning!
With accessory changes and the substitution of a lace cami I would wear that outfit to any party (once having parties becomes an option again). Full disclosure, I am a total child when it comes to a jacquard pattern (especially in a neutral color) grabbing at it (again when I was not in quarantine) whenever I discovered it, virtually or in actuality at a thrift shop. Beautiful result along with an honorable tribute to its ancestor!
I might be a little late to the party for this kind of feedback, but I wanted to let you know that, while the close-up shots are super cool, sometimes they're so close up that it's hard to tell which part of the garment you're working on. The voice over does a little bit to help with that, but especially with a garment like this, with a lot of moving parts, I couldn't quite tell which parts were being attached to which, and what embroidery was going where. I don't know if wide shots are possible, and I understand if your film space has limitations that don't allow for them, but they'd really help in explaining how things go together. I still love your videos, and I'll be watching them still in the future. Just figured you'd want to know what people wanna see more of. If they're possible, more wide shots please!
D-I-V-I-N-E!!!!!!!! I remember seeing the Original Garment and swooned ..I would so wear this Beauty !! BRAVO!!!!! I adore the lining too ! As someone who does not sew I am in AWE!!! (especially as You even use bent pins! heehee) Blessings to You for sharing this with us mere Mortals xxx
This is the most fabulously extra ensemble and it suits you so well! I am deeply impressed by your skill and attention to detail. I'm so glad most of the lining in the original garment was missing so you could get so many bits of construction information, because your finished reproduction is *chef's kiss*.
Extraordinary! I would like you to have made the end segment of you in the outfit a little longer. It was to quick to savor the completed masterpiece. Bravo!
Wow, this really does just lay in what looks like the most effortless looking drapiness. This replica is stunning. Well done. Thank you for your hard work and for sharing.
Wow-- that was a lot! The draping on the skirt was really beautiful. I'm glad you knew what you were doing, because I was pretty lost for most of it. I really like this era of clothing, I think it went by too fast to have modern people aware of it. Maybe somebody in haute couture will do a revival, and we will see our pop stars wearing it to award shows. So lovely, thank you!
Me... "How much would it cost to have this dress made for me." Followed by, "Down girl, your house needs new windows." I'm awestruck at the talent and skills you have!
My brain immediately went to "this would make a phenomenal murder mystery dinner outfit". So striking!
For the widow that is surely innocent!
It's very interesting that so many pieces were made separately, it's useful to remember that "back in the day" dressmaking used lots of different professionals to make one garment and how impressive it is that Nicole has the skills of all of them!!
Well, a bunch of those professionals' skills overlap, they were just specialized in their fields because the economy supported the existence of said specialized fields. Not to take away from Nicole, just to not underestimate those professionals of past 😘
I'm just picturing you walking down a dark foggy street in Paris wearing this, with black elbow length gloves and a frilly black umbrella.
And scaring the bejeezus out of some poor passerby, thinking they just had a supernatural encounter.
Yes!
Either than or were experiencing a time slip!
😂
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Imagine being able to just wander around a ocean liner in the 1910s wearing an outfit like that.
Omg, yeeeeesssss. Someone get this woman to Titanic 2.
You mean before you freeze/drown?
I can see her wandering around the older, Bytown areas, of Ottawa.
Actually, a few years back, as part of one of the indi festivals, a local actress played a Victorian lady who toured the ghost locations in the city. It was a wonderful effect.
Now we have haunted walks. Could you imagine walking by a group of women, out on the town, dressed like this on a foggy night?
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
@@stevezytveld6585 I wonder if anyone took photos? Those would be memorable, and I would like to see photos of that part of Ottawa anyway.
@@stevezytveld6585 I also think that someone should dress as Glenn Gould and his mother, (just think, she could have worn a dress like this, as she was in her 20's in 1914.) We have a Victorian night in our local town, and I hope to get a group of ladies in Edwardian fashion out someday for it. We might make the Victorians look a little dowdy and old fashioned with our smart 1914 fashions lol.
Well I'll be damned if this outfit didn't improve my night vision and made my canine teeth grow. YOU LOOK SO BLOODY GOOD IN THIS!!!!! (and the skills you showed us on the road to getting here are +++++. Extra blood bag points for elegant wrist movement when you showed us the final ensemble).
Lol :D
That black on black embroidery though...
There's no other color that seems to have that same effect. I think that's why it's my favorite color!
I really like white work as well but I do agree that black looks amazing
@@caithemburrow5569
This is technically "whitework" (blackwork and whitework got their names based on the assumption that they were done on white fabric), but I agree that there's something _extra_ when it's in black.
Gosh, the level of detail you put into such an accurate reproduction just blows me away!
Nicole, you are pure genius, what a level of craftsmanship skills.
I can’t tell you how much I am obsessed with this witchy Edwardian ensemble. I think you’re the absolute coolest and I’m so glad I found your channel
Every single time, starting a sewing project I think will be easy: "Pfft, this'll take LITERALLY five minutes."
Three hours later: "..."
I’m on my fourth week of an 1890s undergarment project I thought would take a single weekend 😂💀
Same💀 designed my own skirt and thought it'd be finished in two weeks (pattern+mockups+production)... it's been a month.
I didn’t know skirts had already gone up so high at the end of the 19-teens. I was under the impression that it was only in the 20s that skirts started to go above the ankles. Now i’m curious about fashion in the last five years of the 19-teens. Hope you can go more in-depth on this period in a future video.
WWI was happening and many women started working in male dominated jobs to replace those called up. They started running hospitals and convalescent homes. They worked on farms and in factories and drove trucks and ambulances.
My mum has a photo of my great grandparents taken around 1915 and I am going to be analysing their outfits like crazy next time I see it. Although they wouldn't have been able to afford anything as up to the minute as this.
Absolutely - there is a spectacular photo of my grandmother at 17 in 1919 and her skirt is mid calf. Even tho she is a country girl from rural Australia.
My great grandparents married in 1919 and mommaw's dress was mid calf. It has a large peplum type overskirt which falls right at her hands, so around mid thigh or so. I'm not sure what color it was, but it's fairly dark in the photo. There is some floral embroidery, mostly looks to be tone on tone, at the shoulders and a basic sash belt and slender, full length sleeves.
It looks better than I even imagined! I love the draping of the skirt. It’s one of those incredible pieces that you notice something new every time you see it. Incredible job!! My 20 year old gothic self swooned at the reveal and desperately wants to be a 1914 femme fatale.
The skirt is wonderful. Love one of those.
The way you say "hello, everyone and welcome" makes me want to tell you all my secrets. Every. Single. Time.
It is bewitching, isn't it!!!
@@Majmysza Utterly. Bewitching exactly describes Nicole, her voice, and that outfit.
OMG its the witchcore dress, its the actual witchcore dress!! and thats the Vestee... its YOU! *subscribes*
--insert grovelling in the style of Pain and Panic from Hercules
This is everything my teenage death metal princess self would have wanted to make, had I been able to do it back then. I adore it, and you're AMAZING. I’m still getting over the shoes. Aforementioned teenage self is now clamouring at adult me to abandon all current projects to do something like this even though I still don't have the skills lol
Oh Nicole, you can’t see me but I am on my knees bowing down to your talent, patience and skill in recreating this ensemble. You look lovely in it and I know it feels wonderful having that silk charmeuse next to your skin (that’s what I make slips and nightgowns from). The weights in the jacket are reminiscent of the chains in Mme Chanel’s jackets so I know it hangs perfectly. Enough of my drooling, I’m going to watch the whole thing again.
A tribute to the 1910's makers.
::snaps fan open and flutters it vigorously:: Oh my!! How dashing!!
Seeing the garments on a body instead of the original flat on a table makes me understand why you and Abby were so intrigued with it and it's construction. You've done a fantastic job on this and all the accessories. I'm in awe!
We need to see these pieces again individually and in bright light so we can be more awestruck by the details, form and movement.
When she turns and you see all the draping on the skirt 😍
"Put together by hand"...words to make my heart sing, being a slow poke hand sewer. This was already my favorite era...this garment is officialy my OBSESSION!
Awesome, my grandmother was a teenager in that era ... :) she had a coupla stories for me.
Hi crone
If you liked the golden thread, I can highly recommend basically every book by Elizabeth Wayland Barber! She is extremely knowledgeable in the textile field :)
I've got my favorite book of hers recommend in the description! Though I have others as well. Definitely a staple in grad school!
So many of the people I watch listen to audiobooks. Meanwhile, while I'm sewing/knitting/crocheting/gardening I'm listening to you (the collective you).
Me too
The detailing on this outfit is astonishing. I've not seen the rest of this series, so I was kind of shocked to see that it is all hand-embroidery. It is like something out of Edward Gory. Wonderful.
You look like someone out of an Edward Gorey picture. It’s fabulous and I love it. Thank you for sharing all the sewing secrets that went into it.
It makes you wonder if people are going to analyze our fashion and trends in 150 years. Those mom jeans, middle parts and cropped shirts. This piece is stunning.
This turned out absolutely gorgeous!! It’s really something to see the recreated dress in motion on a real body
It looks completely different even compared to being on a stand!
This gives me a very strong Morticia Addams vibe and I'm loving it. Great job Nicole, well done.
All I can say is just... wow!
I really didn't think it was going to be as dramatic of an ensemble when you started, after seeing the original on the mannequin on Abby's channel.
I am more than pleasantly surprised, I am stunned! The entirety of it worn all together is beautiful, and you certainly deserve to take your bow as a maker.
You must have had EXCELLENT lighting and great eyesight for this INCREDIBLE job. I'm just flabbergasted by all the work out into this. You're so talented, Nicole!
That dress looks like it belongs in the opening credits for MasterPiece Theater.
I was sure that Christine McConnell was going to knock on the door and ask to borrow the dress.
Well, I feel like I should just give up sewing now. I. Can’t. Even. I said last week the shoes were the most magnificent shoes I’ve ever seen. They are. The hat was awe-inspiring. The effort and details put into this beautifully embroidered gown - absolutely exquisite! You look like you stepped straight out of the Tardis after attending a very posh affair dressed in your glamorous finery. Brava! 🖤🖤
I spent most of the video wondering how long it took you just to find the just materials and finishings, let alone even beginning to pattern and make each and every component. I am utterly in awe.
Holy crow! Nicole could have built a house with all the time, effort, skill & care she used to re create this ensemble! Consider my jaw dropped, young lady.
Total Wicked Witch of the West vibes and I love it
1910's seems like someone got super bored with the usual fashion of earlier times.
Also that black on black embroidery is hnnnnngh. There's something about black embroidery on black fabric that makes it so beautiful. Also, my guess for getting the look of this piece would be pattern, embroidery, construction. It's just a thought but it would make a lot of sense.
This channel is SOO informative, you are MAD talented ! 🖤🕸
I love everything about the process and the final product (the detail!) but I think I'm even more here for the mysterious music that hints we are getting near the end, and how you present the outfit in the end. This is such cinematographic delight to watch!
It sounds like it was meant to be a costume. The reuse, the resizing, etc. It truly sounds like what you run into in traditional costumierre garments.
THINGS WERE SO WELL MADE LONG AGO, I HAVE A FEW, VERY FEW PIECES OF THINGS AND ACCESSORIES MADE LONG AGO!!!!! I LOVE THINGS LIKE THIS!!!!!!
Oh wow!!! It's absolutely gorgeous! 😍 It needs white half-length gloves and an umbrella or parasol with the perhaps the barest fringe at the edge. Well done indeed!!!
I have been sewing for over 40 years, nothing about this highly detailed piece looked easy. Beautifully Done ✨
I think that Erte was the one who inspired so much of the change in the 1910's. I remember trying to copy his drawings into costumes as early as 16. I love this decade. This is amazing work--thanks for sharing!
The whole ensemble together is just breathtaking. Magnificent. I aspire to half your skills.
Bravo! I have been waiting since Abbey's unboxing of this garment. Thank you Nicole, for warming my dark Edwardian soul.
This outfit is peak Edward Gorey...The final product was breathtaking.
What a BEAUTIFUL dress and full ensemble WOW
Yeah, I am not much of a sewer and in a totally different area career-wise, but I watch your videos religously, because they are absolutely amazing. Your delivery is so professional, calm, beautiful and elegant and you have so much knowledge... You are the best kind of youtube there is.
The draping creates lines that make me think of Turkish style pants, or an Eastern influence of some kind. The dress is enchanting!
I adore fashion of 1914! Beautiful dress and you look great in it!
Can’t wait to see the blogs when you wear this outfit: Costume College? Dandy’s Cruise, Halloween?
Seeing the full length: Wow! That skirt really does have a lot going on!
Impressive recreation!
Those two dresses belong in a museum together. One with an applied school of dress history / slash / conservation attached to it. There's enough history tied up into that one garment to be a dissertation piece. You must know some conservators and acquisition directors by now...
Beautiful work. As always. And as always I'm barely keeping up. But I'm encouraged that I can kinda keep up with the procedural steps. As always, thanks.
- Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown
{by-the-by, I've got a Beginner FR entry under my full name, Cathy MacDonald-Zytveld, I'd love a fitting critique, because it's not quite there...}
I love the intro to this. Myself, am specifically partial to 1915... and 1917
Such a gorgeous outfit! A touch of spidery lace to the hat as a veil would be a spooky edition to compliment the witchy look and add a bit of mystery. Beautiful, scary and delightful.
Such a stunning ensemble. To my mind, your gown is far superior construction/material/needlework wise than the original. I see Japanese kimono influences in the drape, overall design, wide sash & the Japanese character type motif in the waist embroidery. The dramatic collar being the exception of course! I recommend to everyone to slow the video speed down to 25 percent to get the full benefit of the garment detail during Nicole's elegant modelling.
I love that you and Abby have been showing us these amazing antique garments and giving such a thorough run down of the construction techniques used to make them. I've never had the opportunity to look at the interiors of extant historical garments, so without your videos and recreations I would never have known just how chaotic and wild some of these pieces can be on the inside. I had always been told that the inside of your garment or the back of your embroidery should be as neat and perfectly finished as the face, that that's the mark of true skill and quality, so I just assumed that the interiors of these beautiful historical pieces would be just as beautiful as the outside.
It's delightful seeing how chaotic they can actually be, and it makes a lot of sense, given how expensive textiles were, to reduce waste and use what you had on hand for piecing and reinforcement and structure. Why not re-use the muslin you'd previously used for a toile? I think this is an attitude that sewists would really benefit from re-adopting, I know I'm certainly going to try to become comfortable with piecing even though it's so contrary to how I had been raised to make clothes.
I paused this video to immediately downloaded Golden Thread, thanks for the suggestion! The ensemble turned out amazing!!!
I just looked and can’t find it... I guess I will have to add it to my list of books to find
I did the same!
Oh wow that reveal... Nicole serving 1914s vampire chic *chef's kiss*
Stunning. And, the way the skirt moves... lovely. That is incredibly beautiful! Find myself wistfully wishing it could star in a short film, bit of walking... thinking misty London alleys, glowing gas lanterns... such a setting is a bit much to hope for, but... that skirt is a masterpiece of design in the way she moves and flows. Truly lovely. Well done!!!
I can’t get over how much difference the padding in the shoulder made. It really matters.
I’m so here for this!
Squeeeee! Finally we can see all the cool details and the whole ensemble in all its asymmetrical, sculptural radness (in HD instead of on scratchy century-old film, to boot)!
Also, I finally get an answer to my decades-old question "what would the women who lived in Frank Lloyd Wright's early Prairie Style houses wear?" which is something I wondered for YEARS after seeing that he was doing such crazy-progressive houses in the early 1900s. I just couldn't imagine them inhabited by women tightlaced in wasp-waisted or bustled gowns! This was amazing project from tip to toe. Nicole, you are a flipping beast of talents!!!!
The luxury of that outfit... like. Thinking about whoever wore the original got me daydreaming about excess wealth. Using the floral ikat silk as a *lining* was a power move, truly a display of opulence and tackiness never seen before or since. Stunning.
This witch definitely had the best box at the theater ^_^
An absolutely Beautiful job! Congratulations ... !
💥 You've Nailed It.
What I think your videos make extremely clear is the importance of practical research. I am artist/researcher and the conversation about artistic research (thinking through making) is a conversation/debate. But, you make it clear. You can not know unless you do. This is thinking through making! Thank you, so cool :)
What an absolutely beautiful garment!
My three year old daughter watched this with me, and when you did the big reveal, she reverently whispered, "It's Beautiful. I love that dress" as she watched you turn around. I have to agree. It turned out absolutely stunning!
And they all clapped
This is so nice, because it was hard to picture what the original garment would have looked like worn, but now we get to see it in motion on a body!
What a masterpiece Nicole. Your attention to detail is impeccable. Absolutely gorgeous!
With accessory changes and the substitution of a lace cami I would wear that outfit to any party (once having parties becomes an option again). Full disclosure, I am a total child when it comes to a jacquard pattern (especially in a neutral color) grabbing at it (again when I was not in quarantine) whenever I discovered it, virtually or in actuality at a thrift shop. Beautiful result along with an honorable tribute to its ancestor!
LOVE THE SKIRT!! Acturally, i love everything about this outfit, but that skirt is amazing...
Beautiful garment, love the detailing and the line. Having it built over muslin is lovely. Stiff soft, luscious and light.
Exquisite! Hat to shoes just phenomenal!
All the wonderfull embroidery! So impressed with the whole dress. Well done you and thank you for sharing all your hard work with us!
Your craftmanship is amazing, the whole ensemble is just beutiful. I love seeing reproductions made after original pieces! Great work!
Such a beautiful piece! Absolutely obsessed with it!
Incredible Nicole!! You totally just walked right out of a fashion plate. Beautiful job.
You have outdone yourself with this beautiful recreation creation! Bravo!
I might be a little late to the party for this kind of feedback, but I wanted to let you know that, while the close-up shots are super cool, sometimes they're so close up that it's hard to tell which part of the garment you're working on. The voice over does a little bit to help with that, but especially with a garment like this, with a lot of moving parts, I couldn't quite tell which parts were being attached to which, and what embroidery was going where. I don't know if wide shots are possible, and I understand if your film space has limitations that don't allow for them, but they'd really help in explaining how things go together.
I still love your videos, and I'll be watching them still in the future. Just figured you'd want to know what people wanna see more of. If they're possible, more wide shots please!
D-I-V-I-N-E!!!!!!!! I remember seeing the Original Garment and swooned ..I would so wear this Beauty !! BRAVO!!!!! I adore the lining too ! As someone who does not sew I am in AWE!!! (especially as You even use bent pins! heehee) Blessings to You for sharing this with us mere Mortals xxx
This is the most fabulously extra ensemble and it suits you so well! I am deeply impressed by your skill and attention to detail. I'm so glad most of the lining in the original garment was missing so you could get so many bits of construction information, because your finished reproduction is *chef's kiss*.
I love the fact that older garments left so much room for alteration.
An amazing dress and the shoes look absolutely perfect with it. The hat is the cherry on top. Beautiful!!!!
Holy wow... what a stunning final result. Amazing work Nicole, your talents and skills are truly inspiring.
Your workmanship is gorgeous. I also wish that I had you as my home ec teacher so many years ago.
Extraordinary! I would like you to have made the end segment of you in the outfit a little longer. It was to quick to savor the completed masterpiece. Bravo!
Just stunning. Inadequate words to express my admiration of the whole research and construction process...but the final look is perfection 😍
Wow, this really does just lay in what looks like the most effortless looking drapiness. This replica is stunning. Well done. Thank you for your hard work and for sharing.
You should do a pattern book!!!!! Gorgeous!!!!!!!!! And please more pictures of it. So gorgeous. Black is hard to see. Hope outside and well lit.
Oh I can’t wait until you and Abby start selling patterns!
Wow, all the embroidery is fabulous, as is the whole gown. The white socks are a hoot ...:)
Stunning work! It looks like you snatched it right out of a fashion plate! 🤩
Wow-- that was a lot! The draping on the skirt was really beautiful. I'm glad you knew what you were doing, because I was pretty lost for most of it. I really like this era of clothing, I think it went by too fast to have modern people aware of it. Maybe somebody in haute couture will do a revival, and we will see our pop stars wearing it to award shows. So lovely, thank you!
Me... "How much would it cost to have this dress made for me." Followed by, "Down girl, your house needs new windows." I'm awestruck at the talent and skills you have!
So much detail! It’s beautifully done 😊 thank you for sharing
God I LOVE it! I'm stitching a 1912 races dress from La Mode aux Courses while listening to all of your videos, and I'm enjoying every second of it ❤
Full body chills at the reveal!