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fashionsfromhistory · 11 months
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Ensemble
c.1815-1825
Palais Galliera
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daguerreotyping · 8 months
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Fashion plate of a redingote (frock coat) design featuring big bold lapels and a slutty waistcoat window, La Mode, c. 1820s
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clove-pinks · 7 months
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Fashion plate detail: Winter 1840.
The man on the extreme left wears a frock coat and top hat suitable for daywear while his companion is dressed in formal evening wear: tailcoat, white cravat, and Brandenberg coat worn over the shoulders like a cape. He carries a chapeau bras.
Historic Textile and Costume Collection, the University of Rhode Island.
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silverfoxstole · 8 months
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It’s done!
After ten days of work (and another three for a waistcoat I’m not that happy with; see below), the NotD coat is finished! Woohoo!
Overall, I’m really pleased with it, which is just as well as it’s taken so much time (and grief!). I worked out that if I’d paid myself minimum wage for all the hours I put in the labour alone would amount to about £500. One of my ex colleagues used to suggest I set up a dressmaking business and wouldn’t believe me when I told her it wouldn’t be cost effective as the amount of labour involved would make everything too expensive.
Anyway, I have taken quite a lot of photos, so you can see how it turned out:
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This got long so I’ll stick the rest behind a cut.
I ended up adding some extra fabric to the tails, as they were sticking out at an angle and didn’t look right. It means an extra seam but it’s not that visible and I much prefer it this way, with more fullness at the back (and it properly covers my bum, which is very important!):
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Though it looks fine on the dummy when I put it on I’m not convinced I didn’t raise the back waist seam a bit too far, but it’s sitting on my waist so… *shrugs* I don’t often look at myself from behind so it probably doesn’t matter that much.
After sewing on the two back buttons I changed my mind and went with the covered ones in the end, deciding on reflection that those I bought last week were a bit too pale. They would have fitted better if I’d made the binding more of a contrast (which I’m glad I didn’t as it would have been more obvious that it’s not exactly perfect in some places). I had to make the buttonholes manually as there was no way the automatic buttonhole foot wouldn’t get caught at some point. I haven’t sewn any that way since I first started out six years ago and was using my mother’s old machine! All the ones I’ve owned have had an automatic function so I had to practice a bit to remind myself how to do it. Thankfully they’ve turned out well.
I also solved the problem of the gap between the collar and lapel by stitching them together. It works a treat!
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Though I’ve made a miniature version for Eight Bear, this is the first time I’ve tried to replicate an existing garment for myself (the Dark Eyes coat was an interpretation rather than a direct copy), and I am actually really proud that I’ve ended up with something that does look pretty much like the original, as well as Steven Ricks’s recreation, which has been a definite influence!
That said, while the coat has turned out well I’m not massively pleased with the waistcoat. I decided to make another one on a whim as I had a more accurate pattern and saw what looked like an ideal fabric but I don’t like it all that much now it’s done. It was hell to put together because the satin just started disintegrating and still is; I’ve had to sew up holes in both the pockets because the seams have just frayed straight through and I’d put them together before I thought of stabilising the edges with interfacing. It’s another men’s pattern and I should have made some adjustments but after doing so much to the coat I really couldn’t be bothered and just put it together as it was; I should really have added some length, which is ironic given the amount I had to remove from the coat, and perhaps levelled it off at the front. Consequently it’s not a great fit and sits really awkwardly on Stella as you can see, though that may have something to do with the fact that I put the buttonholes on the wrong side out of habit:
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There is a watch on the end of the chain this time, because the pockets are real! I quite like the look of the waistcoat undone when I put it on, but done up not so much. There’s a lot of spare fabric in the front for some reason, which I tried to hide by smoothing it under the collar and then stitching the collar down. It hasn’t entirely worked, and it doesn’t help that the brocade is such a bouncy fabric and doesn’t press well.
Putting it all together I do think it looks better on Stella than me, but that’s probably because I rarely wear so many layers! I wish I had a better backdrop than the bedroom but it’ll have to do:
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Maybe I could unbutton the waistcoat and untuck the shirt and be Eight having a casual day? I love the coat but I do feel much more comfortable wearing it over a t-shirt and jeans!
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Now I just have to wait until some cooler weather to be able to put it into use. My only gripe is that there are no external pockets, either on the original or the pattern I used! Surely you’d think the Doctor would need pockets?
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purplishly-prosaic · 6 months
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Portrait of one of my chevalier OCs, Marius, since I'd never done a full painting of him before. I ended up changing his hair from auburn to black since it makes for better contrast and I've been picturing it that way anyway. He looks so vampire-y in these colors but I promise he's just A Guy. ⚔✨
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yewelshtabby · 6 months
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Just a nice, simple frockcoat
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kyriea · 11 months
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May I present: The Gentleperson Pirate!
My "Our Flag Means Death" Stede Bonnet Inspired coat is done! <3 She's made with silk from Silk Baron, 86 hand-sewn pearls, and a lot of patience.
I originally wanted this costume to be a Femme version of Stede, complete with skirt and attire, and then I had a Gender Crisis and realized Oops, not Femme (She/He/They!) and Oops, I'm far too intimidated to make it 100% Screen Accurate.
So while in this panic, my incredible Co-Captain (Shown in the second photo. (He/Him) ), in his infinite wisdom said "Why not just make a coat for You?" And yknow, he was right. <3 So I did! And we wore our Pirate garb to a dinner show two weeks later for my birthday!
Technical Details:
Coat: Silk Dupioni from Silk Baron with a soft cotton lining from a local Fabric Store. Trim is from Joanns, with 86 glass beads sewn by hand to the front and cuffs.
Pattern is by JP Ryan, slightly modified.
Co-Captain's attire is pieced from thrifted, Renaissance Festival purchases, and custom-made leather bracers from a friend. <3
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galactic-bi-cat · 1 year
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Dr Livesey from That TM "Treasure Island"
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Honestly, I'm not even gonna explain myself,,,
(He has zero to none fandom here but enjoy?... whoever's left of his enjoyers)
Edit: w the famous audio
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digitalfashionmuseum · 5 months
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Black Frock Coat, ca. 1890, British.
Victoria and Albert Museum.
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bevismusson · 1 year
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Manchester Art Gallery currently has a terrific exhibition on looking at the parallels between men's fashion in the 1700 and 1800s and men's fashion mod-20th century to now. The stars of the show (as far as I'm concerned) are the original 18th and 19th century outfits. All original and all in remarkably good condition. Absolutely breathtaking handstitching and intricate embroidery.
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Frock coat, 1890.
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fashionsfromhistory · 2 years
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Denim Frock Coat
c.1855
United States
FIDM Museum (Accession Number: 2018.5.109)
Learn more about the history of denim in the United States at this blog post by the FIDM Museum
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whats-in-a-sentence · 7 months
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The sagacious animal went on doing this till gallons of water had been squirted over him, and water was running out of the skirts of his frock-coat as if he had been for a bath with all his clothes on.
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"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician's Nephew" - C. S. Lewis
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clove-pinks · 10 months
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So-called free thinkers when La Mode is pushing redingotes in 1830.
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chicinsilk · 1 year
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Christian Dior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 1952-53 Collection Suzy Parker wears the frock coat, "Ratine". Photo Richard Avedon.
Christian Dior Collection Haute Couture Automne/Hiver 1952-53 Suzy Parker porte la redingote, "Ratine". Photo Richard Avedon.
Ligne "Profilée"
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purplishly-prosaic · 1 year
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Sanguinaria cover lineart finally (and the sketch for comparison)~ 💀🖤🩸 Excited to draw all the boyos together for once.
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