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Well, I finally quickly put this down on paper, of what I'm *hoping* my wedding dress is going to turn out like. I did a fitting today, with the wonderful ~MissMaggie1860 , and I'm way more optimistic than I thought I would be!

Color change from the original design, because I cannot, for the life of me, find lavender colored silk taffeta! It's all rose, or gray, and while I wouldn't have minded gray, I've always been a blue person, so when I saw a dark-ish blue taffetta, I had to order it and decided to go with that.

I've also come to the conclusion that I'm not a fru-fru trim type person; while I love ruffles, they have their place, and this type of dress seems to benefit from not having any on it.

Plus, we decided to take it to a little twist - most of the jewelry and other accents are going to be Steampunk inspired I've already boughten a lot of it, from a ton of artists - I'm a little in shock over spending $350 on jewelry via Etsy, but I think it will all be so worth it!

So, onto the details, if anyone really wants to know.

Based off of a dress in the Historic Collection at UW-Milwaukee, c.1880

Pattern draped wholly by myself, over a 1900 flat front corset (which gives me a better shape for the cut of this dress, even if it isn't accurate)

Natural form bustle means that the poof is lower on the back, not on the butt, usually done with ties. This dress, however, was a weirdo from others, and all the poofs are done with pleats, and some of them in interesting knot-type ways (which gave me nightmares to translate into paper)

6 pattern pieces total for the dress (!), two of which are sleeves, and the other two are the left front and the right front XP

Under skirt will be something more like a 1910 walking skirt, just so it's a little more full in the back, without adding too much fullness to the shape in the front.

Small train (which, when I upload the pictures, you'll see isn't in the mock-up) which I'll add in later by creating more pleats.

Small riding hat ish thing going on, that I have still to make. Lots of feathers, gems, beads, and a very, very cool hat pin commissioned from ~Heterodyning (with a matching one for Chris)

Trim will be satin ribbon, more than likely, although I'm not positive until I figure out exactly what color the front will be faced in. Trims will be antique gold in color, with accents of bronze, copper, and silver, because those are all the colors going into our Steampunk accessories.

Made out of dark blue silk taffeta (I'm ordering 20 yards, in case I want to put pleats on the under skirt), and flat lined in ... something. Not sure what yet

All in all, I'm very excited - it's way far from traditional, which makes me happy, but still really pretty! I'll be uploading pictures from the fitting I did today shortly, and I'll try to remember to link back!

And, please forgive the rather crappy sketch - I was being very lazy...

Edit
So, I just realized... I didn't draw it with the dropped shoulders in the back, the dress is period like that, and I also drew the swag backwards.... yeah. I win.

Picture of the mock up can be seen here

2008 Sam Lemieux/Taeliac Studio

Description
Well, I finally quickly put this down on paper, of what I'm *hoping* my wedding dress is going to turn out like. I did a fitting today, with the wonderful ~MissMaggie1860 , and I'm way more optimistic than I thought I would be!

Color change from the original design, because I cannot, for the life of me, find lavender colored silk taffeta! It's all rose, or gray, and while I wouldn't have minded gray, I've always been a blue person, so when I saw a dark-ish blue taffetta, I had to order it and decided to go with that.

I've also come to the conclusion that I'm not a fru-fru trim type person; while I love ruffles, they have their place, and this type of dress seems to benefit from not having any on it.

Plus, we decided to take it to a little twist - most of the jewelry and other accents are going to be Steampunk inspired I've already boughten a lot of it, from a ton of artists - I'm a little in shock over spending $350 on jewelry via Etsy, but I think it will all be so worth it!

So, onto the details, if anyone really wants to know.

Based off of a dress in the Historic Collection at UW-Milwaukee, c.1880

Pattern draped wholly by myself, over a 1900 flat front corset (which gives me a better shape for the cut of this dress, even if it isn't accurate)

Natural form bustle means that the poof is lower on the back, not on the butt, usually done with ties. This dress, however, was a weirdo from others, and all the poofs are done with pleats, and some of them in interesting knot-type ways (which gave me nightmares to translate into paper)

6 pattern pieces total for the dress (!), two of which are sleeves, and the other two are the left front and the right front XP

Under skirt will be something more like a 1910 walking skirt, just so it's a little more full in the back, without adding too much fullness to the shape in the front.

Small train (which, when I upload the pictures, you'll see isn't in the mock-up) which I'll add in later by creating more pleats.

Small riding hat ish thing going on, that I have still to make. Lots of feathers, gems, beads, and a very, very cool hat pin commissioned from ~Heterodyning (with a matching one for Chris)

Trim will be satin ribbon, more than likely, although I'm not positive until I figure out exactly what color the front will be faced in. Trims will be antique gold in color, with accents of bronze, copper, and silver, because those are all the colors going into our Steampunk accessories.

Made out of dark blue silk taffeta (I'm ordering 20 yards, in case I want to put pleats on the under skirt), and flat lined in ... something. Not sure what yet

All in all, I'm very excited - it's way far from traditional, which makes me happy, but still really pretty! I'll be uploading pictures from the fitting I did today shortly, and I'll try to remember to link back!

And, please forgive the rather crappy sketch - I was being very lazy...

Edit
So, I just realized... I didn't draw it with the dropped shoulders in the back, the dress is period like that, and I also drew the swag backwards.... yeah. I win.

Picture of the mock up can be seen here

2008 Sam Lemieux/Taeliac Studio