{"id":3369,"date":"2021-01-21T14:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T12:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/patterns.bplaced.net\/blog\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2021-01-23T16:35:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T14:35:43","slug":"1840s-morning-dress-wrapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patterns.bplaced.net\/blog\/?p=3369","title":{"rendered":"1840s Morning Dress (Wrapper) Part 1 – The extant dress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Some weeks ago, I got this beautiful extant dress from the 1840s as a loan from a friend and – what a surprise – she asked me to make a sewing pattern out of it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is made from a fine block printed muslin and seems to be a very simple dress at first glance. At second glance, it offers many details, like the finest hand stitching I\u00b4ve ever seen, silk cord for piping and drawstrings and a very interesting sleeve cuff. To save as much fabric as possible, all bodice pieces are pieced, sometimes several times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This kind of dress would have been worn in the morning, on hot summer days, or as a maternity dress, and is called a wrapper. Made from printed calico fabric, this style was worn by women of the working class during the pre-civil war era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original dress is completely hand-stitched. The fashion fabric is mounted on a tight-fitting, boned lining bodice and closes at the center front, the fullness of the front panel is gathered with drawstrings to fit the waist and kept closed with pins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If you\u00b4re interested in sewing the dress, follow me to the next post<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sewing pattern is available via my Etsy shop. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some weeks ago, I got this beautiful extant dress from the 1840s as a loan from a friend and – what a surprise – she asked me to make a sewing pattern out of it. It is made from a fine block printed muslin and seems to be a very simple dress at first glance. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-0121-1840s-dress","category-tutorials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patterns.bplaced.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patterns.bplaced.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patterns.bplaced.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patterns.bplaced.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patterns.bplaced.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/patterns.bplaced.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3530,"href":"https:\/\/patterns.bplaced.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions\/3530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patterns.bplaced.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patterns.bplaced.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patterns.bplaced.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patterns.bplaced.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}