Peacock Dress: August 2021 Video Diary || ft. Sewing Pattern Mockup Fitting Tutorial, Step by Step

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Is this what the skirt looked like on the night?



The bodice pattern is done, and now back to the skirt! This month I'll clear up a couple of problems in the skirt pattern, and mock it up on a half size mannequin.



I've also tracked down a sketch of the guests at the ball, possibly including Mary Curzon in the Peacock Dress, so that we can see what the dress might have looked like in action on the night.

...all of which is terribly exciting, but I want you to go meta with this video aswell.



When you see that picture of the guests at the ball, what do you see? What does that image stand for? What does it mean? Does it make you... uneasy?



As we wrap up the story of the dress pattern and finally answer the biggest questions about how this dress was made, I think it's time for me to re-check what I'm really up to here... but that conversation will come next month.





Images:

Image of the waistband of the original Peacock Dress reproduced by kind permission of the NT and Howard Sutcliffe

Image of Mary Curzon from Alamy

Images from the Illustrated London News reproduced by kind permission of the Mary Evans Library



Music:
'Beyond Here (scaled down version)’ by Josef Bel Habib
‘Cello Suite No.1 in G Major (MWV 1007_1 Prelude)’ – JS Bach
‘Cotton Dreams’ by Elm Lake
‘Striving’ by Trevor Kowalski
‘Lily’s Dance’ by Million Eyes
‘Wish of the Progeny’ by Lama House
‘Lens Flare 3’ by Peter Sandberg
‘The Tree of Love’ by Million Eyes
‘A Whisper in the Dark’ by Gavin Luke
‘Intermit (Scaled Down Version)’ by Josef Bel Habib
‘Thread the Needle’ by Gavin Luke
‘All That You Will Be’ by Gavin Luke
‘Courage Endures’ by Trevor Kowalski
‘Gravity & Growth’ by Eneide
‘We Live On’ by Gavin Luke
(All from Epidemic Sound)

Edited by Sophie Black at @triskellepictures
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