Made of crepe, this bridesmaid's dress has simple lines. The sleeves and skirt flare at the hem. A separate piece is attached at the neck to make the tied collar. Billie Jo
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A few years ago, when my sisters and I discussed having a paper doll website, the idea that spawned it was to offer challenges, where one person would suggest a challenge and others would all draw paper doll dresses for the challenge.
It's taken us a long time, but we're finally ready to start hosting challenges here on Paper Doll Bag. This month's challenge theme: January Birthdays
Please send the pictures of your dresses to paperdollbag[at]gmail[dot]com by January 26. We will post the dresses on January 31. Mel This is another 1930's wedding gown. It is made of satin with an a-line style skirt, a high waist, and tight fitting bodice with short ruffled sleeves. The veil is very long and flowing, held around the head with combs and hanging down to form the train. Long gloves end above the elbow. Billie Jo
This is the bridesmaids dress that I designed to coordinate with the wedding dress I posted several days ago. It is a long a-line skirt attached to the belt at the waist with a heavy flare at the bottom. Dancing in this would be amazing, it would have a wonderful swish! The bodice is fitted with a high sweetheart neckline. The sleeves are gathered to the bodice to form a puff. Billie Jo
Sometimes I like to pretend I am a wedding consultant and help a fake bride plan her wedding. It is just one of the things I do when I should be doing something else but want to have a little fun. =) My latest pretend wedding to plan has been a 1930's wedding. I found lots of of dresses but not quite what I (or my client=)) wanted so.....I went to the drawing board. Being a sewer I know that you can make whatever you want most of the time. I found a few dresses and ideas of what I wanted on Pinterest and since Emma was a 1930's doll I thought I would use her as my model and went to work. This is what I came up with. A dress of satin overlaid with Organza, pearls or rhinestones adorn the belt and sleeve and neck hems. A long train trails out from the back. The short veil is attached to the back of the head with a comb. The same pearls or rhinestones on the dress adorn the headpiece at the top to cover the comb. Long gloves come almost to the hem of the sleeves Billie Jo
Here at The Paper Doll Bag, we will be taking a break for the month of October. There will be no regularly scheduled posts. Billie or I may pop in from time to time to post something, but there will be no new dolls or dresses for a month. We need to fall back and regroup.
We hope to be back on November first with new dolls and dresses, but that is tentative right now. Billie and I both plan on doing NaNoWriMo this year again, so we're trying to see if we can balance posting on this blog with NaNo. Stay well, enjoy autumn and we'll see you later! Mel A full mantle of a wool/silk blend, fastened with a cord and button. The bottom of the mantle is curved.
"but a favorite of hers, a soft white flannel simply made."
I love the scene in The White Lady where this is taken from. It would have just been a simple dress made of white flannel so that's what I did. =) Wedding gowns for the nobility and royalty consist of a long sleeved under-gown with a plain neck and a skirt that falls in pleats. The over-gown has a stand up collar in the back and dips into a keyhole-shaped neckline in the front. The loose sleeves end just below the elbow and trail down into a short train. The skirt flares out over the under-gown and tapers to a train in the back. Due to being sick and our hiatus, Jolene will not be ready on September 17. Instead, her PDF will be available for download HERE on September 24.
Mel "Her one evening dress was a dark green chiffon which she herself had fashioned from an old gown of her mother’s," This is a dress Kerry wears for dinner, as you can see there was not a lot of description so I took artistic liberties. This dress is made of chiffon with a silk under dress probably, an under dress of something anyway. Lot of gathers and puckers to the bodice. Due to being sick and our hiatus, the Emma PDF will not be ready on September 15. Instead, her PDF will be available for download HERE on September 22.
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