This is what the women of this country wear for nightgowns. It is a simple gown with long sleeves that are folded back in cuffs during the summer and left long over the hands in the winter.
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This dress is based on a dress description from the book Ladybird, page 199.
"like some stranger in a wonderful sleeveless low-cut gown of deep rich velvet in dark red tones. There were ropes of little pearls about her neck and hanging low on the front of her gown." When I read this description I thought of a dress I had seen on Pinterest. I think the dress in the book would have had a belt but I took artistic license and drew MY version of the dress =). Using the the picture linked above and this one (third one from left) as well as the description from the book for inspiration I drew this dress. I made it a bias cut clingy dress with a slouch neck. I've stated before that I love studying costumes. One of my dream jobs is to work as a costume designer for historical and fantasy movies. That will likely never happen, but I love designing costumes for paper dolls and the many stories I write.
Jolene's wardrobe was born when I was experimenting with medieval-style costumes for one of the countries in my medieval fantasy world of Quivira. I really liked a few medieval dresses with various corset styles that I had seen on Pinterest and began thinking about what it would be like to have an entire country dressed like that. Jolene's costumes are my answer to that thought. One of the things Mel and I had talked about, when talking about what we wanted to do here on the blog, was taking descriptions from books and drawing dresses based on them. I think it's safe to say that the 1930's is my favorite costume era. My favorite author Grace Livingston Hill, wrote many books in the 1930's, several of which I happen to own. So, for this doll I went through the books I have that are set in the 1930's, taking the dress descriptions from them and basing Emma's dresses off of them.
I hope you will like seeing her wardrobe as much as I liked drawing it. With each dress I will include the description and a little about what I did to make the dress the way you see it, how I changed it, what I added and why. Frank and Josa are playing dress up again. This time they are playing a medieval game. Frank is wearing a page costume of tights, an under-tunic with loose flowing sleeves, and a sleeveless over-tunic with trim of a contrasting color at the arm-holes, neckline, and hem. The belt that fastens the over-tunic is of the same fabric as the trim.
A crepe dress that Fayth is wearing to my birthday party!
Today is Josie Anne's birthday. We want to wish our dear sister a very happy birthday and a wonderful year ahead!
Mel and Billie Jo Today Frank has to clean out the goat pen and shed. To do this very dirty job, he is wearing a T-shirt, jean overalls and rubber boots.
I don't envy him his job. I've had to clean out goat pens before and it is a tough, dirty, smelly job. It is a bit chilly and rainy today. It is after school and Fayth is going out to dinner with the pastor of the local church and his wife. She is wearing a maxi style chiffon dress with a jacket made of knit.
Today Frank is just lounging around. He wears a striped t-shirt and blue jeans.
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