1880's LACP Costumes

{above: snapping a selfie in the new dress and stage makeup. I'm having a blast trying out new french braid updos and doing stage makeup on myself. Of course this isn't my normal look, but its fun to pile up the makeup just for something different. =)}

This is Wednesday's promised post, just posted on Saturday, instead of Wednesday. 

I'm sorry, and welcome to my world. =)

All of this week has been crazy; I've been doing a million things whilst being partly sick, and blogging has been the last thing I've had time for.

Hence here I finally am, sitting in one of the little dressing rooms at my church, posting in between my last scenes for the night. 

Hey, it works. =) 

One of the finished maid outfits. 

Not my favorite thing to sew (or wear!), but I do love how they turned out. 

This project was last minute, and super duper fun. 

I had to sew a Civil War era, little girl's formal party dress for my younger sister.

I had looked all over the place, and couldn't find anything that was even close.

Very last minute my pastor's wife mentioned that she had a bunch of old bridesmaid dresses that I could look through for options.

I found this one (above) and instantly saw endless possibilities.

I took in all of the seams multiple times.

(this was how it went: take in seams. sister tries it on.too big. I sew in seams again. sister tries it on again. its still too big. etc etc....)

Then I took the long skirt and just went to town with trying my hand at sewing pickups/ruching.

I'd always wanted to try this on something and this was the perfect project.

Ta Da!

Very possibly one of my favorite alteration projects to date.

Then I took an old pair of her flats, which have stains and rips etc...

....and covered them with extra lining fabric (that I had cut off of the dress when I shortened it) and lace.

The sash was way too big so I cut it in half and used half of it to make a new sash for the dress.

The other half of the sash I used for a matching hairbow for her. =)

My mother made her a pair of adorable lacy bloomers.

And she honestly looks like she just stepped out of the time period---SO FUN!

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(complete pictures of us in full outfits, coming later on next week)

If you're able, come out for our last two showings tomorrow, @ 11am & 5pm! Can't believe this whole production is so close to done!

Anyway, got to run---the scene before my last scene is going right now, so I've got to get up there in time! =)

-chels