As featured on A Festive Attyre website! Lady Rebekah ferch Anna of the Shire of Grey Gargoyles made my daughter Victoria a beautiful Teal Green Elizabethan gown for her 10th birthday. Shortly there after Victoria was hob knobbing with the royalty and serving as Page to the Queen. Her look and demeanor in this gown are truly befitting a young lady of the Elizabethan age. Few adults could have pulled the transformation off as well as my child who all of a sudden fit flawlessly into the court scene. ~ Bess Gown Info from Lady Rebekah: The main fabric of the gown in a teal green antique satin, trimmed with dark green velvet guards and mint green braid. The chemise is cotton muslin with Venice lace ruffles at the cuffs. I was experimenting when I made the chemise, and pretty much based the pattern on the Italian camica on the Festive Attyre site. The pattern for the upper sleeves was based off of the pattern in Margo Anderson's Elizabethan Ladies Wardrobe, and scaled down to size. The gown also has a detachable set of lower sleeves that are not shown here. The farthingale I made out of some green broadcloth I had laying around using the Alcega pattern found on Drea Leed's website. I think it gives a really nice shape, without being overpowering for a smaller person. This dress was a present for Tori's tenth birthday, and was influenced by the portrait of Princess Elizabeth in that I tried to keep the lines simple but elegant.
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