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Adapting a Chemise a la Reine into a Modern Summer Dress: Design Process

For 10% off your first Squarespace website or domain, visit https://www.squarespace.com/bernadettebanner and use my Coupon Code BERNADETTEBANNER Prints of this rendering will be available in my Etsy shop with the release of the final process video! FURTHER READING: For more information on the history and origin of the chemise à la reine, see Jane Ashelford’s article “‘Colonial livery’ and the chemise à la reine, 1779-1784’ published in “Costume: The Journal of the Costume Society” Volume 52, Number 2 (pages 217-239), September 2018. SOURCES: White cotton lawn: Fabrics Garden 39th St Red silk satin: Fabrics Garden, 39th St Lace on sale: Mokuba, 38th St Artstuff: (Please know that these are affiliate links) Cold press watercolor paper: https://amzn.to/2Fzl7qa Sable watercolor brushes (#2, #10, and #0 used here): https://amzn.to/2DfgXBt Watercolor palette: https://amzn.to/2FwRpSH Masking fluid: https://amzn.to/2SU4Q22 Textured with black tea granules (Tetley’s, if you must know.) Portals to Other Realms: Instagram, for real-time progress: http://www.instagram.com/bernadettebanner (@bernadettebanner) Patreon, for more vloggish and bloggish content: https://www.patreon.com/bernadettebanner Ko-Fi, if that’s more your thing: https://ko-fi.com/bernadettebanner Prints of costume renderings: https://www.redbubble.com/people/bertiebanner/shop For business enquiries, please contact my representation at: [email protected] Requests for personal dressmaking commissions are not considered at this time. IMAGE CREDITS: 1. [Pinterest, unaccredited] Chemise a la Reine, c. 1785-1789. Original in the Musée de la Toile de Jouy (https://www.pinterest.com/pin/66217056992025572/?lp=true) 2. “Marie Antoinette in a Chemise Dress” Elisabeth Louise Vigée LeBrun, 1783. The Metropolitan Museum of Art (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/656930) 3. Chemise, c. 1780. Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/coll

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  • Originally Aired August 15, 2019
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