1790-92 Blue Figured Jacket
A 1790-92 Pierrot jacket and matching petticoat, made from a navy and green figured silk.
Inspiration & Resources
Useful Books & Links
Waugh, Norah.
The Cut of Women's Clothes. New York: Routledge, 1968.
Payne, Blanche.
History of Costume. Harper & Row, 1965.
My Pinterest Project Board
Pattern
Originally draped in a Burnley & Trowbridge workshop, the last version of the jacket was patterned by referencing the jacket diagrams in The Cut of Women’s Clothes by Norah Waugh and The History of Costume by Blanche Payne.
Related Blog Posts
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12/19/2017
This jacket started its life in the Burnley & Trowbridge workshop I attended last year. Like I mentioned in my previous post, I had a hard time conceptualizing the design for my jacket on the fly, and while I liked the finished jacket, I didn’t love it. It didn’t match the image in by brain, even if I couldn’t quite articulate what that image was. So I let it sit half-finished for a couple of months before I attempted to rework the jacket using the existing base. I managed to get something a little closer to the picture in my mind; still it wasn’t quite right. Back to the UFO pile, where it marinated for a good 6 months before I was ready to tackle it again.
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01/09/2018
I’ve always wanted to visit Colonial Williamsburg in December. All the lovely holiday decorations around town look so festive and cheerful – a perfect antidote to winter blahs. Serendipitously, a group of us all had thoughts to visit this winter and we were able to spend a long weekend together relaxing, eating, and enjoying the sights.
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