Like nearly everyone else, I loved Bridgerton‘s costumes. The modernisms and fluffy Romanticism made perfect sense given the romance novel plot, and it was great to see a fun take on a period that WORKED with the source material.
I really wanted to make a silly pelisse in the style of Lady Bridgerton but in the Featheringtons’ colors, and the hair. I ended up spending MORE time on the dress that went underneath, which I made from a hot pink silk sari that was made from that super thin silk that shreds the second you look at it.
Because this was meant to be a fun costume and banged out, I used Laughing Moon patterns for the dress and pelisse. Once I remembered that commercial patterns have seam allowance (something I tend to forget), they went together swimmingly! As references for how these garments were cut and constructed, I used Janet Arnold’s Patterns of Fashion 1: Englishwomen’s Dresses and Their Construction C. 1660-1860 and Norah Waugh’s The cut of women’s clothes 1600-1930, both of which are go-to resources for me.
