Iceberg Ahead!!

Well, as they sometimes do, things kind of piled up at work and I haven't been able to make the Titanic 100th Anniversary dresses that I had wanted to have finished this month.  I'll still do them this year, so they will fall into the centennial ... I don't think "celebration" is the right word.  In fact, I'm not sure what it says about me in general that I'm constructing a reproduction costume to draw attention to an event where hundreds of people lost their lives in a horrific way.  :: shrug ::  (This coming from a person who, for 12 years, regularly attended Civil War reenactments to watch people shoot blanks at each other and who has plans to return to those events sometime in the future.)  Any excuse to sew fashions from other eras, I guess.  It is what it is.

Anyway, touch of the macabre aside, here is the pattern I'll be using to make the dresses:

Simplicity 8399

I'm actually not a huge fan of the tea gown on the right.  I mean, it's pretty, but I'm not sure how the style would look on me.  I do love the high waist of both, though.  I think it's interesting that I'm sitting here, 100 years after the year these designs were in vogue, admiring them for their similarity to fashions 100 years before then.  The empire waists and the cap sleeves of the one on the left are very inspired by Regency fashion circa 1812.  Hmm.  Probably why I like that one so much.

I do plan on making one that's pretty close to those colors and look.  I did enjoy the 1999 film, after all (even if I still can't reconcile that there was obviously plenty of room for both of them on her "raft".  We won't even go down that road...) and I love making pieces as close to the film wardrobe as possible.  But I also have a gray-blue satin that will go under an off-white lace that I think will be very pretty.

Those come after the 2 Regency pieces for the festival, which come after the sewing for the booth is done.  It's going to be a busy 4 weeks!!!  Hope I don't encounter any more "icebergs" of derailments and distractions that sink the ship of productivity I'm in.  Exactly like the Titanic, that baby isn't equipped with adequate life boats or flotation devices either!