sister_raphael | Made for a maid (Reply)

The maid's outfit for the Very Victorian Museum event is progressing slowly. I've had a number of costuming issues with this, mainly stemming from it not being a time period I know a great deal about. This coupled with the information overload from friends who really DO know about it and are trying to be exceptionally helpful. I'm not trying for re-enactor level. I'm aiming more of a let's-not-be-naked-at-the-event and look like the other maids for a cohesive staff look.

This in itself is a little tricky, because the costuming is a bought pattern which is mostly right but has a few big flaws. So I'd like to correct those but still need to match, if you understand my meaning.

As most people would realise, the frill seen from the outside of the garment would have been the collar of the petticoat, and my first attempts gave a thicker and unflattering collar. I was lucky enough to find a sweet little frilled top at a Thrift shop, but when I paired it with the blouse, it repeatedly slipped down where it couldn't be seen.

My fix for this was simply adding a row of stitching to hold it in place, and that worked really well.