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So, here we are in week two of the new system for PTP. It’s very exciting. I am feeling excited. Also a little nervous, I must confess.
Monica is our model today. She is, of course, from the Marisole Monday & Friend’s series. This whole week will be a neo-Victorian/Steampunk inspired week with hats, skirts and jackets. As I know I’ve said before, I have a THING for the whole idea of different outfits for different activities. When I’m in Victorian fantasy land, I like to decide which outfit goes with which Victorian activity.
A lady of quality in the Victorian era had a variety of gowns at different levels of formality. At one end of the scale was the house dress or morning dress and at the other end of the scale was a ballgown or full-dress.
Monica’s suit today is a promenade costume, I think. To channel my inner-19th century fashion magazine (everyone should have an inner 19th century fashion magazine), here how I would describe it:
A promenade or afternoon visiting costume in purple wool with a matching jacket. Underneath the jacket, the model wears a lavender shirtwaist. The jacket is trimmed in pale teal and aqua velvet and satin. A wide band of lavender satin decorates the skirt and then several rows of aqua ruffles. The chapeau is dyed to match the suit and trimmed in rosettes of aqua silk, feathers and brass buttons. The entire ensemble is quite smart for street or afternoon wear.
Sometimes I am conflicted as to whether I like the term Neo-Victorian or the term Steampunk better. The truth is that I think this set is more Neo-Victorian in its styling. One of the tropes of Steampunk is high technology made through steam-power and there’s none of those aesthetics in this paper doll. However, no matter how I feel about it, I confess that the SEO for steampunk is far better than the SEO for neo-Victorian.
Thoughts from the audience on that one?
Oh, and a few “housekeeping” things. The link to the coloring page version of today’s paper doll is at the top with the links to the PDF. As always, I strongly urge you to print from the PDF copy and to print it however you have been printing them from the beginning. That will assure that the new stuff and the old stuff still fits.
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I’ve developed a love of Neo-Victorian style from following your blog, so I’m already excited about this week’s series. Can’t wait to see what comes next!
Last week was fun. I’m enjoying the anticipation of the next post.
Neo Victorian/Steampunk are pretty high on my list of favorite styles so I am really excited about this week! And being a patron I got to find out about the theme early so I’ve been excited about this week all weekend. It’s nice to have a reason to look forward to Monday:)
So glad I’ve given you a reason to look forward t9 Monday!
I love this so much and I cannot wait until tomorrow.
Thought you would want to know that the black and white pdf is unavailable: reroutes to the color pdf.
This is a very fun format. Thank you for the Neo-Vic set this week! I must start drafting patterns for these wardrobes…
Grrr… I thought I had checked all these. Sigh. Fixed now! Thanks for letting me know. 🙂 And I would love to see your patterns. I once had a reader sew doll dresses from some of my designs it was amazing.
Very nice!
Thanks for the colour & b&w. Looking forward to the rest of the week.