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Today’s printable paper doll dress is a promenade dress from 1908.
The gown is based on this illustration from an 1908 Macy’s Catalog. Macy’s was founded in about 1858 and had a thriving mail order business. Their catalogs are just a great source of information. I chose to not try to illustrate the stripes on the original dress fabric. I confess I am not too pleased with how the pleating on the skirt turned out. It should look much stiffer than it does, as taffeta is a very stiff fabric.
Oh well, no dress drawing is perfect.
In fact, a big reason I picked the Edwardian period was because I don’t have a lot of experience drawing these styles of dresses. One of the great challenges of this era is to capture the “pigeon breasted” look of the era. Bodices had a great deal of fullness in the front and then came into a narrow waist. This is actually a pretty challenging thing for me to illustrate in paper doll form.
Still, you get better at nothing unless you practice. So, this is me practicing.
While I chose lavender for today’s dress, the black and white version could be any color. The catalog describes this dress as a two-piece jumper model available in blue, red, green, brown or lavender. I think it would be stunning in red, too.
As always, I recommend printing from the PDF versions at the top of the post.
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Hope everyone has a lovely Wednesday and remember: Accessory Thursday tomorrow!
One last little thing, I am trying to decide what to work on this weekend. I’m out of backlog and have a ton of stuff in process, so to help me focus I am asking my readers what they think.
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Really loving the new weekly paper doll posts. So much fun with the wardrobes and accessories!
Thank you! It’s fun to do.
Love the color! I wanted to vote for more than one! lol! So many of them sounded fun!
Well, they are probably all going to be done “eventually”, but as you know, eventually can be like a year.
I wanted to vote for BOTH Little Red Riding Hood and Marcus, because the poor gentlemen just don’t get as many outfits, but fairy tales…. So Marcus was my close second.