McCall's 6097

[Manwariel]

McCall's has a new costume pattern - http://mccallpattern.mccall.com/m6097-products-10908.php?page_id=915

It's supposedly Victorian, but it looks more like a cross between that and Tudor (not that I'd really know, though). o.O

I love the bustle and the detachable train is nifty. But it's quite aggravating how they only tell you the yardage for combined pieces, so if you just to make the bustle, for example, you don't know for sure how much fabric to get.

[Lady Rebecca]

That certainly is one confused costume. I would argue it's a bit like a Rococo meets Tudor, plus a bustle. I don't really get it...

[Dinobabe]

Hancock's is having a pattern sale March 13-17 so I figured I would get it, plus a few others.  Never know when something like that might come in handy!

[Adriana Rose]

But it is still very pretty! I might get the pattern and see what I can frankenstien off of it.


It has the yardage for the bustle but its in centimeters

[operafantomet]

To me it looks like a Tudor dress marrying a mantua ( http://aneafiles.webs.com/mantua.html )... Nothing about it is Victorian, except MAYBE the backdrape.

The square piece in front of the bodice makes the wearer look big, though. And she's a slim lady. They should put in some sort of optical illusion, by pinching it in the waist, similar to this:

http://s638.photobucket.com/albums/uu101/potocostumes/wishing/ger2thomas.jpg
http://s638.photobucket.com/albums/uu101/potocostumes/wishing/can3caine.jpg

Would do wonders to the figure.

[Elennare]

Looks rather like the dresses they wore in the Old South before the Civil War.  Which overlaps in time period with the Victorian era, so maybe they were going for an American style rather than English, and just called it Victorian?

Edit:  d'oh.  can't believe I forgot to write this part.  Whatever they were going for, the sample in the picture is very pretty!

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

Definitely 18th Century, mixed in with Victorian with the Bustle. While pretty, confusing at the same time as to what look this pattern is going for.

I will be staying away from this one.

[ArielCallista]

It doesn't make much since period wise, but I still love it!

[flidais]

That is a very odd pattern. I'm not sure wha they were going for there.

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

Don't be surprised if we begin to see garments sold on eBay made from this pattern as Renaissance Clothing.

[Aunty Lou]

Well, looks to me like a mishmash of styles suitable for a Goth/Steampunk look.  Strictly costume, and nothing H/A...  In black and gold, with makeup and dark red lips and a tiny hat & veil, there's Halloween!  But if you made it in all the same color, added a froth of lace to the neckline, and put a puff sleeve instead of the cuffed sleeves, you might have an aproximation of the cuirasse styles of the late 1870's...

[Adriana Rose]

I want to make the skirt, it fits my charater at faire to a T, frilly fluffy and out in left field..

I just need the spare time

[operafantomet]

Don't be surprised if we begin to see garments sold on eBay made from this pattern as Renaissance Clothing.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGGH!!

(Sorry, just had to get it out...)

[ArielCallista]

Ebayers should do their research before labeling anything...itas sad what you can find labeled "renaissance" and "victorian"

[GirlChris]

Not to mention the things labeled "renaissance victorian steampunk goth medieval"

[Kate XXXXXX]

Historic garb salad, or pig's breakfast?   

[ArielCallista]

hahaha...So there was a sale on patterns so I picked it up...mostly cuz i was highly confused by it...Now that I look at it itreminds me of the American girl Felicity...her books are all based in 1774 if I'm remembering correctly...I'm no fashion historian...but does America in the late 1700s sound close at all? Of course all the colors they chose make no sense for that time in my mind...but the pattern alone seems close-ish...Or am I crazy?

I still really think its pretty...just don't know what I'd ever do with it...

[LadyStitch]

If it didn't have the frilly bussle I think it would be late 1700's.  It might just be McCalls's attempt at a steam punk pattern. /shrug