Panic-Sewing a Regency Gown in Three Days!

In this video, I will walk you step by step through how I made an 1810’s Regency Gown in three days—and in a full panic! After taking so long to finish my Rococo David Bowie costume and doing some alterations on another of my costumes, I found myself with little more than a week to complete my entire Regency Zombie ensemble before I left for Costume College, where I planned to wear it for the Pride and Prejudice and Zombies tea. This Regency dress is based off of a fashion plate from 1812, though I’m stretching the years a bit—the pattern I’m using says it’s good from about 1085-1810. Nonetheless, one of the bodice fronts from this pattern resembled the fashion plate most, so that’s the pattern I went with. While this is a shorter and slightly-more utilitarian video than normal because I was in crunch time to get it done, I do try and show you all the strangest bits of the pattern. I also spend an excessive amount of time waxing poetic about this pattern. Y’all, it was a dream to work with! This is the second part of my Regency Zombie project. The first video, about making my reversible, upcycled Regency stays (featuring the long stays pattern from Redthreaded) can be found here: https://youtu.be/ivBFGZJafaI The third part of this series, where I make the zombie overdress, bloody fichu and brain reticule will be uploaded closer to Spooky season, since in the time crunch before Costume College I had to temporarily 86 the brain reticule. I know all are eager to see me make