Sewing A Victorian Velvet Coat: Q&A || #historicalsewing #historicalcostume #sewwithme #sewingforme

*** Sign up for free sewing tutorials and a weekly love letter at https://foundationsrevealed.com/free-level/ *** My epic Victorian velvet coat sewing project has to take a break this month while I'm away, but before I left I filmed today's video to answer some of the questions and comments you've so kindly left me. From whether the sleeves are puffy enough, to Holbein portraits, to the Rocky Horror Picture Show, we cover it all in this one! Thank you for being so engaged and excited with me as this long term project develops in real time! Love, Cathy x Some notes.... 4:07 Book: Jan Glier Reeder, High Style: Masterworks from the Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2015, Yale University Press) The Worth butterfly dress - lots more zoomable images here: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/156027 7:10 House of Worth seamstresses, 1907 (Public domain) 11:53 Reform dress, embroidery, red brown velvet, about 1910. Repository of Historisches Museum Frankfurt (Historical Museum Frankfurt) No. X.1963.007 (Public domain.) 11:57 James McNeill Whistler (1834–1904), Symphony in White, No. 2, 1864 12:44 Revue de la Mode, Gazette de la Famille, dimanche 28 Novembre 1880, 9e année, No. 465: Toilettes de Mme Lesueur 12:48 The fabulous lady in the stunning riding habit is soprano Marie Selika Williams, known as the “queen of staccato,” who became the first black artist to perform at the White House, 1878 13:13 Book: Norah Waugh, Cut of