1790s Round Gown
The transitional era of the 1790s is one of my favorite historical fashion eras. They were trying all kinds of things, and silhouettes could be a little unexpected. I've tried to make a gown from this era before, but ran into some issues and ended up repurposing the fabric for something else altogether due to unsuitability. I'll be revisiting that 1795 round gown in the future, hopefully this next summer. Jane Austen's 250th birthday (a few weeks ago as of the time of starting this post) put me in a Regency kind of mood. I had a lot of thoughts, including some later Regency looks, more like what we tend to see in film adaptations of Austen's works, but after doing some deep dives for inspiration, I found that the printed cotton and linen gowns of the later 1790s and early 1800s were really speaking to me. I had a few yards of Colonial Williamsburg's "Brandied Raisin" cotton in my stash, and it was reminiscent enough of several gowns that I saw in my resea...