Don’t know if this will actually happen in time for this year’s ADSC Gatsby Summer Afternoon. But I bought a new hat at Convergence 15, a lovely hot pink confection trimmed with big black feathers and a whole bird, made by Caveat Emptor. Which is ’20s-ish in style and makes me reallyreallyreally want a dress to go with it…
Caveat Emptor pink & black hat
The catalog photo doesn’t do it justice, and it, of course, looks faboo on me (because most hats do ;-). My old Gatsby dress won’t go with it, due to the color scheme, so I’ll just need something in black and pink. Perhaps in some of the styles in the gallery below, from a 1925 catalog.
The first image would be most simple to reproduce (not that I ever reproduce things exactly). The style is very straight, much like the one-hour dress I made before. But I’d have to figure out some interesting pink contrast trim down the center — perhaps buttons or frogs like the image. Which would mean buying a bunch of stuff, and I’m currently broke.
I colorized these second two images to suit my tastes…
The ruffled dress has a bit more shaping, which might be more flattering than ’20s dresses usually are on me (or anyone with curves!). I’d like to make it from black silk, as per the catalog. That dress needs some pink trim, and I have loads of hot pink ribbon in The Stash.
The stripey dress is very intriguing. It’s kind of the basic straight-shape, but with a little gathering in the skirt, maybe a blouson bodice. And then there’s this striped apron on top of the skirt. Weird! But cool! I could piece pink silk (leftover from my Carnivale francaise) with black to make the apron. Slap on some hot pink roses and *bam* wacky Gatsby dress. Hmm … which one…