CVD Presents the 1923 One Hour Dress Workshop
About the Instructors:
Barbara Pugliese is the co-director of the Commonwealth Vintage Dancers and an expert on 19th and early 20th century ballroom fashion. She will be a lecturer at the Costume Colloquium in Florence, Italy later this year
Catherine Bishop is the costume coordinator for the Commonwealth Vintage Dancers and founder of Vintage Victorian. She worked for a number of years in the conservation lab of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's Department of Textiles and Costumes.
Nicole Carlson studied graduate level costume production at the Boston University School of Theatre, where she also taught the Introduction to Costume Construction class for two years. She has worked in theater costuming in Boston, Atlanta, and Wisconsin.
Fashion designers, seamstresses, and costume enthusiasts are invited to join us at Corinthian Hall for an introduction to a famous 1920's method for producing an authentic "flapper" style dress in just one hour. The workshop is the first in a series of historical dress workshops to be hosted by the Commonwealth Vintage Dancers.
The workshop is based on the classic 1923 publication The One Hour Dressby Mary Brooks Picken and includes a brief lecture on 1920's fashion, a light tea, and a live dress making demonstration with opportunities for participants to gain all of the instructions and measurements needed to create their own dresses at home.
This method is easy enough for a beginner to make a simple costume in a few hours, but versatile enough for a more experienced seamstress to use in creating dozens of very accurate 1920's designs. Best of all, this particular style feels so current that it's more than just a costume. Every fashionable woman is going to want one in her closet for her next cocktail reception or holiday party!
The workshop is being offered as a prelude to the Black Cat Speakeasy, a 1920's themed Halloween ball to be held at Corinthian Hall on October 30, 2010, where participants are encouraged to wear 1920's style clothing.
Workshop admission is $15 and includes a complete copy of the original 1923 One Hour Dress booklet, along with several color fashion plates from the era.
