I had the idea of
designing a dress based around a letter after coming across the book (and blog)
Letters of Note. I'd also flicked through a book a few months earlier about
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough and his wife Sarah Churchill. Quite how
the two ended up coming together I'm not sure. Possibly because I remembered
thinking that John Churchill wrote dramatic letters to his wife.
This dress is based
around two letters that the John Churchill sent to his wife in 1706, from the
Hague, and all the writing on the dress is taken from those two letters. I
would have loved to have been able to have recreated his writing on the dress,
but I don't seem particularly skilled at copying handwriting, so the
handwriting ended up as a rather poor approximation.
The dress itself is
a parchment colour and reaches to just below the ankles. It has plain,
parchment coloured straps and would fasten using a zip at the back. The skirt
of the dress is ruffled and hitched, the hitching in the skirt would be made
adjustable using ribbons inside the skirt, which would mean that the skirt
length of the dress could be adjusted slightly.
I hope you liked
this design. For more designs, check back here next week, or visit my every-day
wear blog: www.bronzedaledesigns.blogspot.co.uk/.
Dress
design and images © Bronzedale Designs
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