Julia is taking her grandmother’s fashion sketches from the 1940s and sewing the designs herself. It took about two months to make one gold ballgown, which is getting a lot of attention on her TikTok account. “She was really proud and excited that I completed it,” Julia told Inside Edition Digital. She learned how to sew entirely for this project. “In the sixth grade, I made an alphabet letter pillow in home ec. But except for that brief stint … I have no professional training,” she said.
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Patterning a Gilded Age Bodice — Fashion Plate to Reality
I'm sure it's happened to most of us -- we see a really cool fashion plate, or movie costume, or extant dress, and wonder -- how the heck is that thing made? And then we embark on the trial and error process of figuring it out. So this is all about how I took my basic...
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