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EMMA. (2020) dir. Autumn de Wilde
COLIN BRIDGERTON & PENELOPE FEATHERINGTON BRIDGERTON / 3x03 — Forces of Nature (2024)
LUKE THOMPSON as BENEDICT BRIDGERTON in BRIDGERTON (2020—) | S3.04
Nicola Coughlan as Penelope Featherington BRIDGERTON (2020-) S03E02 "How Bright The Moon"
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1935) dir. James Whale
The Trans Court Suit
This was my big project I made over the summer! I am beyond proud of and happy with the coat.
The first initial project I wanted for this was a pink waistcoat. I grew up liking pink and most of my stuff was, but that (along with growing up in a hot pink room) made me start to resent pink a lot especially as a teenager. (I think a lot of trans guys have similar stories.) But of course pink was very popular for men throughout a lot of European fashion history. So in many ways this was a self healing project for me, at least in that regard. Which I think was a success!
I actually found the first two portraits after I started working on the outfit, they looked perfect! The first especially is super close to my hair.
The silks for the coat as well as the linen interfacings were second hand or scraps in my stash. The cotton sateen was from Burnley and Trowbridge. This is the first project I fully drafted myself. The waistcoat and breeches were made from an 1820s manual and the coat was primarily taken from Period Patterns by Doris Edison, using also Agreeable Tyrant for interfacings and The Taylor's Complete Guide (for shape reference).
This is also the most hand sewing I’ve done for an outfit. Both of the fronts of the coat and waistcoat are completely by hand. Most of the coat is by hand with machine for structural/backstitches, mostly the seams but not the edges. In total there are 22 buttons.
I made the waistcoat straight across for two reasons A. So I can wear it with my other stuff B. I didn’t have any more trim, that was it. I’ll probably make a more 18th century style waistcoat out of white for this (at some point).
The breeches ended up being too small for my thighs so I started getting frustrated with the fit and rushed them by the end so I could move on. (I accidentally sewed the buttonholes on the wrong side).
Wisdom Defending Youth from the Arrows of Love by Charles Meynier (1810)
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Self-portrait by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1816). Jewish Museum.
Dorothea Lieven (1813) by Thomas Lawrence. Tate Britain.
Pinkie (1794) by Thomas Lawrence. Huntington Library.
Chalk cliffs at Rügen (c. 1819) by Caspar David Friedrich. Kunst Museum Winterthur.
Portrait of Mirza Abolhassan Khan Ilchi (c. 1810), ambassador for the Shah of Persia, by William Beechey. Compton Verney House.engglish artoist
"Nach dem Sturm" (After the Storm) (1819) by Heinrich Reinhold. Hamburger Kunsthalle.
Portrait of Prince Gustav Adolph Friedrich, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (1817) by Johann Heinrich Beck. Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten Hessen.
Portrait of poet and soldier Carl Theodor Körner (1814) by Emma Sophie Körner (attributed to Dorothea Stock). Alte Nationalgalerie.