Simplicity
Pattern #7212.
1860's Camp Dress
These gowns are made of 100% cotton and come with piping in most seams, bodice linings and boning. Dress opens in front, closures are hook & eyes or buttons (your choice).
Pricing veries, depending on your design, color, fabric choices, trim, and hoop size.
These Day Dresses have been custom made for my customers, using Simplicity Pattern #7212. A look at how this same pattern can be changed to suit your tastes.
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Shell
Stitch Crochet Collar, Original was found in my
Great-Grandmother's things. Actual Date Unknow
Dress
Bodice is boned.
Dress
is fully lined with unbleeched muslin.
Simplicity
Pattern #7212.
Style Dated: 1850-1860, Pagoda Sleeves with attachable Undersleeves. Inner sleeve trim was hand-dyed to match the print in dress.
This gown (left) was made for Fort Lancaster Historical Site, Sheffield, Texas.
Simplicity #7212 (1860’s Day or Tea Dress)
Using my/our purchased cotton fabric ... Gown, bodice is lined and boned, constructed with modern sewing techniques, modern gathering has been used in the skirt, historical, hand cartridge pleating is an extra cost.
Ordering
fabric/shipping - 2 to 3 weeks getting in supplies and fabric.
Estimated 10 days construction/sewing time to final
completion
Approximate Delivery Time is 5 to 6 weeks after
payment/order has arrived.
Shipping and handling - USPS Flat Rate $11.60 - $15.60
Dress Fabric suggestions are light weight fabric such as Silk, Silk Taffeta, Taffeta, Batiste, and Light Weight Cottons.
This gown is made of cotton and comes with piping in most seams, bodice linings and boning. Dress opens in front, closures are hook & eyes or buttons (your choice). Each dress is custom made to your specifications.
All
calculations are based on 42/45 in. wide, cotton fabric:
9
yards of main choice fabric (5.50 pr. Yrd.) - $49.50
2 and ½
yards of fabric for bodice lining (3.00 pr. Yrd.) - $7.50
2
and ½ yards of fabric for under sleeves and collar (3.50
pr. Yrd.) - $8.75
Hook
and Eyes - $2.19
Feather boning - $2.79
Piping cord - #24
twisted cotton cord - $1.50
Matching thread for all fabrics
($2.00 ea. Color) - $6.00
Bone buttons for front closure - $5.28
10
shirt or ½ in. buttons for attachable lower sleeves -
$3.60
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Supply
Cost - $87.11
Labor - $140.00
Retail price $227.11 + shipping
Garibaldi/Full Sleeve with cuff (Green) + $12.00
Garibaldi/Full Sleeve with cuff and cap (Red) + $15.00
French Bell Sleeve with Under-sleeves (Blue) + $28.00
Hand sewed, purchased hook & eyes instead of button closures + $38.00
Lace, Ribbon and/or rick-rack, + $24.00
Ribbon Trim only, on skirt hem, $5.00 for each row desired
Adding a “Peter Pan” Collar + $12.00
Adding Crochet Collar + $15.00
Adding Crocheted Necktie + $27.00
Adding skirt lining - $42.00
Adding Skirt Bottom Duster strip + $20.00 (Matching fabric attached to the bottom of the skirt to protect the hemline.)
+$60.00 for hand hemming (gown comes hemmed with a machine blind hem stitch)
+ $350.00 for hand sewed, historic replica, skirt cartridge pleating
You are welcome to purchase your own fabrics and have them shipped to me or I can purchase them for you adding in the extra cost for reproduction fabrics. If you would like to do your own purchasing of fabric and/or supplies I will then give you a fabric credit or credits for all supplies you have purchased for your gown. If you use the supply list given, I only charge for supplies that you do not purchase, labor and shipping remain the same.
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Style
Dated: 1857 -1863
Godey's
1863 Crocheted Collar, Under a “Made” Cotton Collar.
Style Dated: 1850-1860, Pagoda Sleeves with attachable Undersleeves.
Shell Stitch Crochet Collar, Original was found in my Great-Grandmother's things. Actual Date Unknow
Crochet
Collar Pattern, Peterson's Magazine 1864
Style
Dated: 1850-1865, Garibaldi Sleeves.