Fabric: cotton lawn
Haberdasheries:
A confession – I haven’t made many underskirts yet. I think wearing the
right, authentic undergarments under historical clothes is important both for
the right silhouette and posture, and for the right experience. But whereas the
effect of a corset is substantial, you can’t really tell whether there’s an
underskirt underneath a dress or not. And that’s why I’ve never managed to give
them priority. But I always had ‘need to make a WWI underskirt’ at the back of
my mind (and a WW2 one, for that matter!), and now I’ve made
one.
Sorry, I can’t really get the skirt photographed properly, with this
dark winter weather going on! And I did iron it; I always do, it just never
shows :P.
I improvised this pattern. It is a very simple two panel skirt, with
four darts in the back and a drawstring in a tunnel to make the waist
adjustable. Also, I sewed on two hooks and worked two loops.
For the bottom hem I sewed together two kinds of lace, one gathered, both
with a leafy pattern, and added a green ribbon to keep with the theme.
