Art Deco wardrobe planning
This year, for the first time ever, I’m going to Napier’s Art Deco Weekend. I’ve tried to go in the past, but things have come up. But this year, unless something happens in the next 5 days, it’s actually happening! Three days of 30s clothes and dancing! Being crazy and ambitious I’m planning a specific wardrobe. It’s based around the idea of what a well-off girl from Hawaii would have taken for a trip to Napier to visit family in early 1933*. So all my clothes will be from the very end of the 1920s and the early 30s. I’m going with a red, white & blue theme, to organise my design and keep my accessories down. I’ve got a pinterest board with inspiration. But don’t think it will be all patriotic and nautical red, white & blue! Here is my fabric pile: I’m hoping to make two evening dresses, one out of white lace with black lace that looks like this: With this: And one of blue lace in a cut very similar to …