Lessons Learned - Titanic
With every project we took on we learned new information and gained new skills.
Join us in learning about some of our discoveries and experiments!
Patterns & Supplies
Websites for Patterns / Supplies
The hardest part of this project was finding the costume patterns. Each outfit used a combination of patterns from different sources, with some pieces we just had to figure out and draft on our own. Here's some of the resources we used:
Truly Victorian - trulyvictorian.info
They have a wide range of sizes and time frames they produce patterns for.
Fashion Archaeologist - Etsy shop
She carries several time frames but more limited sizes
Specific Patterns Used
Catherine Hershey
As she would have been a first class passenger she would have been wearing the most up to date fashions so we chose patterns from as close to then as possible.
Truly Victorian - Corset pattern TVE13
Fashion Archaeologist - 1912 Ladies Combination Slip
Fashion Archaeologist - 1912-A-005 Directoire Jacket
Fashion Archaeologist - 1912 -A-64 Skirt
Violet Jessop & Laura "Mabel" Francatelli
As they were working class ladies they would have most likely been a bit behind the "fashionable" ladies so we used patterns from a bit earlier than 1912.
Truly Victorian - Shirtwaist TV494
Truly Victorian - Walking Skirt TV291
Truly Victorian - Petticoat TV170
Truly Victorian - Corset TV110
Aprons
Violet Jessop - we drafted the pattern off of the picture of her
Laura Francatelli - we drafted the pattern off of a picture on the National Museums of
Liverpool website which they list as having been worn by her