Making My Lavender Jacket - Part 1 Photo by Yuval BG , of Ido Peretz taking pics of me I’m making my first 18th century outside garment- all my underpinnings are ready- Yay! I was going to make a gown, but found out that I don’t have enough fabric for that, and I’m still on a stash-busting roll. So jacket it is. I’m using a beautiful lavender dupioni (I know it wasn’t really used in the 18 th century, please don’t hit me! - though probably actually more feasible for a jacket than a gown) which is synthetic (again, don’t kill me please) And white linen for the lining. I’m going to use the lining as a mock-up, and hope that works well enough. I’m using the instructions from the “ American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Dressmaking ” book, the Italian Gown, with help from a bunch of internet tutorials to adapt it to be a jacket. This is going to be my main inspiration: https://signoftheredsquirrel.wordpress.com/2017/09/21/top-7-looks-4-annalises-raspberry-c...
