I FINALLY made Felicity's Blue Dress! (The one that got me into historical costuming!)
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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Felicity's Blue Dress - or Felicity Merriman's Christmas (or Surprise) Dress - is honestly THE costume that got me into historical costuming. In this video, I talk about Felicity, Pleasant Company AKA American Girl Dolls, the plot of Felicity's Surprise, and then of course, I MAKE the dress. I used silk taffeta, linen and a lot of historically accurate sewing (and some historically inaccurate sewing!) in order to make the gown a reality. In particular, I go into the construction of the dress, which I believe was originally an "English gown", also known as a robe a l'anglaise.
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Sewstine reliving her childhood and being absolutely fabulous while narrating it wearing the most iconic dress I have seen 👏🏽
Thank you so much!!
7:39 Given your infectious enthusiasm, we need a deep dive into American Girl and of course making a dress with this fabric.
Thank you!! I think I will! I’m so hooked on all the American girl doll things now!
@@Sewstine yay!!!!!!
@@Sewstine if you want any help, I was both a visual associate and a personal shopper for American Girl as well as an avid collector. I would love to help you out with any information you might need with the history of the company as well as the research that goes into these dolls and their clothes.
I want to be ‘Hates colonisers but helps out bestie who wants to go to the Governor’s Palace’ level of iconic.
😂
I bet you sure do benefit from being in a “colonizers”country though…
You’ve lived my 14yo self’s dream. She and I are both so jealous and in awe of you!
Thank you! Make one and join all of us costumers!
Felicity has always been my favorite doll so I absolutely need to see you make another a Felicity dress!
Thank you! Oh man now I want like 6!
Felicity, Josefina, Kit, and Molly were all my faves growing up.
I'm 100% certain that Ben helped with the dress cuz he LIKED Felicity.
They were totally a ship!
Omg! I shipped them so hard too! And that Felicity saves the day episode!!
They had a bit large of an age gap for me to ship them as a couple, but I did like how close they were. I thought it was almost like Felicity had an older brother, which I liked because I could relate to the way Felicity's parents had such high expectations for her as the eldest child even though her interests didn't match what was considered "useful" at the time and one younger sibling's interests did.
It’s been so cool to watch you and Lady Rebecca make two different (and equally lovely) takes on this dress at the same time!
I've really enjoyed watching Lady Rebecca's progress, so seeing Sewstine making the same dress is super special!
Thinking back, Felicity's Meet Felicity dress is absolutely what got me interested in historical sewing! I keep putting it off, but one day I want to make that, and her riding dress. This is such a stunning homage, you did this dress justice and improved upon it. Swoon!
Omg! I want to make her riding dress too!
OMG, another UA-camr - Lady Rebecca Fashions - did Felicitys blue dress too this week! Lovely project and stunning result!
Man, I'm really late, but I just wanted to say that every time I watch a video on your channel, it feels like walking through a museum of childhood dreams! Everything you make is so beautiful T^T
also, I am deeply sorry for your loss, Elspeth was a very good girl.
I'm Scottish so American Girl wasn't really available to me when I was a kid (seeing as I'm not an American girl), but one of my childhood friends found the website anyway and we used to play the online games together. As a big history nerd I loved all of them, but my favourites were Kit , Felicity, and Kaya! American girl wasn't a big part of my childhood, but this video brought back a lot of fond memories. Thanks Sewstine
Looking back, I can just tell that the historic American Girl dolls were my gateway drug in to the wonderful world of fashion history! This dress is absolutely stunning!
Yes, since you were able to locate the same print from Colonial Williamsburg. Yes, the Meet Felicity dress would be fantastic! Congrats on the Suprise for Felicity's gown completion and reveal, it turned out beautiful, and all that handwork paid off making this gown more historically accurate. Well Done!
Yes yes! Please make another Felicity dress. I am definitely in the category of joining historical costuming from American Girl Dolls, and Felicity was always my favorite :)
I had an idea that I would reclaim my childhood by talking about Nancy Drew who I loved as a child.
I saved for MONTHS to get the $85 I needed for Molly! My parents took pity on me and paid for shipping and tax because 9 year old me didn't know those were a thing. I can't wait to see you do her meet dress and this video may be the final push I need to actually make this dress, it's been on my bucket list for years
I’ve never played much with American Girl but I do remember Barbie, MakeMyScene and Bratz (Passion for Fashion, anyone?) were my gateway into loving fashion.
Yes!! Dolls are definitely gateways!
That dress looks amazing!
I really liked the look of that green outfit in the picture of all Felicity’s outfits!
Sorry for your loss
Thank you! Oh man I also want that riding habit!
This dress is absolutely gorgeous. I've always loved American Girl but didn't really know the history. Thank goodness it got you into historical costuming so we can all learn from your endeavors.
Always appreciate how the outfits balance a mix of what is historically accurate (and in this case doll accurate) and what is pleasing to you.
I do not know much about Felicity since Kirsten (her looped hair) and Samantha (rich girl wardrobe) were more my girls.
Hope the family and other family pets are doing their best with one less dog around since she seemed like a sweetheart when most of the dogs made cameos.
Maybe it’s just me but every Design UA-camr has a chaotic moving story. I mean, idk how you did it especially as you have an extensive workroom.
Oh man mine was chaotic!
I. LOVE. THIS. I started reading the AG books when I was 8 and was instantly obsessed with Samantha (and asked for high button boots every year for Christmas). It absolutely got me into historical fashion. The more I've learned, the more impressed I am by the details that American Girl puts into their line of historical dolls. And if I lived closer, I absolutely would join you for an eighteenth-century tea at the American Girl store!
I would watch an entire series of you making respectful historical adult versions of all the American girl dolls. I didn’t have them as a kid bc they were expensive and watching your happines while educating is wonderful
I didn't know even their undergarments were so accurate! I had Kristen, but she was secondhand and, being a pioneer girl her clothes were very simple. I remember she had bloomers and these cute little socks that looked like wool, but that never led me to believe that Felicity would come with pocket hoops and a corset 😅
I absolutely love this video! Especially the part about reclaiming childhood. That's basically what my whole channel is about!! Once I figure out how to use a sewing machine again, re-making the ballgown I tried to make for Halloween in 2008 is a must!!
I loved Samantha so much as a kid, and I used a hair style that Molly did in one of the books by asking my grandmother to help me do it because of course she knew how. I remember making ice cream like Samantha did in one of the books before I had read it, but afterwards, I wanted to make the same kind she did because it sounded so good. Those books still give me happy memories.
The dress is indeed lovely. What I noticed most however is how much you shine when wearing it, I can tell how much you love it, and congratulate you on fulfilling this sweet dream. Everyone should have the chance to make childhood dreams reality.
this is so pretty ;0; samantha was always my favorite (especially her birthday dress) but i remember buying some felicity dresses just because they were so pretty and i wanted samantha to be a princess sometimes :)
The scene where Felicity's father comes in with the fabric and you see the taffeta in the candlelight lives in my head, rent-free. You matched that blue so *perfectly.* It's the most gorgeous blue.
Love this so much! Can't wait for your "meet" dress Christine! I grew up reading all these books (even after I grew out of them) and the history mysteries and Girls of Many Lands. Also worked at the Boston AG Store for a year and a half during their "beforever" marketing stage for the historical characters, which was interesting to see their marketing team try to appeal more to what they thought might sell ("girly" and bright colors) instead of focusing on creating new historically based products. Although they did do a decent job with research for the 1960s girl Melody Ellison and the focus on motown and detroit.
I am now overcome with the need to have historical fashions in my wardrobe!!!!!! I might not have found costuming through american girl dolls, but I did experience it with my childhood sticker books.Also, it would be really neat to see the meet felicity dress.
What a beautiful gown! I was a Molly girl myself. (I still have her, and all her accessories and clothes that I had when I was a child.) I am sure American Girl influenced my love of history, and specifically historical clothing!
Oh I just love this. American Girls were a delightful part of my kid's childhood, DEFINITELY worth the $82. We had Samantha and Josefina, but I made Kirsten's St. Lucia nightgown so my kid could wear it at school on the feast day (with the crown and tray with Lucia buns). Thanks for this glimpse into your own childhood!
So gorgeous! I would love to see you do any and all felicity gowns! This blue dress with the lace stomacher was my favorite as a kid. I also had her little wooden noah's ark toy from that story. The American Girls historical outfits are all so cool. Addie has a mother who is a seamstress in her story as well and has some really gorgeous dresses. Kirsten's would be so cute done in your housedress style like the ghibli dresses.
omgsh its gorgeous.
It’s also incredible looking back on the movies and seeing how many amazing young actresses got their starts with AG; Shailene Woodley played Felicity in the movie.
Abigail Breslin was Kit, right?
@@bethkrager6529 yep.
The dress turned out beautiful! I was more into the books than the dolls (Josefina, Kaya, and Kirsten were my favorites) and they were absolutely one of things that got me interested in history as a kid
Is it silly the reveal made me tear up a little bit? Just your smile and seeing you get to live a childhood dream is heartwarming.
I think AG was responsible for SO many of us developing a love of historical fashion- I got a hold of an AG catalogue in 1993, in my town in northern Canada, and I was madly in love. I slept with it, I loved it. I was immediately taken with Addy, and her courage, and I wanted her so badly. I talked about it for months, I did research into african americans in the civil war and emancipation era, I researched the history of slavery in Canada and the US. I was 7 years old. My parents saved up like madmen (we were NOT rich), and they ordered her for me, the shipping cost more than the doll did, because Northern Canada. But my mom's a maker, and she always made us holiday outfits. And AG sold the doll clothes patterns! So she bought the patterns, and made Addy's christmas dress out of a black cotton with pink roses, and found a close-enough child's dress pattern which she painstakingly modified to look like Addy's, and made of the same fabric. So there I was on christmas eve, opening my one present for the year, and it was my brave strong Addy- in a dress identical to mine, all wrapped back up like she'd never been touched, so I thought it was MAGIC. Her Meet dress was folded at the bottom of the box. I still have her, and I still make clothes for her, and I absolutely fell in love with every detail of her clothes and her life.
What a lovely story and what a wonderful mom you have.
Agh I love this so much! I absolutely loved the historical AG dolls as a kid, especially Samantha and Felicity. It's my goal to make all of the meet dresses, though I only just started learning to sew so that goal is a long way off. This vid is great motivation to keep practicing!
As a Canadian I never had one of these. Although I've been really into historical costuming videos recently, and then I see a video like those with my name on it and I had to see what was up. I don't find a lot of people with the name Felicity, so it's interesting how many times I find it as a toy, book, or movie character.
As a Canadian Anne of Green Gables (Megan Follows 1980s version) was my childhood introduction to historical fashion, never heard of American Girl dolls until last year when half the costubers I follow suddenly started talking about them. I loved the trim you chose to make, even though it was so time consuming it was absolutely worth it for the finished result. It was really interesting watching this far more historical make after just recently watching Lady Rebecca's more cosplay make. Both dresses are lovely, but I think over all I prefer yours.
I can tell how excited you were talking about this dress, it's awesome when you make your childhood dreams come true
Lovely dress - always love your videos, thought, effort, commitment (and joy & love for the craft)is inspiring. Sending love for the loss of your fur baby.
So many thoughts on this video...
1. I am so sorry for the loss of your dog.
2. That dress is gorgeous.
3. My first experience of historical costuming definitely came from the American Girl books and dolls. I had Samantha and Kaya.
4. Did you see that the newest "historical" American Girl doll will be from 1999? It feels so wrong.
Wow I can relate to this! I adored Felicity growing up and poured over the AG catalogues. My family couldn’t afford the dolls so I never got one, but to this day I wish I had one. I’m 34 😂 Also I wish the hadn’t discontinued Felicity
YES please make the meet felicity dress.
This whole video and dress are just incredible and brought me so much joy. ❤❤
the dress is truly stunning! I really love your 18th century work. I was a little aged out at the time the AG dolls arrived on the scene, but I DID (and still do have ) a my friend Jenny doll that I loved making clothes for when I learned to sew as a kid. it was a Big Deal when I was finally allowed to use my moms antique Singer machine. a beautiful and inspiring video, as always. I'm so sorry about your girl, Elspeth. Forever isn't long enough with our dogs.
Thank you Sewstine! Watching you bring this dress life brought back fond memories of reading the books. I would very much enjoy your take on the Meet Felicity dress!
I believe Cecile was also a black American Girl doll, & her costumes were really beautiful- I can't imagine why they would cut her out...
I have ALWAYS dreamed of making all Addys clothes, all Kirstens and more this is excellent
You’ve brought my childhood to life, I hope you make the other Felicity dress. Your work is beautiful! :)
Ahh more American girl outfits please!! I am back in my ag era reliving all of my childhood nostalgia and I love seeing other people do the same
Thank you!
Yessssss I love this! Felicity's blue dress was always my absolute favorite ❤❤❤❤❤ I would love to see her "meet" dress made, too!
ITS GORGEOUS what a beautiful way to pay homage to what started your passion ❤
Gosh, seeing you wear that finished dress gives me so much joy. The little girl in my heart never would've dreamed such a recreation was possible! I feel very good knowing the American Girl dresses had some historical accuracy! I also loved Felicity. My sister had the Meet Felicity dress (still have it somewhere...). Please make the Meet Felicity dress!
So sad about Elspeth, the loss of a dog is a real loss. I hope her memories bring you joy.
My daughter was born in May 1988, the American Girl catalog was in my mailbox 3 days after I brought her home! LOL Your Felicity gown is absolute perfection as is everything you create.
When my mom was asking for name suggestions for my baby sister I said Samantha because I loved the AG movie, and that became her name! She was more obsessed with American girl than I was! She had multiple dolls and outfits-- although she never got the Samantha doll. Her best friend got Samantha, so she got Nellie so they could be best friends and their dolls could be best friends :')
I hope the years you had with Elspeth were happy ones.
I'm so sorry about Elspeth Millar. :-((( I'm sure you've been a great human to Elspeth and that your dog couldn't have been any happier to be part of your family.
The dress turned out fabulous. You look stunning wearing it! Wishing you all the best all the way from Poland.
Thank you so so much!!! I really appreciate your kind note.
Oh my god, your dog's adorable!
Please make a silk replica for your doll.
I could never afford the dolls, but I did read most of the books. Loved them.
This result could not be more beautiful! I love it. Hope you are settled into a new home. I also watched Lady Rebecca make her version of the dress and enjoyed both yours and hers. Having such different end-visions makes such a difference in the process. Fascinating.
I didnt know felicty has such a tripped out dress. I had elizabth and i lover her dresses but there wasnt as much detail
Oh man- the early Felicity stuff was insane! Her riding habit was also insane!
Amazing! I've also always been obsessed with this dress! Felicity is by far the best American Girl doll
Yes!! Thank you!
8:55 Haha love the bingo card and happy to see Indian representation.
Fun fact: since your Felicity is about as old as mine, that dress really is taffeta! They switched to polyester after Mattel bought out American Girl in 1998. (The quality of a lot of AG things started to go down after that.) Just one more reason the dress was $25 in the early-to-mid 90s.
So happy to see a new dress on the channel again!
THE SCREAM I JUST SCREAMED when I saw this thumbnail 😍😍😍.... I had Felicity when I was a kid and I was OBSESSED with this dress. So excited that you made it!!!!!
Absolutely gorgeous! I have Felicity and her blue dress! Now, I must have her pockets and historically accurate petticoat! Oh, and stays!🙂
*me, squeeing because I loved this dress, too* ohmigod, I remember this! I loved this dress- wait a sec, I never saw those underpinnings in the catalog. And it certainly wasn’t in the pattern set (which I also had, because my mom could sew and found it cheaper than buying the dresses). HOW DID I MISS THEM?!?! Elementary school me would have been ALL OVER those!! Ah well. The dress looked pretty solid without them, I suppose.
Magnificent. Love how you explain and demonstrate the process. Beautiful history and great dress. Yum.
What a beautiful job you did creating this dress! Love it! And your enthusiasm!
This made me so nostalgic. Both my girls loved the American Girls. I made this same Felicity dress for my younger one when she was 10. (maybe a little simpler🙂). We even took them to Williamsburg when they, briefly, did a Felicity tour there.
Also, when Mattel bought the Pleasant Company in 1998 and changed the dolls' appearance (looked like Bratz dolls👎) and relegated the historic dolls to the back of the catalogue, my oldest wrote a scathing letter to the company (she was 11). I was so proud of her!
I had never seen the dress they offered girls to go with the doll's dress. Disappointing, indeed. BEAUTIFUL results, on this. Simply AMAZING!
The dress turned out amazing! 80s kid, but never heard of American Girl until the early 2000s when i saw a couple of the movies made and aired on Hallmark Channel. I do enjoy seeing how accurate the designers were with the period garb for each doll, and while it’s not what got me interested in historical fashion (movies did that lol), it does add to the interest in specific time periods :)
Also, hugs to you regarding the fur baby. It’s always hard, but she’ll always be with you! ❤
That is an absolutely lovely dress. Well done.
Deepest condolences for loosing your snuggly friend. It's never easy.
- Cathy (&, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi
If I had a nickel for every UA-cam sewing channel I watch that has put out a "recreate Felicity's blue gown" video in the past 30 days, I'd have 2 nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's interesting (not weird!) that it's happened twice. Your dress is gorgeous! The other channel preferred the pink ribbon stomacher but like you, I've always loved the white lace one more.
I'm so sorry about your dog, Elspeth.
aww, elspeth!! :(_ love the new king charles spaniel baby--he is adorbz! this video was soooooo satisfying! thank you for validating that it's never too late to enjoy your childhood! i play dress up almost weekly at our local dances. :D oh, and thanks for highlighting angela clayton--i've been watching her since i started watching youtube in 2014-2015. she was the first one i subscribed to, and she brought me to all of you!
They are expensive. I remember my mom looked at how much American Girl dolls cost and was like Absolutely Not. "You could get five Barbies for that amount of money and you don't even play with your Barbies that much" 😆. I read all the books though.
ALSO: really love that van Gogh dress
Felicity (the only one with a horse! And I am at my very core a Horse Person), specifically her riding habit, was always my favorite but, Kirsten and Samantha were up there too.
Watching everyone make their American Girl dresses makes me want to actually make Felicity's riding habit like I've been meaning to do for YEARS. The question being, will my horses let me near them in it? Probably not but, we will persevere none-the-less.
My daughter started out with Addy, but went on to acquire “several” others. We still have them, and nearly all the accessories, packed lovingly way for her children (maybe-it’s still an open question if she’ll be willing to share them).
Christine, this dress is beautiful! It just looks so lovely. I kind of want you to make ALL the dresses! I used to dream over the American Girl catalog and wish I could get every doll, every outfit. The whole line was AMAZING! By the way, was that dog accessory period accurate?
And my condolences on the loss of your beautiful white dog. She looked so pretty and so soft and so loving.
I loved American Girl dolls!! I always wanted one, I always felt especially drawn to Josefina and Kya’s storylines, but Felicity and Samantha had the BEST dresses!
My grandmother bought me the Samantha doll and then, when Pleasant Company began creating the 'make your own American Girl' dolls, another doll. I still have all the Samantha books and the original American Girl cookbook as well as both dolls. They were expensive but absolutely wonderful.
YES SOMEONE DID IT AAAAA GOOD JOB
over TWO MONTHS to get your heat fixed??? That's awful! Did they need to replumb the entire house??
I had gotten Felicity for my daughter years back. She's mine now (heh heh). When daughter was in elementary school, had Halloween parade, kids had to dress as a book character, we choose Felicity. Made a Colonial dress for my daughter and made a matching one for Felicity doll (out of curtains mind you). For doll used the PC original patterns. They both came out pretty good! It was also fun. Love the dress you made, please make more of Felicity's outfits and make some for your doll as well!
I loved American Girl growing up and wanted all the dolls and accessories and costumes and cookbooks and craftbooks and paperdolls but now I identify as a guy and I don't think dressing like an American Girl is in the cards for me anymore, alas. But I'll still try and collect the dolls and crafting stuff 😊
I just loved your video! I was a first time mother with a newborn when the American girl dolls came out! I ended up having 2 boys, so what the heck, I bought my own doll in 1992 which was Molly. I started sewing doll clothes and selling them at local craft fairs! I ended up going back to the work full-time after 10 years at home, playing with dolls and didn’t have time to sew doll clothes anymore. Recently, I have been sewing again after retiring! I have always adored these dolls! Thanks for your fun video! I was blown away by the fact that you did so much hand stitching on that giant dress! Also got a kick out of you putting your cell phone in the pocket at the end! 😆
American Girl forever!!! I got Molly for Christmas 1989. Pleasant Company years were the best.
Make all the adult American Girl clothes you want! I'm fond of the Felicity learns a lesson jacket & petticoat if you are sticking to Felicity :D
ETA: It's funny, I always liked the pink stomacher better
Wow, u put in some work! I went to school for apparel design at a state uni and sometimes the theater majors would come use our sewing machines, so I got to see how much work history nerds put in. They were always super talented & excellent sewers, like you. They really put some classmates to shame with their skills. 😹It looks amazing. Felicity was my fave too, second was probably Samantha. We were just learning about colonial times in school when I was first introduced to American Girl. I loved how realistic & accurate it all was too, but I never owned one of the actual dolls. Your Van Gogh dress is sweet and the green dress you have on is beautiful too! Also ur dogs are soooo cute! Sub’d 😹🐾
go for tea or dinner at the American Girl Doll Restaurant! its surprisingly reasonably priced for a prixe fix meal in Rockefeller Center (or NYC for that matter). I am going for my birthday to fulfill my childhood wishes
Oh lissie. What a walk down memory lane. Felicity was my favorite AG. And this very dress I wanted so badly as a little girl.
Just an example of how obsessed I was, I got to go to two AG fashion shows in Tampa and to AG place in Chicago.
Now my lissie and Samantha are my daughter's.
Thank you for another lovely 'making of' video. I especially appreciated your comment about the historical accuracy of cutting the fabric to 20". I agree, I think that if people making clothing in any historical time had had access to all the modern sewing technology they would have happily used it. If I had any computer programming skill, I'd develop historical accurate stiches on a specialty sewing machine!
Gorgeous!!! I adore Lissie's dress. I wanted one so badly when I finished reading her collection. If I were to ever be able to make one, I would probably never take it off lol
By the way, I am living for the dress you're wearing in the opening 🌙⭐☀️
My daughters had AG dolls; Addie and Molly. Although I was as always partial to Barbie, I loved the history they portrayed. That's why I had to laugh when you put your cell phone in your "historically accurate pockets!". I am in awe of your talent and enthusiasm and your attention to details! And yes, please make another dress with the beautiful Williamsburg fabric!
Your Felicity gown is so gorgeous. Gideon, Elspeth and Knightley must love it too. Why do I see all four of you on your settee/sofa with Knightley in your lap and Elspeth and Gideon on each side. Please make the Meet Felicity dress and I was a bit too old when they came out but my favourite books were the Felicity and Samantha series. BTW Malcolm is getting so big.