As someone who makes doll clothes, this was a fun way to see how differently people clothes are put together in comparison. Doll clothes definitely have a lot of things that make zero sense on people clothes lol Also I'm glad I'm not the only one that parrots my cats 😂
When this barbie came out my mom made a boy version of this outfit for me. Basically she considered the odd front part the front side closure. It made more sense to her. So I had a gold coat over a fancy fabric pants. :}
To cut fauxfur! Use a knife on the back of the backing fabric, just cutting thru the fabric and not the fur. This makes MUCH less of a mess! I would go with the wig that looks better on you. What will Dora do for midnight entertainment if you catch her kitchen mouse?!
This fur rips on grain, which is super awesome. And kitchen mouse has now moved into my office. The good thing is, it's an isolated room, so I'm letting it be in there with no food and tons of mouse traps everywhere.
If you had plastic legs you could totally do a mesh back on your underskirt, and itchy seams would be someone elses problems. This is going to be amazing!!
The headpiece could be colored jingle bells. There's usually picks in the floral department with jingle bells and holly. Lots of fun if you don't mind extra noise.
This is exciting. My mom collected Barbie dolls and had all the holiday Barbies through 2001 (she died in 2002). I’m not a big Barbie fan but this one was one of my faves.
Am I the only one who did the sharp intake of breath when she said Lame! I had visions of everyone everywhere doing that!! Oh wow that bodice looks amazing!! Thank you for the Dora update!
Oh this looks SO FANTASTIC! And as someone who had at one point every Barbie from 1986-2000, don't worry. You didn't effect the value as most of these aren't worth much more than when they were bought for me. Glad she makes you happy and is helping you figure out the structure.
I'd have done front fastening and have the jeweled front plastron hide it. For the seam on the sleeves, use seam binding on the section that bugs you. Def on the separate underskirt. try a bit of cord through the hole in the zip. Never too much lame lol
If those sleeves are still itchy, get a pair of tights and cut the tops and bottoms off and use each leg as a sleeve underneath. And someone else mentioned a ribbon but a length of embroidery floss threaded through the zipper pull works great!
I love the work you are doing to reclaim feeling like a princess and being pretty. So many plus size women and girls (including me) grew up feelling like you can't dress like this have to hide and not stand out and are actively excluded from the clothes that fit! So let's make it for ourselves :)
I have thought about doing some of Holiday Barbie's outfits. I'm glad to find that gold lame is awful, and it wasn't just me who came across some really crappy lame. Can't wait for the rest! YAY! PANIC SEWING!! 😆
Dora! Thank you for the Dora footage! The part where you and she mwwwwrrrrr at each other is 100% adorable. One of the things I love most about your videos is the time you take on fitting the mock ups. It’s so important and seeing the time and care you take for an excellent fit is so encouraging. Yesterday I was altering a thrift store bought blouse to fit and I think I had it on and off myself a dozen times before I had the fit I wanted. It’s fun to see someone else take the same time and attention to fitting. Hugs to Dora!
Put a length of string/yarn/ribbon through the top of the zipper so you can pull it up, then you can slide it out once it's at the top where you can reach it.
That is so cool; the way you just look at Barbie and then sew the thing! Solution for the bra straps; sew a very thin satin ribbon to the shoulder seam then sew a snap to the neck end of the ribbon. Take the ribbon and slip it under your bra strap and snap it to the shoulder seam. I cannot wait to see the finished dress; you're going to be so shiny! ☺ xoxo's Sandie
That's exactly what my mom & I used to do for weird necklines on my tops back in the 80s! (Those suuuuper-wide boatneck openings were no friend to anybody who needed supportive bras.) I can't tell you how many snaps/ribbons I made/attached. I'm actually threatening to do it again to a couple of tops I've bought recently (can I have a word with the designers who decided those things should come back in fashion?), but I'm also nearly 50 & mostly don't care if my straps show. LOL
This is so fun! You are a delight and I am dizzy with your bravery! (I found, in one instance of failure to finish zipping, that the valet parking guy was happy to finish it up for me. I was a little hesitant to ask, but that day had been one of back to back awkward situations, so, it was just one more!)
That is the goldest dress I’ve ever seen! I can’t wait to see how you do all the jewelled and baubles part. Its amazing how you just figure things out, but it Can’t be easy to sew that fabric. Barbies were dull in my day but my girls adored them, games all over the house and making them little clothes for them. My oldest, she would have killed for that dress…still might. Can’t wait. Hello Dora, chatty lass, cat live always comes first. And who doesn’t have weird Nima’s in their house of they have cats. my cutest was a rabbit, herded I guess because it was huge and uninsured. A large and very angry rat the least appealing xxx😸
That is going to be a beautiful gown! I always thought that that Barbie was wearing a fur trimmed coat over a lace dress? I thought the front buttons were meant to be functional and the back snaps were for practicality- to make it look right doll sized.
A quick & dirty last-minute fix for the itchy parts of those inside sleeve seams might be to wear large bandaids on your arms, right where the seams irritate your skin. I've done something similar on my feet when the inside seams of new shoes rub my feet. (If you have the time, though, a soft non-itchy lining should work even better.)
I always like the trick of putting the hook part of a wire hanger thru the zipper pull (or tape it on) and then using the large part as aa much better handle to completely pull up the zip. You can even flip 🙃 it upside down and pull it up like a exercise curl, to get it all the way up the back.
@@LadyRebeccaFashions a common cosplay hack is to use monofilament, since it’s clear and can be tucked into the top of the costume once the zipper is in place.
@@ReneePowell This was what I was going to suggest as well. You can either just double it through the pull and then let go of one end and pull it through (so that it's removed entirely) once the zipper is closed, or make it permanent and tuck it into the neckline as you suggest. Even if it comes loose it doesn't show from more than a foot or so away.
I plan on making the 1999 Holiday Barbie dress, or as they call the New Millennium Barbie, for a potential Christmas Ball if ever I'm invited to one or the conventions that happen in October since I need something fabulous to wear to the first day to bring holiday cheer while I'm dressed in Velvet and Jacquard fabrics which are hot.
You are so adorable, this is going to be beautiful. Hope your trip was wonderful and so happy Dora is getting better. Love Lion too.so cute. Your hair is getting longer, really cute. There are 3 of you lovelies that I watch all the time on UA-cam and you all make my day. Keep up the good work.
What a stellar job you are doing! This video was delightful to watch I, too, loved the Dora footage. Have you made clothes for her? Bernadette Banner did a video of Cesario modeling Halloween costumes. Gunnar Deathridge shows how to cut faux fur in his Halloween costumes for a family video My vote is for a long satin ribbon zipper pull, if the eye of the zipper pull is too small for the ribbon, you can use a safety pin or, maybe a soft coated twist tie to make a bigger aperture. I make my own extended pull, because I like the independence; I use about two yards of ribbon, with a lark's head knot in the zipper eye (maybe yellow 1/4" satin ribbon from Jo Ann's.) Then, when it's zipped, tuck the ribbon it into the top/back of the dress. I second colored bells for the headband. Dollar tree may have some, and they ship. I advocate sewing something over or taping the seams where they itch. Alternately, the sleeves of a long t shirt may work. I loved the no-music, no speed cutting... but that is probably just me & a few others.
I am feeling so high watching this video! Those sleeves (the puffy parts) are so gorgeous!!!! This will look amazing on you once all the decoration is on!!!! *chefs kiss*
Wow! That's coming together really well. We used to have Christmas tree decorations that were ropes of beads just like in her headdress so maybe a tree decorations store rather than a sewing one?
For the headband you could try to see if you can find one ore two beaded/plastic garlands to twist together and wire to a headband. You could use it for the earrings too.
For the Red "Buttons" Doen the front you can find Costume Jewlery brouches! A geometric round-shaped or a flower shaped one would look very nice! (I interpret the scale of the dress to mean it would open CF but barbie size uses back closers) You can move the Zipper to the sideseam because the neckline is large enough to fit you head, that way you can get in and out without help. Also to keep the neckline from streaching out so much you should use a stay stitch. It looks like it has streched out one you & you can spend all day chasing the stretch.
The gray sweater & skirt for the opening is really cute. I am not a seamstress by any stretch, I think the way I make doll close would cause someone like Bernadette Banner to have the vapors! lol
Glad to hear Dora is doing better💜 the dress is looking so good, you have done a really good job in translating a doll dress to a human dress👍 and I can't wait for all the rest of your holiday projects 🎅🏻🎄🎁
Ok awesome! I just had to look for the other years. I love my own year, 89, and I love 1996 as well. I hope you let us see pictures of the other dresses made. You would be smart to make the under part it's own skirt for sure. You could have also bejewled the sequins part like you did Elsa.
I can’t wait to see how yours turns out your doing great so far! And I can’t wait to see everyone else’s dresses too, I wonder if anyone will do the 1997 ribbon dress 🤔
Lady Rebecca, try threading a piece of ribbon through the zip tag it helps give u longer reach to zip up ur dresses when u r on ur own. Oh love the new outfit.
Oh, the eternal mouse struggle! My youngest kitty has started bringing things in again. She brings them in live...loses them and then promptly loses interest. I *think* we've got none in the house at the moment...but only time will tell!
That dress looks awesome as it is already! To make the wig look better on you, you need to tone the red out of your eyebrows, make them taupe, ash grey. Use blue eyeshadow and white powder for your face. You have very strong pink skin tones and that needs to be made paler, think vampire.
Whem doing by my self a bodice I pin the sides to the corset, to at least makes sure that the fitting from the front is correct and the back does not affects the from bc is pulling maybe weird or not pulling at all cause is not close!
You could put a length of cotton through the zip pull then whoosh you have your back zipped up. So glad Dora is getting better, try toffee or chocolate or peanut butter in the mouse traps. We have a similar problem. If you catch them you need to take them at least 2 miles away so they don't come back. I caught 11 in one night in my utility room. They went into a small pet carrier and were set free in a wood far far away. Best wishes xx
I feel like the underskirt could just be done as tie-around apron skirt, rather than as an attached part of the dress. Go real old school with it and just don't attach it at all, like another petticoat
Not sure if you’ve bought different fur or decided to go with the one you showed here, but I really like Mendel’s. They’re based in San Francisco and have a wide range of fake fur. If you were to update the costume with new fur in the future, I’d go through them. I have found that ordering swatches first was the best way to go, because I could actually touch and manipulate the fur to get a feel for density, softness, and drape.
Should work nicely. Used fake fur wedding boasto trim a santa girls masquerade dress for masquerade dance ones. Horrible to sew in due to fake fur all over the place and found that for years. But looks great
I am not sure if you have done the underskirt yet but you maybe able to attach it to elastic and have it as a separate skirt, not attached to the over skirt at all. You were worried about the stitches showing through the over skirt. Also if you want to attach it to the over skirt, you might try hand stitching it to the bottom layers of the over skirt instead of through all layers. I hope this made sense, I ramble sometimes lol.
I just found a pin of this Barbie in my chaos drawer! Dress is lovely, but the eyes of the pin are kinda scary. Probably what landed her in the chaos drawer.
Ok I love this, however if I had any say the Holiday Barbie I would do is 1991, my absolute favorite, second choice would be 1990 lol, which is weird cuz I'm not a fan of pink
It might be too late by now, but! If you think the wig colour looks wrong on your face, try changing your eyebrow colour a bit. Your current colour is pretty warm and strong, which looks great on your everyday face. The wig might go better with someone a little more on the cooler side. Or not! It looks like a difficult colour to coordinate with. When I wore my hair pale blonde I actually used a kind of greyish beige, which sounds horrible but worked better than any browns I had. Mind you, I've got fairly thin brows. Meanwhile, the Barbie dress is very pretty so far. I particularly love the front skirt bit.
Too bad you don't live in Michigan .There's a cool Xmas store in Frankenmuth called Bronners. I bet you could find decortive things for your dress there.🎄
"At JoAnn's, I found gold lame" *instinctual, preternatural hiss* KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! (flashbacks to applique pieces falling apart as I cut them out... which would have been prevented if I cut them with a sawdering iron, effectively using fire on it)
I'm going to make the 1994 Holiday Barbie dress in a different color using pink and light blue satin fabric for Twas the night before Christmas 50th anniversary on December 8th 2024. It is going to be a lot more similar than that.
For the annoying scratchy seam in the sleeve : Serge it. The lamae will be incased and you won't feel it. You won't be able to open the seam, but I don't feel like it's that important on sleeves.
Hear me out. I think your back bodice issue is because you have an upright posture. I often have to fold the darts out of the back of McCalls and Butterick patterns to get them to fit correctly or make giant CB seams. I actually prefer princess seamed backs so I can distribute the excess over more seamlines for a better fit. Voice training and choir singing coaches you to have a very distinctive posture.
I really feel the need to gush. I love the bodice 😍 the gold is fabulous! Over the top Barbie in all the best ways. I look forward to seeing the final results. If your bra straps keep showing you could make little loops to attach the bra to the inside shoulders of the dress. They are my favorite part of many wide necked blouses 🙂
Yeah, I got that Barbie new back then. It was cool, and my Mom was trying to switch my interests from stuffed animals. It didn’t work. I was in high school with a room stuffed with stuffed animals and a few Barbies. I sold the Barbies in college.
feel free to alter the barbie gown , her measurements if they were on a real PERSON or kens are so unrealistic , so no i think you made the right call with the bodice and the cut of it , you did good . besides if barbie were a real person , she'd fall over a group i am in actually calculated her and kens measurements to human scale and its freakishly impossible and it makes you laugh because neither of them could stand up straight or do anything if they were real ...yes us doll collectors calculate most dolls to human size porportions and the calculations make you laugh so hard . , its a gorgeous gown on you it really is and i wish you could use your own hair instead of a wig , because , they do have red head barbies and they are the most beautiful in the collection . And rare . I love seeing your videos and i look forward to many many more
OMG!!!!! That gold mesh is what I used on my Princess Tiana dress.
As someone who makes doll clothes, this was a fun way to see how differently people clothes are put together in comparison. Doll clothes definitely have a lot of things that make zero sense on people clothes lol
Also I'm glad I'm not the only one that parrots my cats 😂
When this barbie came out my mom made a boy version of this outfit for me. Basically she considered the odd front part the front side closure. It made more sense to her. So I had a gold coat over a fancy fabric pants. :}
Your mother is A Boss! 🦋💛👏🏼
@@rd6203 Yesss! Boss!
That's awesome !!! I bet you looked grand. That could be a cool sewing project a Ken version of a the holiday Barbie garment.🕺
To cut fauxfur! Use a knife on the back of the backing fabric, just cutting thru the fabric and not the fur. This makes MUCH less of a mess!
I would go with the wig that looks better on you.
What will Dora do for midnight entertainment if you catch her kitchen mouse?!
This fur rips on grain, which is super awesome.
And kitchen mouse has now moved into my office. The good thing is, it's an isolated room, so I'm letting it be in there with no food and tons of mouse traps everywhere.
My 80’s childhood dreams come true! It’s so 80’s Disney princess, I could cry!
If you had plastic legs you could totally do a mesh back on your underskirt, and itchy seams would be someone elses problems. This is going to be amazing!!
😆😅🤣😂
Omg still laughing
You made my day😁
The headpiece could be colored jingle bells. There's usually picks in the floral department with jingle bells and holly. Lots of fun if you don't mind extra noise.
You could silence them, pull out the clapper, or glue in place.
This is exciting. My mom collected Barbie dolls and had all the holiday Barbies through 2001 (she died in 2002). I’m not a big Barbie fan but this one was one of my faves.
Am I the only one who did the sharp intake of breath when she said Lame! I had visions of everyone everywhere doing that!!
Oh wow that bodice looks amazing!!
Thank you for the Dora update!
Oh this looks SO FANTASTIC! And as someone who had at one point every Barbie from 1986-2000, don't worry. You didn't effect the value as most of these aren't worth much more than when they were bought for me. Glad she makes you happy and is helping you figure out the structure.
I'd have done front fastening and have the jeweled front plastron hide it. For the seam on the sleeves, use seam binding on the section that bugs you. Def on the separate underskirt. try a bit of cord through the hole in the zip. Never too much lame lol
If those sleeves are still itchy, get a pair of tights and cut the tops and bottoms off and use each leg as a sleeve underneath. And someone else mentioned a ribbon but a length of embroidery floss threaded through the zipper pull works great!
I love the work you are doing to reclaim feeling like a princess and being pretty. So many plus size women and girls (including me) grew up feelling like you can't dress like this have to hide and not stand out and are actively excluded from the clothes that fit! So let's make it for ourselves :)
I have thought about doing some of Holiday Barbie's outfits. I'm glad to find that gold lame is awful, and it wasn't just me who came across some really crappy lame. Can't wait for the rest! YAY! PANIC SEWING!! 😆
Dora! Thank you for the Dora footage! The part where you and she mwwwwrrrrr at each other is 100% adorable. One of the things I love most about your videos is the time you take on fitting the mock ups. It’s so important and seeing the time and care you take for an excellent fit is so encouraging. Yesterday I was altering a thrift store bought blouse to fit and I think I had it on and off myself a dozen times before I had the fit I wanted. It’s fun to see someone else take the same time and attention to fitting. Hugs to Dora!
Put a length of string/yarn/ribbon through the top of the zipper so you can pull it up, then you can slide it out once it's at the top where you can reach it.
That is so cool; the way you just look at Barbie and then sew the thing! Solution for the bra straps; sew a very thin satin ribbon to the shoulder seam then sew a snap to the neck end of the ribbon. Take the ribbon and slip it under your bra strap and snap it to the shoulder seam. I cannot wait to see the finished dress; you're going to be so shiny! ☺
xoxo's Sandie
That's exactly what my mom & I used to do for weird necklines on my tops back in the 80s! (Those suuuuper-wide boatneck openings were no friend to anybody who needed supportive bras.) I can't tell you how many snaps/ribbons I made/attached. I'm actually threatening to do it again to a couple of tops I've bought recently (can I have a word with the designers who decided those things should come back in fashion?), but I'm also nearly 50 & mostly don't care if my straps show. LOL
Good idea! If I have time I will add those. And thanks!
@@LadyRebeccaFashions Clear bra straps! available on Amazon and probably lots of other places.
This is so fun! You are a delight and I am dizzy with your bravery! (I found, in one instance of failure to finish zipping, that the valet parking guy was happy to finish it up for me. I was a little hesitant to ask, but that day had been one of back to back awkward situations, so, it was just one more!)
That is the goldest dress I’ve ever seen! I can’t wait to see how you do all the jewelled and baubles part. Its amazing how you just figure things out, but it
Can’t be easy to sew that fabric. Barbies were dull in my day but my girls adored them, games all over the house and making them little clothes for them. My oldest, she would have killed for that dress…still might. Can’t wait. Hello Dora, chatty lass, cat live always comes first. And who doesn’t have weird Nima’s in their house of they have cats. my cutest was a rabbit, herded I guess because it was huge and uninsured. A large and very angry rat the least appealing xxx😸
That is going to be a beautiful gown! I always thought that that Barbie was wearing a fur trimmed coat over a lace dress? I thought the front buttons were meant to be functional and the back snaps were for practicality- to make it look right doll sized.
Yeah, I also thought this was a fur coat over a dress. Her version is looking lovely anyway though!
A quick & dirty last-minute fix for the itchy parts of those inside sleeve seams might be to wear large bandaids on your arms, right where the seams irritate your skin. I've done something similar on my feet when the inside seams of new shoes rub my feet. (If you have the time, though, a soft non-itchy lining should work even better.)
Or get wound tape (the stuff you use to attach gauze) and cover the seam with tape.
That skin safe tape athletes use on strained muscles, it's wide
@@svenjaj.3520 This was my immediate thought, and it won't rip off all of your body hair when you take it off!
As a nurse I can confirm that paper medical tapes are great for hemming pants as well 😉
@@daniellewrightsman6573 I put the tape on the garment, not on my skin. I have issues with adhesives (glow in the dark redhead with dermatitis).
You look lovely in gold lame with a princess line bodice!
You are intrepid! Sewing that thing out of lame! It’s fabulous and I’m so glad you are having fun. It’s going to be dazzling with the fur!
Thank you! Flat lining the lamè really helps.
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Depending on the scale you can find, mini Christmas ornaments threaded onto a ribbon may work for the headband!
I always like the trick of putting the hook part of a wire hanger thru the zipper pull (or tape it on) and then using the large part as aa much better handle to completely pull up the zip. You can even flip 🙃 it upside down and pull it up like a exercise curl, to get it all the way up the back.
That sounds dangerous!
I wouldn't risk your fabric. Try tying a ribbon to the zipper pull, maybe.
@@nixhixx I did actually wind up using a ribbon after that first time.
@@LadyRebeccaFashions a common cosplay hack is to use monofilament, since it’s clear and can be tucked into the top of the costume once the zipper is in place.
@@ReneePowell This was what I was going to suggest as well. You can either just double it through the pull and then let go of one end and pull it through (so that it's removed entirely) once the zipper is closed, or make it permanent and tuck it into the neckline as you suggest. Even if it comes loose it doesn't show from more than a foot or so away.
OMG, I had this Barbie as a kid, and I loved it so much! This is glorious!
I'm 9 years older than you, and I had the Holiday Barbies from 1989, 1990, and 1991. I didn't even like or play with Barbies, but I liked the dresses.
Oooh this Barbie has medieval sleeves, idk why the had the sleeve seam there back in the day, but for so,e reason they did
I have that exact gold fabric. I don’t know what I’m going to do with it, but I have it. 😂
Well done, Ms. Rebecca! I can’t wait to see the end result.
I plan on making the 1999 Holiday Barbie dress, or as they call the New Millennium Barbie, for a potential Christmas Ball if ever I'm invited to one or the conventions that happen in October since I need something fabulous to wear to the first day to bring holiday cheer while I'm dressed in Velvet and Jacquard fabrics which are hot.
You are so adorable, this is going to be beautiful. Hope your trip was wonderful and so happy Dora is getting better. Love Lion too.so cute. Your hair is getting longer, really cute. There are 3 of you lovelies that I watch all the time on UA-cam and you all make my day. Keep up the good work.
I love how your cat is listening to your tutorial just like the rest of us!
What a stellar job you are doing!
This video was delightful to watch
I, too, loved the Dora footage.
Have you made clothes for her?
Bernadette Banner did a video of Cesario modeling Halloween costumes.
Gunnar Deathridge shows how to cut faux fur in his Halloween costumes for a family video
My vote is for a long satin ribbon zipper pull, if the eye of the zipper pull is too small for the ribbon, you can use a safety pin or, maybe a soft coated twist tie to make a bigger aperture. I make my own extended pull, because I like the independence; I use about two yards of ribbon, with a lark's head knot in the zipper eye (maybe yellow 1/4" satin ribbon from Jo Ann's.) Then, when it's zipped, tuck the ribbon it into the top/back of the dress.
I second colored bells for the headband. Dollar tree may have some, and they ship.
I advocate sewing something over or taping the seams where they itch. Alternately, the sleeves of a long t shirt may work.
I loved the no-music, no speed cutting... but that is probably just me & a few others.
Thank you! I haven't made costumes for Dora, as she would hate wearing them. It's tempting to make some for Lion though!
I am in love with this project. Will be watching/ listening to part 2 on my drive home today!
I am feeling so high watching this video! Those sleeves (the puffy parts) are so gorgeous!!!! This will look amazing on you once all the decoration is on!!!! *chefs kiss*
Lame and stretch satin are the absolute worst. You are a very ambitious woman. It looks great so far.
Wow! That's coming together really well. We used to have Christmas tree decorations that were ropes of beads just like in her headdress so maybe a tree decorations store rather than a sewing one?
What about attaching a safety pin to a ribbon and then hooking the pen to the zipper pull to help pull it up?
I vote that trim is a no go too. Everything is looking great.
I'm glad your beautiful cat is feeling better.
You are very brave to make a lame' dress in a week...
Awww! Your kitty is a Cutie-Pie! 🐱
Hello fellow 1988 baby! Love the dress, it's looking gorgeous! Looking forward to seeing the completed costume :)
For the headband you could try to see if you can find one ore two beaded/plastic garlands to twist together and wire to a headband. You could use it for the earrings too.
That's exactly what I wound up doing, though skipping the glueing to a headband part. You'll see in next week's video. 😉
For the Red "Buttons" Doen the front you can find Costume Jewlery brouches! A geometric round-shaped or a flower shaped one would look very nice! (I interpret the scale of the dress to mean it would open CF but barbie size uses back closers)
You can move the Zipper to the sideseam because the neckline is large enough to fit you head, that way you can get in and out without help.
Also to keep the neckline from streaching out so much you should use a stay stitch. It looks like it has streched out one you & you can spend all day chasing the stretch.
The gray sweater & skirt for the opening is really cute. I am not a seamstress by any stretch, I think the way I make doll close would cause someone like Bernadette Banner to have the vapors! lol
I honestly love this dress!! And I can't wait for the panic sewing next time!! ❤
You have managed to a gaudy gown look elegant! KUDOS!
I like this! I think it's going to be pretty amazing!
Looks beautiful, I used to put a small piece of string through the zip pull,to help when zipping up difficult zips by myself
OMG!! LOVE!! Can't wait!!! 💎💓
Lovely gown!!! ♥️🎄💚
Glad to hear Dora is doing better💜 the dress is looking so good, you have done a really good job in translating a doll dress to a human dress👍 and I can't wait for all the rest of your holiday projects 🎅🏻🎄🎁
Ok awesome! I just had to look for the other years. I love my own year, 89, and I love 1996 as well. I hope you let us see pictures of the other dresses made. You would be smart to make the under part it's own skirt for sure. You could have also bejewled the sequins part like you did Elsa.
Getting really Nice!
Wow, this is amazing. You make that fabric work!
Yeah!! December 1994 was when I was born 👍👍
Oooh and the Sunday of the con is my exact birthdaaaaay
And also that is such a fun dress!
I can’t wait to see how yours turns out your doing great so far! And I can’t wait to see everyone else’s dresses too, I wonder if anyone will do the 1997 ribbon dress 🤔
Lady Rebecca, try threading a piece of ribbon through the zip tag it helps give u longer reach to zip up ur dresses when u r on ur own. Oh love the new outfit.
Oh, the eternal mouse struggle! My youngest kitty has started bringing things in again. She brings them in live...loses them and then promptly loses interest. I *think* we've got none in the house at the moment...but only time will tell!
That dress looks awesome as it is already!
To make the wig look better on you, you need to tone the red out of your eyebrows, make them taupe, ash grey. Use blue eyeshadow and white powder for your face. You have very strong pink skin tones and that needs to be made paler, think vampire.
You look like a princess!
Whem doing by my self a bodice I pin the sides to the corset, to at least makes sure that the fitting from the front is correct and the back does not affects the from bc is pulling maybe weird or not pulling at all cause is not close!
The sleeveless bodice mock-up shape (around 26:35) is very flattering on you. You should make a dress with that shape top. 😊
I wonder if the weird front panel is supposed to be something like a on-the-surface stomacher.
You could put a length of cotton through the zip pull then whoosh you have your back zipped up.
So glad Dora is getting better, try toffee or chocolate or peanut butter in the mouse traps. We have a similar problem. If you catch them you need to take them at least 2 miles away so they don't come back. I caught 11 in one night in my utility room. They went into a small pet carrier and were set free in a wood far far away. Best wishes xx
So pretty!
It's looking good
I feel like the underskirt could just be done as tie-around apron skirt, rather than as an attached part of the dress. Go real old school with it and just don't attach it at all, like another petticoat
Not sure if you’ve bought different fur or decided to go with the one you showed here, but I really like Mendel’s. They’re based in San Francisco and have a wide range of fake fur. If you were to update the costume with new fur in the future, I’d go through them. I have found that ordering swatches first was the best way to go, because I could actually touch and manipulate the fur to get a feel for density, softness, and drape.
love the dress will you video tapeing the Bribie holiday dress com con?
You mean at comicon? I'm planning to vlog comicon if possible. And thanks!
I wonder how a few of the Ikea fake sheep skins would work for the trim. I'm remembering it's got a fairly long pile. ?? 🤔
Should work nicely. Used fake fur wedding boasto trim a santa girls masquerade dress for masquerade dance ones. Horrible to sew in due to fake fur all over the place and found that for years. But looks great
I did actually think about that, but that would probably get pretty pricey. And I'm not sure what the backing is like on those.
I am not sure if you have done the underskirt yet but you maybe able to attach it to elastic and have it as a separate skirt, not attached to the over skirt at all. You were worried about the stitches showing through the over skirt. Also if you want to attach it to the over skirt, you might try hand stitching it to the bottom layers of the over skirt instead of through all layers. I hope this made sense, I ramble sometimes lol.
Yeah, I wound up doing it as a separate underskirt.
I just found a pin of this Barbie in my chaos drawer! Dress is lovely, but the eyes of the pin are kinda scary. Probably what landed her in the chaos drawer.
Ok I love this, however if I had any say the Holiday Barbie I would do is 1991, my absolute favorite, second choice would be 1990 lol, which is weird cuz I'm not a fan of pink
It might be too late by now, but! If you think the wig colour looks wrong on your face, try changing your eyebrow colour a bit. Your current colour is pretty warm and strong, which looks great on your everyday face. The wig might go better with someone a little more on the cooler side. Or not! It looks like a difficult colour to coordinate with. When I wore my hair pale blonde I actually used a kind of greyish beige, which sounds horrible but worked better than any browns I had. Mind you, I've got fairly thin brows.
Meanwhile, the Barbie dress is very pretty so far. I particularly love the front skirt bit.
I did! I went with lighter red brows, since that's what Barbie has too.
Too bad you don't live in Michigan .There's a cool Xmas store in Frankenmuth called Bronners. I bet you could find decortive things for your dress there.🎄
never have i been left on such a clift hanger by a youtube video. i am anxiously awaiting the next video.
You can get 30mm snaps.
I know this is not helpful, but would a jacket style over dress have worked with an undet skirt?
I don't think so. It's fully closed up in the front.
"At JoAnn's, I found gold lame" *instinctual, preternatural hiss* KILL IT! KILL IT WITH FIRE!!! (flashbacks to applique pieces falling apart as I cut them out... which would have been prevented if I cut them with a sawdering iron, effectively using fire on it)
I got married at 23 in '89. I can not believe that a good number of my nieces and nephews are older than you! 🤣
Have you thought about getting a spray on tan either way I think you will be beautiful
I did think about self tanner, but that would just look weird on me.
I'm going to make the 1994 Holiday Barbie dress in a different color using pink and light blue satin fabric for Twas the night before Christmas 50th anniversary on December 8th 2024. It is going to be a lot more similar than that.
For the annoying scratchy seam in the sleeve : Serge it. The lamae will be incased and you won't feel it. You won't be able to open the seam, but I don't feel like it's that important on sleeves.
It was already serged, and was still itchy at first, but luckily wasn't when I wore it yesterday.
I have seen somewhere on YT the channel of a man who patterns clothes for Barbie type dolls. He explains why the patterns are done the way they are.
How are you a D cup? Are pattern “cup” sizes different than bras? I’m confused because D is only 4”.
I wear a d cup bra as well. I have a really large rib cage, so there's not a ton of difference.
I all the sudden feel to old when I realize first holiday babie come out when I was 10 and only used them foe sewing projects
What about a fur blanket for the fur.
I did think about the furry ones they had at joann's, but they just weren't right.
Hear me out. I think your back bodice issue is because you have an upright posture. I often have to fold the darts out of the back of McCalls and Butterick patterns to get them to fit correctly or make giant CB seams. I actually prefer princess seamed backs so I can distribute the excess over more seamlines for a better fit. Voice training and choir singing coaches you to have a very distinctive posture.
Why not a front closure that holly detail could cover it
I was trying to stay true to the original dress.
I really feel the need to gush. I love the bodice 😍 the gold is fabulous! Over the top Barbie in all the best ways.
I look forward to seeing the final results.
If your bra straps keep showing you could make little loops to attach the bra to the inside shoulders of the dress. They are my favorite part of many wide necked blouses 🙂
Oh my gosh I lost it at about 12:08 with you hand mannerisms while talking about fur bits....I need to grow up.....soon. LOL
Don't worry, I've used that exact same fabric not too long ago and I HATE it. But at least the dress looks good.
Get a braided gold puffy headband and some mardi gras beads!
I wound up using braided Mardi gras style Christmas beads (you'll see in next week's video). 😉
Joanns is really starting to suck. Well, starting to is wrong. All mine has is cosplay and quilting. And the bigger one isn't much better.
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Back in the 90s the straps were plastic on those dresses.
Ah, I figured as much! Thanks for confirming.
Yeah, I got that Barbie new back then. It was cool, and my Mom was trying to switch my interests from stuffed animals. It didn’t work. I was in high school with a room stuffed with stuffed animals and a few Barbies. I sold the Barbies in college.
put peanut butter in the trap, mice love it
This one apparently has no interest in peanut butter.
@@LadyRebeccaFashions bummer
feel free to alter the barbie gown , her measurements if they were on a real PERSON or kens are so unrealistic , so no i think you made the right call with the bodice and the cut of it , you did good . besides if barbie were a real person , she'd fall over a group i am in actually calculated her and kens measurements to human scale and its freakishly impossible and it makes you laugh because neither of them could stand up straight or do anything if they were real ...yes us doll collectors calculate most dolls to human size porportions and the calculations make you laugh so hard . , its a gorgeous gown on you it really is and i wish you could use your own hair instead of a wig , because , they do have red head barbies and they are the most beautiful in the collection . And rare . I love seeing your videos and i look forward to many many more
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