France Seychelles- Hide + Seek

Alright, long sum up is long, but this outfit needs it : D

This was something that we had planned for quite a few months. Nikki (France here) made his Children's Day France outfit back in November. After spending months working on it and studying French Fashion from the time period to make it as accurate as possible, he came out with this beautiful costume.

We decided we wanted to do more, since we both loved the design that was come up with for France. We wanted to design a matching dress for Seychelles.

The dress was designed and drawn by *Hyuu-Fai though it has changed a bit since the original drawing when we both added input and ideas throughout the process. The skirt and bodice were surged and fit by the amazing Hyuu-Fai and then I had a fun time to sit there and sew meters and meters of trim to it, and hand embroider the beads.

It was designed to match France's in colour and style, and was based off the dresses worn by female adolescences in the same time period France's was from. This dress costs $500 dollars roughly in material to make, 75 meters of trim, 24 meters in skirt, 5 layers of petticoats, 5 months of sewing and a lot of patience.


The material was a drapery fabric, so it was tough and strong. It was surged together. The bodice has beads and sea shells hand embroidered into the fabric. The skirt has 3 layers of fabric, and then trimmed. The trim is made of 4 different trims that were then sewn together and added to the different layers.

The jewelry was where we added the island girl touch. The dress was designed to match the French style, but the jewelry was where we added the Seychelles touch. I made the necklace in the /style/ of the time period, but was created from rocks and sea shells. The strings of beads were also added to the gold ribbons in the hair.



Do not use this design for Seychelles without direct permission. It took a lot of design and time to make, and design, and create, and it was to much work to just be taken so easily. I am only adding this because it's already happened.

Seychelles:
France:

Made by: and


France based on: [link]

Close up on the trim: [link]
Close up of Necklace: [link]

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