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Halloween Costumes 2009: Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet
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Description
I used Butterick 3648 for Husband’s jacket and pants and Butterick 6630 (dress A) for my dress. Neither pattern was an “easy” one, but they both were reasonable in their difficulty. The directions were clear, and the sizing came out the way I expected (I lengthened the torso pieces and leg pieces for Husband since he’s tall and otherwise followed the patterns exactly.). Husband made his top hat out of cardboard and covered it with leftover fabric from his pants.
Material Notes
dress: embroidered polyester (looks like raw silk) and lace I had on hand jacket: polyester suiting (and leftover silk scraps for lining) pants: polyester suiting various weights of interfacing
Categories
- Season
- Fall
- For
- Women
- Garment Type
- Costume
- Style
- Evening Wear, Romantic
- Material
- Lace/Sequins, Polyester
Credits
- Butterick 3648
http://www.butterick.com/item/B3648.htm
- Butterick 6630
http://www.butterick.com/item/B6630.htm
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Nov 6, 2009, 03.30 AMby Momsgotanewhobby
What an excellent and original costume idea. Daughter who loves this book and the films is over my shoulder flipping out with “How awesome they look!!!”
Nov 5, 2009, 10.10 PMby Almatinka
You two do look like you’ve just come from that era!!! Great job, both of you!!!
Nov 5, 2009, 02.38 AMby D3liriums4m4
These look fantastic. Very nicely fitted, and well put together. You look great together!
Nov 4, 2009, 06.33 PMby Vickles
What an awesome idea! You both look very snappy, and they look beautifully made!
Nov 4, 2009, 01.21 PMby ncn6
Damn, I would love to see my boyfriend dressed up as Mr. Darcy…. he’s quite tall too, and I’m sure he would look smashing in this outfit! Great job!
Nov 4, 2009, 05.23 AMby BuzzyBee
Gorgeous! May I ask, what did you wear on your wedding day? This certainly qualifies for a wedding… So clever about the hat making too! You should definitely wear this dress for an occasion other than just Halloween – perhaps for a Ball or someone elses Wedding (only if the brides dress is more elaborate, check this out!)
Nov 4, 2009, 04.20 AMby cquinn13
gorgeous fabric in your dress! you did an excellent job with these, I can’t believe that hat was made out of cardboard!
Nov 3, 2009, 11.00 PMby Medea
oh, that looks so awesome!
great job, I love pride and prejudice ^^