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Designing & Testing a Historically-Inspired Gown

Bernadette Banner

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0:00 - Intro
0:44 - Setting Some Goals
1:42 - Moodboard time 😎 (& Milanote ad)
4:34 - How I Layout Moodboards
6:15 - Design Exploration
8:00 - Sketching the Design
9:01 - Breaking Out the Watercolors
10:01 - Drafting the stays pattern
11:38 - Let them eat cake (& also, like, make a mockup I guess)
12:40 - Revealing the secret sauce of 17th & 18th century stays
13:30 - Drafting the Panniers
14:18 - Adjusting the Pattern
15:07 - Draping & Finishing the Mockup
15:44 - Finishing the Mockup & Yapping About Historical Techniques
17:06 - Final Mockup Reveal
17:49 - Credits
18:04 - floor time

20 Comments

@bernadettebanner Creator 1 year ago Pinned

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@sarademattie963 1 year ago

“Babe wake up…our favorite unhinged historical seamstress just posted”

@OlessanYT 1 year ago

Legend has it she's still in the cozy rug burrito to this day.

@theoriginalpsb9588 1 year ago

I love how her style evolved over the years. It started as meek librarian to eccentric aunt who's secretly a witch.

@Loxalair 1 year ago

As a geologist, interdisciplinary stuff is so important to basically every field, and segregating things into separate boxes does no field any favours. Love the design, can't wait to see the finished project!

@LeeCarlson 1 year ago

I share these videos with my teenager, who lost her mother a decade back to cancer because it is so like watching her mother engage in research and construction for new costuming projects, which she worked on every year that she was with us.

@ingeniouspixie 1 year ago

Who remembers when Bernadette used old wrapping paper to draw out patterns? 😂❤❤❤

@ed6705 1 year ago

I'm so used to seeing Ms. Banner with her hair up, that hair down Bernadette is embodying a real chaotic energy

@jennagriffith9016 1 year ago

I absolutely love how this lady has developed and matured over the span of her YouTube videos. Even her voice is so much fuller and exudes confidence.

@lzz9376 1 year ago

"Interdisciplinary stuff... reasons."
Yes, M'am.

@pricklypear7516 1 year ago

I'm sure you already know this, but in his original portrait of Madame X, Sargent had the model's right shoulder strap appearing to have "slipped" down. Well. THAT was just a bridge too far in 1884, and the painting was deemed absolutely scandalous. Sargent quickly "fixed" the strap back onto her shoulder. It was amusing that the first thing you did in your preliminary sketch was to slip that strap down again. Brava!

@MadameCorgi 1 year ago

i think that the combination of creativity and academia is what i like so much about this channel, so I agree they go together well! A lot of arts also require academic study to do well, like reading books on music theory or tailoring.

@RandomPerson-bb2gp 1 year ago

You’re literally a historical fashion costumer. Your channel is entirely interdisciplinary bridging the gap between creativity and academics

@maike__- 1 year ago

The "dumpster corset" mockup is a look indeed, but so is the carpet roll nap. Living for the chaos.

@moshy2931 1 year ago

17:01 Bernadette you're not beating the time traveler allegations with that one

@sophr.6702 1 year ago

This is genuinely a great ad for milanote, a lot of people are sponsored by them but this is the first video that made me want it

@pierresosa6156 1 year ago

12:31 - "Dumpster stays", "a look" -- I think the goth clubs are going to to get really crazy after this. I'm excited to use this hack. Thank you for inspiring, as always!

@FenrirsToeBeans 1 year ago

Watching her trim the muslin, tape & stays: yes, this is the reason I own so many different pairs of scissors

@Aure457 1 year ago

This is my favorite kind of sponsored videos, while I also like skits, I just love when the ad is just part of the content and it doesn’t interrupt the flow of the video. I feel like the only difference if they didn’t sponsored the video is that you wouldn’t have mentioned the capabilities of it.

@rosebroady6618 1 year ago

I adore how Bernadette goes into the process of design, looking at the history, cobbling ideas together, and her drawings.
The design she has come up with and her theme has a whole Demeter goddess of the harvest thing going through it.
I can't wait to see how it turns out