The Titanic Boarding suit |
Who could ever forget the grand entrance Rose DeWitt Bukater made when she got out of that car to snobbishly look up the ships gigantic bow and then say: She doesn't look any bigger than the Carpathia. This outfit is probably the most reproduced costume from the film and the most classic and stylish. It consists of a double breasted jacket with a narrow skirt, so very much the fashion in 1912 and has a dark purple velvet trim. I'm happy to announce that I'm able to add this outfit to my Titanic dress collection--with small caveats. |
This page will take over for my page previously known as the 1910's suit project. I can make the Boarding suit only in select sizes, to find out exactly which ones I'm able to do, contact me directly, it depends on your personal measurements. My fee to make the suit is $350, materials and shipping are extra. One of the biggest problems in establishing this section has been to find a source for the off white pinstriped linen used in the film. I have been unable to find it anywhere. So one modification we will have to make for your suit is the fabric. It will have to be a solid colored linen instead of the pinstripe, if you'd like to come as close to the movie outfit as possible. The other alteration is the purple trim, velvet is used in the film and I'm going to use a dull duchesse satin style material. I will not be using velvet because of it's difficulty to work with. The dull satin has the same effect in the end. The purple stripe on the sleeve end is something I added, the outfit in the movie did not have this. It's your choice wether to add it on or not. |
The suit itself can be made in different fabrics also. We could use a dark grey or black pinstripe material, which is easier to find. I made a different 1910's suit in a grey houndstooth material with black dull satin trim and collar. The skirt is styled differently in the back. Click on the button below to go to my 1910's suit page for pictures of it. |
Christina's Boarding suit |
Most of my pictures these days have to be done indoors, due to the weather not being right. So these shots are a bit dark, because I didn't have the light on to avoid that yellow tone an overhead light usually gives off and do not do the real thing justice. Christina's suit is made of an ivory linen look, this fabric is actually a rayon polyester blend and the weave looks like linen. Once again, no stripes. colored accents are eggplant in a dull satin. I can now make the Boarding suit in sizes 4-6-8. Christina liked the fold over cuff the gloves had in the film, no proper lady would have been caught outdoors without gloves, mind you, and wanted to incorporate that into the sleeve end. So the sleeve ends are done in a french fold over cuff, exposing purple. I also changed the width of the midriff band in purple from a 3 inch width to 2 inches. I think this is more accurate to the film's outfit than my first try, see above. |
Here's a detailed shot of the french cuff. While making Christina's suit, I made another one in the same size, but a different color scheme. Julie's Boarding suit! |
I had to scale my existing pattern up a size to make Christina's outfit, so I made this ecru and navy colored version first to make sure the new pattern would work. I just used some materials I already had here and that would go together. There was not enough linen to make a matching skirt, so I just made it from a navy dull satin instead. I think it's a delightfull variation from the original. To get the button detail on the skirt front across without switching button color I faced the curve of the front flap in linen. I didn't do that in the back, so it's hard to make out the buttons, but they are there. I also made a slight bloop on this model, the stripe going around the jacket is at the waist, not at the midriff, where it should be. I corrected this with Christina's suit, moving it up a bit. There is some math involved with all this sewing......lol |
Julie came by to try on the dark lavender flapper dress she had seen in one of my ebay auctions and after I asked if she would try this on for me just so I could see it on a living breathing person instead of a dress form to see if the fit was right, she agreed. Make a long story short, she decided the suit needed to come home with her.....pics are forthcoming. And I think I know why they call me the evil temptress of the cloth, LOL |
