Historically Accurate Anastasia Costumes
I'm not sure how broad the interest in this video will be, but it's been a LONG time coming! This is one of the final stages before constructing a patreon picked bonus project, which I promised to do almost a year ago!
I took over 50 suggestions from a previous post, compiled them into three polls, which were all voted on by $10+ patrons. There were two clear standout winners - A historically accurate disney princess costume, and a mint and white rococo costume.
Then I made another poll, with various princesses as options, and Anastasia won! So I went through the movie, and designed historically inspired versions of all her outfits.
I'm quite curious to see which one will end up winning. I'm going fabric shopping later this month and really looking forward to getting supplies for the winning design, and finally getting started on it!
(and an abundance of white and mint fabric for something 18th century)
Hopefully this is enjoyable, even if you haven't been involved in the voting process.
And if you're part of a higher tier, go vote!!!
Thanks for the support! :)
Comments (18)
I’m new but I need this series to happen. The Anastasia movie is VERY important to me and I learned to sew more intricate things from your videos SPECIFICALLY to make my own version of the court gown. (I also made the boat dress.) But I would explode with joy to see ANY of these dresses being made. I don’t know what was picked but whatever it is- I desperately hope you still have the plans to make it. You’re one of the few people I know would do Anastasia’s dresses justice.
Please make the Russian court gown and the crown!!!
I agree with Astrid, all of them! But if not all of them, in addition to the Russian Court Gown, which obviously won in the poll....perhaps one of the other day dresses done in a modern style?
I love seeing you sketch and the addition of the history lesson made this fun to watch, even though I probably don’t know half of the Disney princesses. But I’m curious about which will win, although I have a strong suspicion you will have your work cut out . . .
Oh, these are lovely designs! I want you, to make all of them (lol)!
These are all so lovely, I'm kind of glad I can't vote because it would be too hard to choose. My favourite outfit in the movie is actually what young Anastasia wore to the ball at the very beginning of the movie, lol.
All so pretty. Looking forward to seeing the dress your gonna make x
The problem with historical/period dramas (cartoon or not) is the costumes, hair and make up is always influenced by the what is in style at the time the film is made. I think that is the case here a bit too, definitely some 1990's vibes going on!
Not a 10$+ Tier-Member so I can't vote, but if the winner ends up being the Russian courtgown (I mean, just LOOK at it :D) you should maybe consider doing a crowdfunding for this project just so you can afford all the expensive yards of fabric?
THIS!!! We voted and chose and signed you up for something super time consuming and expensive, it'd be really awesome to help out cover the cost of our project directly!
I wanted to add a few comments about the Russian court dress just because I'm really excited about the possibility of you making it because I love your videos and I've also done a lot of research about Imperial Russia just because that time period really interests me. The reason why the style of the Russian court dress doesn't really change is because the style was mandated by the tsar in the 1830s as the official court costume for women. It stayed pretty much the same between the 1830s and 1917. Here is an article with more information about the court dress: <a href="http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/ctCostume.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.alexanderpalace.org/palace/ctCostume.html</a> Also, although the real life Anastasia didn't live long enough to wear an official court dress as an adult, her two oldest sisters Olga and Tatiana did appear at court and there is a photo of their surviving court dresses here: <a href="http://www.nicholasandalexandra.com/dresso&t.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">http://www.nicholasandalexandra.com/dresso&t.html</a>
Time for Fans to send some extra Birthday funds! Lots of fabric to buy!
Absolutely gorgeous! Can’t wait to see which one (or two) you do!
i like them all
Oooh that is exciting. Tier 10 vote for either the second interpretation of the black evening gown. This will be really cool!!
...All of them? Finish sewing through the decades and start sewing through Anastasia?
Your drawings are gorgeous!!
Just a friendly reminder, Anastasia is not a Disney production, it was animated by Fox Animation. Fox was just recently acquired by Disney.