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Marna Davis from The Domestic Lady's Dressmaker on Etsy shared with me photos and a grid of one of her original 1870s wrappers. The original lady was nearly my size and so it was a perfect pattern to make. I ended up adding the extra length needed in the skirt incorrectly as apparently the original lady and I have the same length legs, but she, unlike myself, was incredibly short waisted! So now I have a short waisted wrapper but it still works. It was my fault for assuming. But this wrapper works amazingly as an over the nightgown rush to the outhouse wrapper, a maternity wear dress, or as a dress-looking wrapper with a nice velvet belt. It was entirely sewn on my original 1870s Wilcox and Gibbs, Wilma.
Marna's Etsy shop with many patterns copied from her original garments: www.etsy.com/shop/WickedStepm...
Marna's 1870 wrapper/dress pattern (the Flora pattern): www.etsy.com/listing/94902189...
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