Hyacinth's Purple Afternoon Dress

Hyacinth has so many purple dresses that I sometimes found it hard to tell the difference between them. :-P And it's hard to know how to name them! I've called this one her purple afternoon dress, though.

Another view:

Full length (I think this is the same one):

I like the sleeves!
I believe this can be made from Sense and Sensibility's Romantic era dress pattern if you enlarge the sleeves and add undersleeves. ;-)

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Anonymous said…
I love her pelerine in the second picture! Back then all that embroidery and lace work would have been done by hand. I hope I can do that some day.

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