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Habit à la Française

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Habit à la Française

This was my first costume in my final year at Wimbledon College of Arts. I choose to make this habit à la Française, which is based on an original garment that was worn by Otto van Randwijck in 1790. It is a part of the Gemeente Museum Den Haag museum collection. A large image of the front is based on the NRC website which helped a lot with detigising the embroidery.
The base layer is digital embroidry, with a design I digitised in Wilcom EmbroideryStudio and embroidered myself, with French Knots added on top by hand to give it more depth.

Actor: Peter Kingston

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