How to Make a Civil War Dress || A Historical Sewing Vlog

Interested in making your own Civil War dress with historically accurate techniques? This video is for you! Learn step by step how to put your new dress together. This is perfect for someone who has a pattern but the pattern does not include historical techniques or the sewer is a visual learner or for someone who has draped or drafted their own pattern and needs the skills to put their dress together.

Longer, more detailed videos on putting the skirt together:

Longer, more detailed videos on putting the bodice together:

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[KatelynKearns]

Don't forget about all the longer more detailed videos on each of these steps!

Longer, more detailed videos on putting the skirt together:

Longer, more detailed videos on putting the bodice together:

Other videos of interest:

[moysoyjoy]

Thank you for this video! I’m currently planning my 1860s day dress for this years Dickens Fair. Thank you for the reminder to accept the visible seams inside the dress

[blacktulip]

Katelyn. thank you for this! I definitively need to make a Civil War dress. And a 1830's one too. 🙂

[mmw]

This is a really good tutorial on how to put the dress together.
I would have appreciated seeing the finished dress (front, side, back, sleeve top and cuff and closures) shown either on you or a dress form in order to see what results from assembling the dess. Also, a discussion on accessories for the dress and the era would have been fun. Would you please consider doing a video on the finished dress, underpinnings, shoes, hair and accessories please?

[mikuhatsune]

Thank you for the detailed video! I plan to follow this when I eventually make my own Civil War dress. I mainly sew for 18th-century living history, so your clear instructions are quite useful for this new-to-me fashion period.

Regarding printed cottons, I was wondering if you know whether paisley was popular or not for dress fabric during the Civil War period. The extant dresses I found online looked like they were from the 1880s or 90s, so if you by any chance know anything about paisley garments during the Civil War, it would be much appreciated. No worries if you don’t, though, since it feels like this is a rabbit hole I‘m starting down lol.