The costume I'm wearing represents the 1896 time frame, near the Gibson Girl era. As you can see on my earliest entry, I mention this outfit and the event that it was made for. At the barnes & Nobles event, I dressed up my 5 dolls in different outfits. This is my most favorite, the Medieval Traveling outfit. You can see additional pictures of this outfit under the American girl doll label.
This outfit for the doll was inspired, Ohh, do you see the similarity?....it was inspired by my outfit. My doll is also wearing a Gibson Girl outfit made with the same fabric as mine. I'll post her outfit next time so that you might see the details a little bit better. Since I just finished her outfit that morning, I wasn't able to include a not made up hat and fan. You can see the other dolls behind me, from left to right - Elizabethean outfit (my creation), Tinkerbell, Felicity's day dress [worn by Elizabeth] with matching purse [the object of the demo]
Here I am showing my audience how to make the stitches in the fabric
and helping them out with any questions, 
The girls loved to ask questions. We talked about the time period of these outfits, colors and fabrics, designing and the process of putting it all together.
It was a lot of work putting all this together, but, I must say, I truly enjoyed this short time interacting with them, the interest and the wanting to learn, and especially, the end result: "I really did do this all by myself!". I want to give thanks to Anna, the Barnes & Noble children supervisor at the Silverdale Mall, for helping and especially for providing a fun program for the American Girl Club throughtout the year.
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