Sissi Wedding dress

This is an old project I did for the Jackson Civil War Muster in my hometown. The idea was to do a patriotic red white and blue dress as my persona as a tradesman Northerner's daughter visiting the camps to help provide some moral and encouragement to the boys in blue. A person visiting the camps during the war would be their to support a relative or deliver some homemade items.


Original apron at the Gettysburg museum. I liked how the stripes were set up so used this as the inspiration for the "skirt" of the flag apron. This one was an adult apron dated to the 1860's.

From what I could dig up, this is a children's apron dated to early to mid 1860's that closes with a button closure and has a type of cotton ribbon formed into flowers. This was where the idea for the top  of the apron came from.

 This is meant to represent the circular flags that were used during the era. The five stars are not folded as the example above, but rather cut out and embroidered around to keep from fraying. It closes in the back with a button.

 This was probably one of my favorite aprons, it really came out wonderfully and many spectators even had compliments to give about it. It took about 10 hours to make, and about $30 in materials. The most time consuming parts were the stars and having to sew the alternating strips of red and white together.