SHANNON'Sdresses

Whats new?

14/8/11
I'm giving this old dinosaur a bit of a break, and am now regularly updating over at facebook.com/costumesbyshannon. Please go check it out!

3/7/11
A 1930s evening dress.

29/6/11
A groovy day dress from 1940.

10/4/11
At last, here are the costumes for Nora Helmer and Kristina Lind from A Doll's House.

30/3/11
Check out the first photos of Vroni's wedding dress.

7/2/11
A little bit of A Doll's House.

5/2/11
Here is a double update after such a long absence - a 1930s and a 1940s.

26/09/10
Sorry for the wait, but the pages for Milady de Winter and Constance Bonacieux from The Three Musketeers are now up. Also featured on the Events page. Enjoy :)

10/7/10
I am currently working on costumes for a production of The Three Musketeers by a theatre company called Stagecraft. So stay tuned!

7/6/10
Yes, I am obsessed with 1940s clothing, and yes, there is another example here.

25/5/10
Shoes...Shoes...Shoes... OHMYGOD! Shoes. Thank you Sarah for the link. Added to the links page :)

8/5/10
1940s/WWII offering #2.

2/5/10
I've gone a little 1940s/WWII era crazy. Here is my first offering.

5/4/10
This is why the maroon Georgian dress took so long. Talk about suffering for your art. My sewing finger will never be the same.

4/1/10
Man, I'm on FIRE!! Second update in three days! Must be my subconscious reminding me I have to go back to work tomorrow. Anyway, here is an 18th century hanging pocket.

2/1/10
Happy New Year everyone! To mark the first update of the new decade, I've revisited my first ever costume design, and created this regency gown from the very same pattern I drafted way back in 2003. Look familiar?

28/11/09
I've introduced a small new feature - whenever you see this:


It means there is currently a corresponding project under construction, and pictures should hopefully soon follow.So keep checking back!

19/11/09
Check out my finally finished frilly peach Georgian dress.

23/10/09
More progress on the Peach Georgian dress

13/10/2009
A Georgian corset to go with all my Georgian dresses.

27/09/09
Presenting...the Atonement dress.

30/08/09
Progress on the Peach Georgian dress.

15/08/09
Progress on the Atonement dress.

26/07/09
I finally have the completed Victorian bustle dress online. Not the best photos though. Need a new camera.

19/07/09
The ghosts of projects past have been collaborated to make a patchworked dress.

26/5/09
My dressform arrived!!

23/5/09
I've decided to scrap the 'Current Projects' page and start writing a journal of ShannonsDresses news in it's place. Go check it out.

30/3/09
This must be a first in the history of ShannonsDresses - two new projects added at once. We have a georgian gown here, and another georgian gown here. Enjoy!

19/3/09
I think I'm obsessed with Georgian costumes. I have a new one here and two more currently under construction. Plus one more still in my head...

28/2/09
Even though I'm not very happy with it, you can find pics of the regency dress here. But I have another one on the way - a forest green Georgian dress inspired by 'The Duchess'.

20/2/09
Almost exactly a year later and I am back home, and have already started on a new project - a chocolate brown Regency day dress. Watch this space for pictures!

26/2/08
Right, I'm off, and after this shannonsdresses will be on an indefinite hiatus, as I am going overseas and I don't know when I'm coming back! So thanks for your company over the past year and a half, and I'll see you when I plant my roots back in good old NZ soil again. Au revoir!

1/2/08
This is possibly my last dress update for a while - my blood red renaissance dress.

2/1/08
My medieval dress is finally finished! Pics can be found here, and you better appreciate them, because they might be the last for quite some time.

10/12/07
I have another 1930s style dress online, check it out here.

17/11/07
My yellow Marie Antoinette inspired dress is online, find pics of it here.

15/10/07
Photos of Beth in her dress are finally up. You can find them here.

7/10/07
SOLD!
My renaissance dress I listed on Trademe has officially sold. Keep your eye out for more listings in the future.

30/9/07
If you want to invest in Shannonsdresses, and get your hands on a Shannonsdresses original, I've listed a renaissance-style dress on Trademe. Go check it out. The dress also has it's own page that you can look at here.

25/9/07
I have two new dresses on the go, which are now sitting in Current Projects, and have replaced them with two more possible projects in Future Ideas.

9/9/07
My pale green Elizabethan dress is now finished, and you can find the pictures of it here.

29/8/07
I have also begun my new pale green Elizabethan gown, and you can check out it's progress in my current projects.

27/8/07
Because it was a nice day yesterday I decided to go for a walk to Savemart, and ended up spending $85 on curtains.
I just couldn't help myself. But I take reassurance in the fact that if I'd bought the fabric new it would have cost me hundreds. So I actually feel pretty awesome.

19/8/07
I don't think I've ever made a dress that took me less than a week. Go check out my new bias-cut satin royal blue 1930s-eque evening dress, here.

18/8/07
I'm making an awesome dress for my friend Beth to wear to her brother's wedding in Sydney in September. You can check out it's progress here.

14/8/07
There are three new hopeful concepts on the Future Ideas page. They will sit there patiently waiting until I have the time to make them a reality. In other news, I have been intensely working on a royal blue 1930s style dress, and will have piccies up asap. So watch this space.

3/8/07
My yellow medieval dress is slowly being tended to. You can see the latest developments on it here.

27/5/07
Here you go, just as promised. I've added two more pages to my Past Projects for my two attempts at Victorian-style corset making. And it might be the last update for a while yet.

26/5/07
Sorry about the delay kids, but I have finally got this show back on the road. I think I understand how this crazy new php set-up works, and I have added the content of my new Pink Georgian page. Go have a look see, and I'll be back soon with the other two projects that are ready.

10/5/07
Thanks, robotdanceteam, that's right, the redesign is finally done! Now, in the meantime while I work to understand how to update this monstrous labyrinth of new code, I've provided a teaser on the Past Projects page. I promise I'll be back with more soon. Soonish. Maybe. We'll see.

8/5/07
Re-Design is done! We're back in business! Boo-yah! How do you like me now?!

10/4/07
Yep, still waiting on that re-design...

30/3/07
And I've started another Victorian corset, with a different pattern, because I wasn't too pleased with the first one. It's in Current Projects at the moment, and it's going to be a lot more awesome.

27/3/07
Well I've already finished my Victorian corset, but I've asked my website designer for a slight redesign of the website, so I might wait until then to put the piccies up.

26/3/07
I've started my yellow medieval-inspired dress. It's on the Current Projects page as we speak.

20/3/07
Look what I found! This book caught my eye as I browsed on Amazon, but when I went to a bookshop yesterday to pick up a book that I wanted that wasn't there, I saw this one instead. Good times! And I've already picked which pattern I'm going to start with. The easiest-looking one.

28/2/07
Thanks to my new sewing machine I have another dress on the go - a pink georgian-esque dress. You can find it on the Current Projects page.

26/2/07
I have added a newly completed dress on the past projects page - 1920s Flapper. Awesome.

22/2/07
Guess what I bought! This little baby!
So watch this space ladies and gentlemen, Shannon is back in action!