how to sew a civil war era dress?

Question

I am an experancied sewer, yet i cant find a pattern to use to sew a dress from the civil war era. I will be using the dress for a costume party coming up and i would rather make the dress than buy one or rent it. any one have anytips?

Answer 1

I did a search on metacrawler.com for Civil War era dress patterns and came up with this site, they have many different historical era costume patterns.

http://www.longago.com/index.html

Hope this works out for you!

Answer 2

Try JoAnn's fabric store