Help! Victorian day at school, poorly kids and no outfit!

Refund_Queen

Oh my!

Found out late last week its victorian day at school at the end of this week. Have had so much on my plate at the moment and now i have a poorly baby and cant get out to look for something. So I have made an apron from an old pillowcase and am going to try to make a mob cap when kids are in bed tonight but I dont have a brown/black dress to go under the pinny.

Any ideas please!! x

74jax

Black trousers? (do they have this as part of their uniform?)

Are we talking about male or female clothes? What age?

kegg_2

cut up an old pair of trackie bottoms and rip up and old shirt. Get out the boot polish and give it a few smears of black and send they as a chimmey sweep.

You could go the whole hog and starve them for a few days for they have the gaunt under nourished look to go with the outfit



(joke just before anyone starts ringing social services):o

thorsoak

Having used one pillowslip to make a pinny - could you use another floral one to make a long skirt? give her a cot blanket folded into a shawl - and there you are!

robin_banks

How about an old potato sack, and dress them as a Victorian street urchin ?.

LJM

we are doing this after easter so any ideas here would be great chimney sweep is good we live on iow so valentine gray would go down well and costume would be easy to make cut up black trousers/white shirt boot polish up charity shop always good stop point if you dont want to cut up your own childs clothes

ailuro2

swop their clothes, so one is in clothes that are too short and the other is in clothes that are too big, iyswim, tie the too big ones up with string.;)

assuming they are both girls, of course, no one ever had clothes that fit properly in the old days apart from the rich of course.

Mrs_Thrify

One of my girls did the Victoria day dressing up for school. She wore a long blue and white check dress from a car boot sale. I sewed a white apron on the front. She had long blond hair so I tied it up in a bun and put a babies bob sun hat over the bun bit and fastened it on with hair grips. The little round hat was white.

Lots of the girls had shawls but I never thought of that. Some boys were chimply sweeps and others scruffy street children with riped shirts.
One or two girls had posh party/bridesmaids dresses, the ones with the full aprons over.

jcr16

I remember this from when i was yr 6 at school.( i was 11) i borrowed a long black skirt from my nan ( it was ankle length on me) i had a white blouse, a apron and a crochet doliey( sp?) from my nan which i used grips to attach to my hair. I put my hair up in a bun.I had a white baby blanket i put round my shoulders , and my nan had a big wicker shopping old fashioned basket which i took to school with an apple in for my teacher. ( handy having my nan living opposite me) . Not sure what i had on my feet tho.

Then for the day at school, we had slate to write on, we had lessons in lace weaving and all sorts of victorian activites. It was really good fun.

meritaten

clothes werent always monochrome! red skirts were popular, so were blue and white stripes! just avoid neon colours and patterns. except for shawls - paisley was all the rage!

Refund_Queen

Thank you for your replies, good ideas - am nearly there!!
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