The stripey challenge - my approach

hello everybody,

Recently our (historical) meme mom Karolina Zebrowska  introduced the stripey challenge.
Basically it's an invitaion to all historical sewists to recreate a historical garment from any deacde, but it has to striped in black and whited. Why?
Firstly because stripey costumes are awesome, secondly because its always cool to sew with complete strangers worldwide, it gives you this weird motivation.

So obviously I need to join stuff like that too and used the chance to make a black and white evening gown from the decade between 1900 and 1910. First I thought about the iconic Worth gown, but it just wasn´t stripey enough. So I picked a more rarely seen dress worn by the famous opera singer Lina Cavalieri

I really fell in love with the dress, So i searched up information on it, which wasn't as successful as I would have wished, but I found out who has worn it, as noted above and that it was made and worn in 1905 or 1906.The strange thing is that I cannot seem to find a picture from the front in a similar quality. In fact thats the only two pictures I find at all from this dress and they do look like two complete different ones, the front view looks nearly like a painting.But this leaves me a bit of room for interpretation, which isn't the worst either. The dress is rather slim and flares out extremly at the bottom, it has  a train in the back, which is, I have to admit, a bit intimidating for me, since i never made a train or such. The neckline is very wide, which leads me to make a new, more low necked camisole. The neckline seems to be decorated with a satin sash, and some mesh, as well as beaded fringe on the front. It has puffed sleeves, where the details are rarely visible. The embellishment is the most interesting part, but I will do it not as elaborate as it was made on the extant garment. To save the last bit of my sanity.
The orginal seems to have beading all over, but I am not gonna do that. I was thinking that I sew on fabric that has some sheen to it and if I have time and motivation I will do some beading on the edges. So on to the fabrics I bought for this:

The base makes a white, very crisp almost glazed looking cotton fabric, It will be the mock-up fabric and hopefully I can just take it like it is, with some minor alterations. The pattern will just be altered from my existing Titanic costume pattern, because it did fit well over the corset ( I´ll use the same corset and chemise)

Over that will go a black mesh, just like in the reference, it's not as sheer as I would have liked but, it should work. Furthermore it will be the base of the decorative elements, so the vertical lines and flower decoration. 

Speaking of the decorative fabric, I picked this shimmery, striped black taffeta and I will sew the stripes into the seams or over it. The floral pattern will probably be made out of the same fabric, but I have no clue how I will seal the edges yet, at least not in a historical manner. ( If you have any ideas, please let me know)

For the neckline, ruffles and sleeves maybe, I picked a black stain with a subtle sheen, which contains approximately half cotton fiber. 

I also picked a black chiffon for the sleeves, I could also use the mesh for them, but I just wanted to have something to vary. 

I took two trimmings, first a narrow lace in black, which will be on the edge of the ruffles on the train. Secondly I also bought this black and white embroidered lace, which isn´t used in the original dress, but it fitted so well that I just had to take it with me.

 

                                      For the petticoat I bought, a stiff but thin white cotton and some wide lace. I will make a camisole and and bustle pad as well, but I think I have all the material for that at home. As soon as I get my current project done, I will start on this.                   Thank you all for reading, I hope you share a little bit of my excitement