She’s grown out of it now, but my child too was obsessed with the princesses. She wanted a Rapunzel birthday party, for which we made cute long-haired bookmarks, luminary crafts, cut-up-and-pieced yellow tablecloths to make 70 feet of “hair,” hair combs with a long yellow yarn braid attached to it, a Pascal party favor, a fancy cake…and through a series of errors and mistimings, only her bestie showed for it. It ended up being simply the most elaborate play date there ever was.
But she got a play dress out of it. I lengthened the bodice block I’d been using for years for her princess dress-ups, with a fully smocked back so her friends of any adjacent age or size could also wear it.
The details on this one make it one of my faves. The purple fabric is the ubiquitous Casa collection that had some light glitter on it. Then we have the false lacing on the front, the pretty ribbons on the puffed upper sleeves, the sheer undersleeves, the different lace trims, the sparkly fake-embroidered false underskirt…lots of falses here, which is the right thing to do for dress-up.
I added horsehair at the hem to give it some body without needing the fluffy petticoat I had made for her poufy princesses—Rapunzel is a practical, A-line kind of girl.
Mimsy 