I Remade Mary Poppins’ Dress to be Actually Edwardian

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Imagine you're just hanging out in the park when a woman dressed in full period accurate 1910s style attire shows up and you have to accept that you've been exposed as the absolute casual you are for daring to wear jeans and a T-shirt outside on a bright sunny afternoon.

I'm a 19 year old man who has never had any interest in clothing or sewing, but I just sat through all 13 minutes of this and it was so interesting.

Sometimes I genuinely believe Bernadette lives in some magical alternate reality of hand sewing, perfectly fitting thimbles, and hamsters. Then she says something like "omg there's so many dead moths"

So when you got to the underwear "combinations" part, I felt like I was struck by a lightning bolt of realization. I heard my grandmothers and older folks use a similar word in Russian and Ukrainian, but I never knew why they would call a tank top a "kombinashka" lol. Now I do. It's insane how many languages have similar sounding words and borrowed words and shared words without knowing it.

Imagine seeing a lady dressed like this on a park, being oh so elegant and majestic.

Sitting here, all agog, so excited about the finished dress. There is really only one thing to say... It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!!!!

I just love the way this dress moves and froths like foam as you walk around in it. So beautiful! Why don't we dress like this anymore?? 😅

I think Edwardian is one of my favorite fashion periods. It's very "simple" in look, but has so many nuances when you look deeper. And it's very pretty.

Sometimes when Bernadette is modeling her dresses, I wonder what it would be like if she temporarily warped into the era she's mimicking. Like for this dress, if she suddenly warped into a 1910 London park, how would people react to her outfit?

To quote my 3 year old “wow, so pretty!” And when I told her you made it all by hand “she’s so cool!!!” From the mouths of babes. 😊

Doesn’t anyone else’s heart stop to see Bernadette walk/dance through mud in that gorgeous dress. Ok so totally realistic but I imagine it will take quite a lot of effort to clean it.

omg I never understood the pigeon-breasted silhouette until now!! this dress turned out absolutely gorgeous - it reminds me of Maria's debut dress from West Side Story, a mix of innocence and charm

My three-year-old: "But is she going to fly away?" Me: "Well no, she's a person; she can't fly." "But she has the umbrella! Maybe she needs to go get a bag like Mary Poppins." ❤️❤️

The odd thing about this to me is that my brain seems to have automatically adjusted my recollection of the Mary Poppins film version of the dress into something much closer to your final product. If I'd seen your dress out of context I would have immediately thought 'Hey, the Mary Poppins dress!' But if I saw the actual dress used in that scene (again out of context) I don't think I would have realised that's what it was from, because my memory of the dress in that scene absolutely did not include that puffed-out 50s silhouette. So apparently I have a tiny dress historian in my brain editing my memory to make films more historically accurate. Who knew? It's nice that my inner language pedant has company, though.

I don’t know why, but the final reveal almost made me tear up. Mary Poppins was one of my favorites growing up and this time in history feels so close to my heart. To see the real version of this outfit was just overwhelming. Truly magnificent!

I watch a lot of bloggers making Victorian clothes and they all sew beautifully, but only your creations are worthy of being used in some period film! I would definitely watch any movie, knowing only that you sewed the costumes for the actors!

Whoever decided that this THIS was no longer "in style" can bite me..... ugh it's beautiful

The dress is beautiful! I can't imagine making a white dress, all by hand, and then stepping outside where it could get snagged, stained, torn, or sun-yellowed.

"Here are the videos I did before about the construction, if you're interested in that" she says as if we weren't waiting patiently but excitedly for this very video after devouring those ones. The skirt and lace vid really reinvigorated my interest in sewing. I love the swoosh and the delicate lace~ the finished dress is absolutely gorgeous 😍 Bernadette, if you see this, what's a good place to look for examples of edwardian lace for research? Either online or books. I'm at a loss as to what is edwardian and what just says it is... Also I know you probably mostly get your fabric in person but do you have a fave online shop we could show some love and money?