Entry #28: Intermediate

Entrant Category: Intermediate

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Johanna von Trapp’s Dress

My learning outfit is for the Austrian girl Johanna von Trapp, the second youngest sister of the Trapp Family Singers.

The design is from the German 1958 movie “Die Trapp-Familie in Amerika”  based upon the memoir "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers" by Maria von Trapp. See the two pictures from the movie. It is the dress the two girls on the left are wearing on both photos.

The movie tells about the Trapp family in America after they have escaped from the Nazis in their home country Austria.  Upon their arrival Johanna and her brothers and sisters have to learn that being different can be a challenge as well as a chance.  At first nobody seems to like their singing and it takes a while before they understand that the Americans just want the Trapp family's Austrian charme.

Singing German folk songs in this performance outfit,  her red and white dirndl dress with puff-sleeved ruffled blouse , a white apron, grey “woolen” stockings and black  sturdy shoes, Johanna realizes that she and her family stand for all the beauty of the Austrian culture the Americans like to dream of.

For the pattern I used the free Heidi dress pattern from my.joann.com for the dress bodice and blouse as a guide to create my own pattern.

The most challenging part was to sew the yoke pieces of the bodice together and then turn them  to the right side and iron them so that they lay neatly and could be topstitched to the lower bodice.

For the skirt I used  the skirt of Kirsten’s apron dress pattern and for the apron I made my own pattern using Kirsten’s meet apron as a template.

The grey socks are made from a human sock and the shoes are made from black craft foam with a pattern I had designed myself and already used for other doll shoes.

The final photos show Johanna in a beautiful park in a big American city looking around to stand in awe before all the gigantic buildings, so very different from the mighty mountains of her home country but still as impressive.

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