{"id":2152,"date":"2025-10-26T01:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T17:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2025-10-26T10:55:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T02:55:08","slug":"blue-18-century-style-gown-for-the-fete-galantes-at-versailles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/?p=2152","title":{"rendered":"18th century style gown for The Fete Galantes de Versailles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLICK HERE FOR MORE IMAGES.<\/p>\n<p>This was a custom commissioned for the 2025 Fete Galantes held in the Palace of Versailles. The commission included, the Robe a la francaise, stomacher with hidden center zipper, decorative petticoat with an embroidered overlay, and small accessory bag made from the dress fabrics and trims,<\/p>\n<p>The gown was created with a beautiful blue damask fabric with large repeating pattern, and a companion beige damask fabric. The pattern was taken into account when patterning the saque back and the pattern was matched and mirrored. The front has a hidden zipper for a modern convenient way of dressing. The pattern was matched to disguise the hidden zipper placket.<\/p>\n<p>Ivory bows were created as warm accents, and ivory satin buttons gave the appearance of a period specific detail of a central button opening that further disguised a zipper closure. A small accessory bag was also created using the dress fabrics and lace.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2155\" src=\"http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Karen-saque-back-detail-of-blue-dress-182x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Karen-saque-back-detail-of-blue-dress-182x300.jpg 182w, http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Karen-saque-back-detail-of-blue-dress-305x502.jpg 305w, http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Karen-saque-back-detail-of-blue-dress.jpg 584w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 182px) 100vw, 182px\" \/>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2158\" src=\"http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Blue-reticule-bag-foor-site-156x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"156\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Blue-reticule-bag-foor-site-156x300.jpg 156w, http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Blue-reticule-bag-foor-site-531x1024.jpg 531w, http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Blue-reticule-bag-foor-site-305x588.jpg 305w, http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Blue-reticule-bag-foor-site.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 156px) 100vw, 156px\" \/>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2154\" src=\"http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Karen-blue-dress-detail-front-for-site-300x265.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Karen-blue-dress-detail-front-for-site-300x265.jpg 300w, http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Karen-blue-dress-detail-front-for-site-768x678.jpg 768w, http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Karen-blue-dress-detail-front-for-site-1024x904.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Karen-blue-dress-detail-front-for-site-305x269.jpg 305w, http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Karen-blue-dress-detail-front-for-site.jpg 1652w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLICK HERE FOR MORE IMAGES.<\/p>\n<p>This was a custom commissioned for the 2025 Fete Galantes held in the Palace of Versailles. The commission included, the Robe a la francaise, stomacher with hidden center zipper, decorative petticoat with an embroidered overlay,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[114,117,116,118,115],"class_list":["post-2152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-18c-gown","tag-custom-gown","tag-fete-galantes-de-veresailles","tag-robe-a-la-francaise","tag-sack-back-gown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2196,"href":"http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions\/2196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wepdesigns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}