I made a PLUS SIZE Dorothy Dress using the REAL movie dress from Wizard of Oz

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I have always loved The Wizard of Oz and when i found out there was a Wizard of Oz Museum just 90 minutes away from me, I knew the time had come for me to make my own PLUS SIZE Dorothy dress and blouse. But, being me, I had to be extra about it, by using 1950's vintage fabric, a 1940's vintage sewing pattern and 1950's deadstock cotton rick rack.
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[@mrcanada1104]

For all of those people wondering why there aren’t a lot more of the reveal shots from Autumns At Oz, the fault was entirely mine. I had eaten something cross-contaminated with something I’m allergic to prior, and it was raging through my system. I was a horrible assistant / camera man / director that weekend. The fault is entirely mine. 😊

[@cassmacdonald-perfectlyimp2486]

But we all hope you are feeling better, good sir!

[@moxielouise]

Bless your heart. That was me yesterday

[@zythe69akaru]

As an IBS girlie, I totally understand!!! It's so hard to travel when I can't eat gluten OR mammal, but I make it work for conventions!! I hope you're feeling better 💖

[@cassmacdonald-perfectlyimp2486]

@@zythe69akaru I’ve got MCAS and what I was told was IBS is actually gastroparesis secondary to hEDS, plus food intolerances. Travelling and eating out is like Russian Roulette and I always carry heavy duty antihistamines - just in case lol - solidarity my friend. The struggle is real

[@thecalicoheart7946]

Temporarily incapacitated as a camera man, but fully present as a loving and supportive husband, good sir. 😊💝

[@audiochicky]

I work at a museum that has a Dorothy dress, and I had no idea there is a hidden pocket!

[@TealCheetah]

SECRET POCKET!

[@stefflcus]

"Too intense for a Dorothy cosplay?" Honestly no. Those books were way more intense than we remember.

[@MeMe-Moi]

I know, right? I saw the movie before I read the books, and they definitely toned down the story for the movie

[@nattninjamedbuller]

My motto from now on: Judy had pockets - and I have proof

[@elisabethphd]

You did a fantastic job on this costume! You should absolutely wear it to a cosplay event, it looks so good. It was so kind of the museum to let you see the dress up close so you could really see how it was constructed. There were a lot of details that were essential to make the costume look real and not a Disney-bounding (Oz-bounding?) style of outfit.

[@ReisigSeeds]

Also, I find it very interesting that I can tell that this gingham fabric is SO much better quality.

[@cherylhuot4436]

Another way to reduce friction, put some scotch tape (the matt style, not the shiny kind ) on the bottom of your presser foot. The dress turned out so great!! As you know, 99% of people will NEVER see the mistakes. Only you, because you know they are there and that’s all your eyes see!! It’s just the human in us. We all do it.

[@seanmcgcostumes]

As a HUGE Oz nerd, I love this so much! And you can actually see Judy use the pocket throughout the film. It’s where Dorothy keeps her handkerchief!

[@connie6545]

Beautifully made, Stephanie! And, by using vintage fabric it only adds to the sustainability of it all. The pockets were definitely a bonus. The footage of you and your daughter hand-in-hand was so special.

[@jessicaneal8553]

The Bob's your uncle - not that Bob jokes do not get old. I giggle every time.

[@AussieTracy]

Wow amazing to see the real Dorothy Dress up close and it had POCKETS... Your dress turned out fabulous!!!!

[@dottiepark]

That kid pattern is a monster. I think there were six pieces to each sleeve! I have made Dorothy in several sizes.

[@rmorine6394]

You did an amazing job! The original dress is so sweet. Imagine a 1930s or 40s farmer's wife taking the time to handsew those details for her daughter's dress.❤

[@danielletdg8423]

It turned out sooo cute! And I was so excited to see your daughter in a matching dress. It's always sad to me when kids no longer want to dress up, especially with the parents. ❤❤❤

[@jaimemulder82]

I love the Wizard of Oz!! I live in Michigan near holland and it is said that L Frank Baum wrote the books there. In the summer of 2020 the township had the characters made up in metal and are available to see on the north side of the building. Kitty corner from the library is a park that has a very large flower book that is dedicated to L Frank Baum.

[@madebymaryssa]

Canonical pockets! Tina picking out the toilet paper reminded me of my old job in quality control.

[@sonipitts]

Ways to repurpose mock-ups: garment and craft item linings, smaller mockups (full shirt -> tank top, etc), pocket bags, interlinings/interfacing for smaller pattern pieces, craft item backings, and eventually (when the pieces get small enough) stuffing for craft items.

[@bunhelsingslegacy3549]

I cackled just like you did at the pockets reveal 3 minutes in!! "Ready to... Procrastinate!" had me cackling again. I'm gonna get up now and cut out that pattern I need done in a week.

[@stevezytveld6585]

Heels for Four Hours. That, Madam, is commitment to the bit. Like I've never seen. Hats off to you, please have a seat... The ensemble is lovely. Well done. It looks like it was a super fun day for the fam. And your video is the best postcard, ever. You're computer/slash/sewing machine butterlies you hello and yells at you when there's too much lint. Are we sure the machines haven't taken over yet? In theory you're suppose to clean out the lint after you've finished a big project. Not sure if anyone actually does that. Including me... - Cathy (&, accidently, Steve), Ottawa/Bytown/Pimisi

[@esthermcafee5293]

Hey sponsorship Stephanie! Just wanted to mention that I love seeing how the Merit products work without wearing a full face of tinted primer/foundation/base. I’m looking for something that just makes me look alive vs. recently reanimated, and I’m too damn lazy to wear foundation. Appreciate you showing the products in use on a normal sewing day! ❤

[@vanessajones3508]

Stephanie, you did a great job. I love the details, the hair ribbons, the shoes, and the basket. You and your daughter look so sweet.

[@fancydeer]

I love this channel because you show off your first drafts and you proudly wear what you make. Was the Dorthy dress perfect? No. But it was amazing! You made a freaking dress in four days! It was cute! You looked cute! This is what diy is really like, we have a vision and sometimes it turns out perfect and sometimes it turns out with quirks and the quirks are what makes the thing uniquely ours! I love that everything isn't movie perfect or something, it's realistic and achievable and chaotic and perfect. My perfectionism makes me hate sewing but the more I watch the more I want to dig out my machine and try again, to hell with it. If Stephanie can sew and chaos and look cute I can too.

[@joycleckley2881]

Steph, you did a most FABULOUS job, work, alterations of the blouse and pinafore. I am just amazed the amount of work in the time frame it was accomllished. We must be soul sisters. I am a major procrastinator, anthing that can be put off will be 😂, and a perfectionist. Here is a sewing tip I learned when making my childrens clothes. There is a product, at this moment can not remember the name, that is double sided sticky tape that is washable used to keeo trims in place while being stitched down. When humidity is high, needle gets gummy, just wipe clean. But this product revolutionized my making of smocked bishop style dresses. As getting the bias trim for the collar to line up perfect to the top row of smocking can wreck the looks. I love you made yalls daughter a matching dress. I did the same with mine. Judy Garland was 1 of my favorite actresses, along with Lucille Ball. Peace, love and light sent to all💚💚💚✌

[@feliciamoss4871]

So I was watching and sewing along. Yours came out way better than mine. Way to go Stephanie! You look amazing, hope you had fun.

[@cassmacdonald-perfectlyimp2486]

This is phenomenal and I completely agree that petting of the fabric is obligatory.

[@dragnflei]

Sorta like petting the yarn is obligatory if you’re a knitter. 👍

[@cassmacdonald-perfectlyimp2486]

@@dragnflei as a knitter as well - petting the yarn (or even stroking it against sensitive parts of the body to check if it’s tolerable on sensitive skin) is 100% essential!!

[@punkee666]

With all of the affordable glasses brands that are available now you would think that someone would bring out a pair of makeup glasses My grandmother had a pair that had hinges on each lens so she could flip one side up at a time to do her eye makeup while still being able to see out of the other eye

[@JaimeRL513]

I live an hour from where Frank L Baum grew up and they have an annual festival for all things Oz called Oz-stravaganza. Wish you lived closer so you could wear this beautiful dress for it! Amazing video, as always ❤

[@melodied4314]

Go for the cosplay event. You look fabulous. Your own little Toto is adorable.

[@vegemitegirl1971]

This girl from Oz (Australia) was in America, and Kansas, 9 years ago, for 3 months. Yes, I did read the entire book whilst in Kansas and would have loved to go to this theme park.

[@csifan52]

Oh my gosh it’s brilliant! Great job!!!! Calling in a quilter for bias cutting was a great call too lol

[@obsidianrosestudio2663]

So frickin’ adorable! The puppets that you are, ‘not so sure about’ 😅 Look like they are very old and based off the original art work from the books. I can see the additional portions of the first book that are not in the movie. Like the emerald glasses on Dorothy. I have known about the park for a while now and knew that it has had a difficult history and glad it’s open even if just once a year. I was so excited you were able to adventure there. 😊 Mockups: I save them and depending on what it is (bodice shape) I will make a pattern block from it and store them together. That way I can always refit prior to reusing the block. Adjustments are easier that way.

[@ToriLynnH]

Oh man! I would have incorporated the chicken scratch! That is a great dress. You did good!

[@clairewulf]

you have such incredible comedic delivery, i always laugh so much watching your videos!

[@kathymartin1805]

I visited The Land of Oz back in the day. I think I was around 8 or 10. I would love to go see it again! Love your dress and your videos!

[@elizabethd5756]

I'm glad that the festivals are still happening. Back in my younger days, I managed a behind the scenes private tour of the house and the yellow brick road - nothing nefarious, the caretaker was super nice and I had my, at the time, charges in tow ( I was a nanny out walking the kids) and the park had been closed for a few years at that time. I still have a small piece of the yellow brick road.

[@dragonwort]

The overthinking on the skirt totally me the perfectionist Tendencies get to me every time

[@ushere5791]

Love it! And vermilion is your color!😃

[@LillianBates-iu8zz]

I hope you and your family had fun at Autumn at Oz. My family went to the Land of Oz theme park when it was open in the 1970s, sometime in the first few years it was open as it was well before the fire in 1975 so I was between 8 and 10 years old. In 2019 my cousin Craig was able to get 4 tickets to the summer event at Land of Oz and invited my sister Eve and I to join him and his sister Angela for the weekend. It was amazing what we remembered nearly 45 years later about the trip to Oz we had taken as small children.

[@sonipitts]

"No...not that Bob" 🐭🐐🤣

[@mollysmith6055]

What an amazing project! I'm sad yourbquilternfriend didn't know about making continuous bias. It is rather mind-bending to me but it maximizes the amount of bias you can get from a small piece of fabric and no fiddly single seams. Thank you for sharing this project with us and all the amazing museum footage too.

[@seanm1976]

I always love it when you wear your rainbow dress. can't get over how much I love the polka dot rainbow fabric!

[@gigi3242]

Yeah, the footage of that room made me nauseated, no way I could handle that. It's so awesome that you take time out of sewing the dress and blouse to relax and do a jigsaw puzzle. Beautiful work, thanks for sharing.

[@roryfroschauer4821]

literally jaw on the floor amazed and also !!!!! YOU GOT TO SEE THE REAL DRESS!!!! also abandoned/defunct theme park that is wizard of themed is like, Made For Me Specifically. Those are two very specific interests and there's a place where I can engage in both of them? WILD.

[@nerdaccount]

Can we get Mr. Canada as the Wizard of Oz? I loved this costume!!! Thank you for sharing its creation!

[@hibernacle]

I was not expecting a Merit sponsorship over here, but I really like what you did with it! These bundles are tempting me hard

[@michellecornum5856]

Congratulations! Achievement Unlocked!! You have just leveled up! I love when this happens!! Also, it was very cool seeing the actual dress up close.

[@mariellelam4278]

I've now watched all your videos and love everything you do. The only thing I keep wondering is why I never see you using the table attachment for your machine and why you don't use the knee lever. The table helps to keep your fabric much straighter under the machine. And I couldn't live without the knee lever as an extra pair of hands when you need to turn your material and want to keep it steady while at the same time lifting the pressure foot. I find both Bernina sewing machine accessories almost essential while sewing.

[@inlikecin]

Hi Stephanie, your costume is fantastic! Love it.

[@egreen9841]

Love love love this. The dress came out soooooo good. In the original, were the straps sewn down to the bodice pr loose. It may not be aas "authentic" if you stitch them down but it'll keep them from being shifty. Also, Kansas girl here and always loved wizard of Oz! Did you know there's a museum in Wanego KS?

[@lucyj8204]

That dress is COMPLEX! Fabulous attention to detail.

[@hailyframbach6589]

Cameraman love. Especially in that universe scene. Kudos!

[@GaraksApprentice]

Everything about this was fabulous, and the end result is amazing!

[@roxannlegg750]

Yup = best cosplay chilhood fantasy ever!! Beautiful. I know what its like to eek out a whole costume from a minimal amount of vintage fabric.

[@samanthagirly3350]

I had to pause the video to tell you that I absolutely love the orange dress you’re wearing in this video. Did you do a video on how you made it?

[@Addiep03]

OK I HAVENT WATCHED THE VIDEO YET BUT I LITERALLY HAVE ALL THE FABRIC TO MAKE THIS LOOK AND IVE BEEN LOOKING FOR SOMEONE ELSE DOING IT

[@sheilastamps853]

Great job! The dress looks great and thanks for the secret about the pockets.

[@creativecostumeacademy]

This looks amazing and you looked fabulous!!! 💚

[@susandreyer9019]

This is excellent! I love it you did a wonderful job recreating the original. Love love love it.

[@blaaaaaaarrrrr]

22:22 Windows XP instructions. 😅 So true.

[@ebmosier1]

Crazy, I did this exact same thing a year ago and took copious pics/notes, but didn't know they could open the case for you at the time.

[@jacobgalos9081]

When I made this dress for a summerstock production, we did the trim in 3 sections and it was split at the side seams for the top waist and skirt pieces!

[@roxiepoe9586]

I watched Kiralee unbox the patterns you sent her - and she was soooooooooooooo happy. I love that you made her so very happy. You are sorta amazing, you know. Thank you.

[@amilan409]

I've sooo wanted to go to that theme park ! The dress is great ! You look great ! and seems like you had a great time

[@ColorJoyLynnH]

Congratulations!!!!! So well done.

[@lynn858]

Having been the person who cut strips, for a friend who is an AMAZING quilter... yeah... cutting long strips is a pain the arse. Although it is slightly better with a bar height cutting table.

[@daxxydog5777]

The dress came out great! Next time you want to stabilize fabric, you can use parchment paper and it will tear off more easily. Or use a walking foot.

[@kd1841]

Your dresses are so cute!!! I made this Dorothy dress for my daughter around 2011 using the movie pattern Simplicity put out. I also made a matching one for my daughters doll from a great pattern I got an etsy. The most annoying feature though was cutting and sewing the bias together!! It looked great on her and has definitely gone in the keep pile of things I've made.

[@leslieanderson5562]

I’d love to see a part 2 video with an Emeral City costume!

[@EtchedInTimeLLC]

I do believe this is your greatest creation!!!

[@dorindabalanecki9307]

This is fabulous! You are so adorable 😍

[@joiedevivre2005]

You look magical! Y'all were (almost) in my neck of the woods! I'm in the Upstate of SC & about 2 1/2 hours from Beech Mountain. I go up there all the time to see the fall leaves. Looks like y'all had fun!

[@daxxydog5777]

Me, too! Greenville.

[@meowzerzzz]

Awesome! I made one 15 years ago, I doubt it fits the same but I should try in honor of the upcoming movie. I love seeing your garments!

[@Waynem.9363]

The costume turned out wonderfully! Great job!

[@jayneterry8701]

😊Am smiling all thru your reveal. Judy was very petite! 😮 And I was sad when you removed the chicken scratch. What to do with the fitting? File it with your patterns. 💗

[@DonnaleaSpencer]

super cute!

[@MeadowoodRanch]

Cool project. Had a team dinner tonight from across the country. That theme park came up - one guy volunteers for ski patrol at Beech Mtn. He mentioned Land of Oz and the festival. Glad you got to visit.

[@margaretbristow8943]

A Munchkin costume would be hilarious! NO flying monkeys please. They freaked me out as a kid.

[@joiedevivre2005]

I may dress my dog up as one of the Flying Monkeys (because he's such a little devil monkey) & go as the Wicked Witch this year.

[@11orana]

My 3 girls (who I called the gargoyles) were never freaked out by flying monkeys.

[@KeiPalace]

what a great museum! love that they had all the original books, my small town library had them as well, until they had to take them out of circulation to save them.

[@mrsvickigriffin]

I love the prints of your dresses enough to try some myself

[@arvettadelashmit9337]

Your dress looks very much like the real dress. You looked like you were having fun wearing it. Thank you for this video. I would have not taken the chicken scratch out of that fabric. It was beautiful. Thank you for letting us get to see the close up of the real dress. That was a treat.

[@lindafoxwell6546]

The topstitching is fabulous

[@brendasorenson6186]

Love it! And I also love that spider web dress!

[@kaykaycabaret]

Loved all of this ❤❤❤

[@rachellehoward5078]

Where did u get that tape measure? So cute.

[@pennydreadfull]

Toto ly adorable!!

[@mdeysenroth]

I made myself a Dorothy dress way back in the day, no pattern because that's how I roll. Not the attention to detail of yours, but then I didn't have the original to refer to. My favorite part was actually the shoes. Bought a pair of pumps at the Goodwill, cut bows out of cardboard, lots of spray glue and red glitter, then sealed with clear spray paint because the glitter was falling off everywhere. Did not realize how stiff they were going to become. The shoes did not give at all, and by the end of the night my feet were killing me. Years later, I cut the dress way down to fit my little niece, so it exists no more.

[@queencailo]

Okay that is an AWESOME seam ripper

[@StephanieCanada]

Thank you! My friend made it for me during the pandemic. It is my favorite one ever

[@margaretbarker2868]

Fabulous!

[@donnacoleman4624]

I love watching u, you are so much fun!! Love your costume and love me some Oz too! I'm a 64 yo kid and I made a Dorothy dress just to wear when I watch the movie!! Yall have so much to see and do in Florida. My son lives there and he's always asking me what I want to do when I visit, so the museum and theme park will be on my list. Yay!!!❤❤❤

[@Doctor_Al]

Awesome job.

[@rebeccacamacho-sobczak4282]

Great look!!

[@shellebelle093]

that costume looks wonderful! you did such a good job!

[@cheekyb71]

Too cute!!!! ❤

[@Hippiechick11]

You make an amazing Dorothy!! Well done

[@lanapeterzon]

Love your hair in a high ponytail. Very becoming!

[@karen4you]

Seeing the original was super amazing. This is my most favorite dress you ever made. And if I lose another four inches off my waist I will be the same size as you. Goals! You are so adorable.

[@lillianoldham5789]

Brillant dress! It was down right fun to watch this video and inspirational as well!! Love to see someone use their brain to get through a problem!!

[@daedubois9428]

I love the video! What a great selection of music! 🎶

[@EllieDelightful]

This turned out wonderful! You absolutely SHOULD wear this to a comic con, you'd make so many people so happy to see you! (But maybe swap in flats, 'cause whooooooeeeeeeee no sir heels are a nope for me!)