Miss Lemon wardrobe files: 5. Brown pieces

Miss Lemon seems to wear most of the brown outfits during the first seasons. Also her hairstyle is early 1930's, she wears different versions of 'spit curls'.

Brown dress with plaid bow collar
A long sleeved, belted dress with a very pretty, pleated and embellished bow-style collar. Truly a highlight of the 1930's decorative elements! The 'tartan' plaid insert at the front is folded open like a second collar, the corners and the lower part of the fabric are secured with metal rings. there is a smaller dark brown bow placed under the 'upper' collar.
    

  

Light brown blocked blouse
A coffe-coloured blouse with dark brown and white geometric motives. The blouse has a narrow, round neck and there is a knotted, pleated fake bow running down the front. The fabric of the bow is secured at the shoulders and is double folded in a cascading style. The blouse probably has cut on sleeves.


  

Brown 'speckled' frock
This dress has a round neckline with a big, rounded collar. The collar has a ruffle finish around the edges. The gathered sleeves are open at the shoulders and are finished with ruffles around the elbows.


   

   

Brown dress with smocked shoulders and off-white collar
This belted dress has smocked details at the shoulders. There is a lot of gathering going on around the sleeves and bust area. The softly folded off-white collar is decorated with spaghetti strap loops with metallic 'pendants' at the ends. The same fabric is used for the folded back cuffs. The ends of the curved collar only reach over the shoulders and remain open at the back. The dress has a long, flared skirt.

  

   



Camel brown suit
A long, straight skirt and a collarless jacket with almost no shaping. The jacket falls below the hips and closes with three buttons that are placed quite low. Worn here with a white blouse with plisse ruffles and jabot collar.


  

  

Brown fur jacket
A loosely fitted fur trimmed coat. The coat has a big, round fur collar and puffy sleeves which are more fitted at the underarms. The coat closes with a huge single button, like most 20's style coats did.



  

Yellow flower frock 
A brownish-yellow dress with puff sleeves and V-neck. The slleves seems to be cut in one piece with the bodice, the fabric is folded in pleats instead of gathering at the shoulders. There is a bow placed above the right breastline (barely visible because of the busy fabric).


   

Next up: the red outfits!

Miss Lemon wardrobe files: 4. Grey pieces

Grey is a great basic color but we don't see many outfits in this color in Miss Lemon's wardrobe. One of her prettiest dresses is the fitted grey 'triangle' dress featured in several episodes of the series!

Grey 'triangle' dress
This fitted dress has strong geometrical features with triangle 'patches' along the button tab and the underarms. Actually I didn't even notice the underarm embellishment until I started to make screenshots of the outfits! The triangles have topstitched details. The fitted dress has a raised waistline with a belt where the inverted triangles make a bow. The straight skirt has a slightly flared hem.


      

  

Grey trenchcoat
A dove-grey, belted and double breasted trench-type coat. Instead of double lapel the collar seems to be cut in one piece. Again, only detail pictures:
  

Grey dress with an embroidered bow
Unfortunately this dress remains hidden underneath a cardigan. We only see the high round neck of it and a (probaby detachable) embroidered bow.
  

Grey button front skirt
The skirt has a (probably fake) button tab in front. The big buttons are two colored and rectangular shaped. Here worn with the favorite black sweater:
  

  

Grey and black dress
This is a very elegant, very 30's dress with simple, clean geometric lines. The draped sleeves are just amazing! The gray dress has a high v-neck. The sleeves are draped and fitted at the underarms. The grey bodice has a second, black layer which forms the skirt. As so often, we don't get to see the whole dress in one shot and Miss Lemon walks by just once to show us the sleeves in motion. Such a shame! (Love the hat by the way!)


   

   

The collar seem to be layered, with a sailor-type rectangular upper collar (see below when Miss Lemon bends forward).
   

Next week: the brown outfits!

Trinity/Blackberry stitch hat finished!

  

Here is the finished hat. It was a quick project, a little less than 100g yarn went into it. I knitted it on metric size 3 needles (=US 2 and =old UK11)
I did the decreasing freehand, because the pattern is quite forgiving. As long as you keep making the dots (P3TOG) and decrease (2TOG) in the uneven rows. Here is a picture of how I do it on my circular needles:


And the finished hat (the 'real' color is a rich aubergine hue).


Here is my experimental picot-edge:


The knitted on double brim: