Nyx Explores NGV

And so, Musume was mindlessly scrolling Instagram, as many of us tend to do. Until this picture of kawaii_mon appeared on my feed. After spending several minutes analyzing the dresses, I realized she is also based on Melbourne, Australia. Did that meant I could see the dresses? I pulled up my Google-fu immediately. And I was right: it was happening on the National Gallery of Victoria.

So I turned to my partner. "Can we go?" I asked. "Let's go after lunch" he told me. "I want to take a doll with me for pics" I replied. I can bet he thought 'please, don't let it be Venezia', but it wasn't in my plans either. So here we have Nyx exploring the Museum.

Nyx at the Museum

And so, I would wait for a room to be with less people, or for them to be far away from me, and sneakily take Nyx out of my bag, to take pictures of her. They aren't many, but I can imagine the dragon wondering what was going on with all of those clothes. Here are some pics:

The Expo

So, I love sewing, so bear with me. The expo was about an International collection the NGV acquired, so there were sculptures, paintings, and the dresses. The outfits were from a particular collection donated by a lady or purchased with the money she donated. They were from 1880, more or less, to up the 2000. And gosh dang it, there were some brands there! YSL, Dior, Alexander McQueen, and so many of them!

Picture me trying to understand the outfits, the darts, how they were cut, and attempting to get an idea of how the overall pattern could have been. Also, I took a lot of closeup pictures, but I'm not posting them -I don't think the regular readers would find this interesting. If you want them, let me know!

I will only share some of the outfits I really liked, or that I would like to attempt in the future.

These first two are suits that I loved. I think the leftmost one is really Coco-like, but I'd love to sew any of these for Venezia. Somehow she rocks suits!



I have always been very silly around fabrics. I never know what to use, how to use it, and I tend to remain on the "safe choices" without trying anything new. Forbid trying to mix fabrics, I have no taste for it at all. And then, some of the modern outfits in this collection had things like lace on top of flanelette (picture me going like ????), and they would still look amazing, as the following one on the right. Conclusion: dare to mix fabrics!

There were also some amazing, stunning drappes which I spent minutes trying to figure out how they could achieve something so perfect, symmetric, even and small!

What I liked the most were some of the more period-like assembles. They had a few Victorian, but a lot of Edwardian fashion, and I was ecstatic to be able to see them in person!! Here are my favourites of the lot:

Another gorgeous thing where the shoes. I honestly haven't seen period-like shoes for dolls, except those made by artists themselves. I took some pics, but I'm not planning on getting into doll-shoemaking, honestly!

I know this may not be interesting for everyone, but I was really excited about seeing those outfits! It was an amazing experience and I definitely want to sew several of them. By the way, this has been the first non-scheduled post in several months, so I think I deserve a cheer up, at least! Anyways, wish you the best, and thanks for reading!