Cinderella is having her unmentionables sewn, which leads to some interesting quandaries. Are they grubby? I think I'll got for dirty hemlines and a bit of tea staining. And it's challenging to sew something small, with hand finishes and french-seaming and tiny hems, and then cut it and tear it and grubby it. Challenging and fun. So, I made me some coffee and I made the clothes some tea. And we'll see how it goes.

My plan for her dress proper (my dear, she can't clean in her underthings!) is some re-purposed black noil silk from an old shirt. Its nubbly texture looks like old, worn wool, but drapes and hangs in scale with the doll. Why black? I assuming once her father died she wouldn't be bought new clothes and they wouldn't spend money on a servant's livery; the last thing she would have had to wear would have been the mourning she wore for her father's funeral. So, black it is, with patches and tears. I'm sure Cinderella could sew, all well-educated young ladies could. I just doubt she would have had the opportunity.