This month I spent two weeks in Europe for a field school course through my university, where I was able to learn more in depth about Holocaust commemoration while abroad with a small group of students and a few professors. I have actually been wanting to go on this specific field school since my first year studying history at Mount Royal University and with everything that has been going on around the world, I was not sure at all whether this would end up happening. I am still shocked that we were able to go, and so pleased! It was an incredible experience, and it has solidified some of the decisions that I have been thinking about for my future. I am going to be doing an Honors Thesis on the Holocaust starting in the fall and I have been deciding about what topic I would focus on for my Masters, if I end up undertaking one. After this experience (and multiple other courses that I have taken on the Holocaust so far), I am certain that I would like to focus on Holocaust and Genocide Studies in the future. It is such an important topic, and after visiting some of the places where the Holocaust occurred and learning more about how society remembers it today I have realized how much I want to dedicate my future to learning and teaching about this subject. Each of the memorials and museums that we visited over the two weeks were so interesting and sometimes gave different information depending on the country that they were in and who created them. I loved being able to go to these with a group of other students who are also interested and educated about this subject, so I am very grateful about this opportunity.
Although I went on this trip primarily for university, they gave us tons of free time to check out the cities that we were in! I hadn't expected to have nearly so much time to explore, so everything that I saw was thrilling. We went to 4 different cities - Paris, Berlin, Prague, and Munich. Each city was stunning and had its own personality.
While preparing for this trip, I (of course) had to make a dress or two to bring along. This dress was my favourite of all of the other clothes that I brough along since it was light enough for the very warm weather but still covered a lot of my skin so I could avoid getting sunburned.
I have now decided to call this dress the "Louvre Dress" since I wore it to the Louvre. It is made with rayon that was very kindly gifted to me by Figo Fabrics. It is from the "True Kisses" collection, which is filled with stunning, vintage prints in adorable colours. This is the softest rayon ever, and it releases wrinkles very easily. I only had to take the dress out of my luggage the night before to hang and it was good to go! No ironing, steaming, or sorcery.
Flutter sleeves are my absolute favourite feature of a dress, so I was very excited to find this Simplicity pattern a few months ago. I had been a bit unsure about what style of dress to make with this rayon, but I knew that I wanted it to be 1930's inspired and I wanted to take advantage of the drape of this fabric since I usually work with stiffer fabrics like cotton and wool. This dress has really simple style lines, which was perfect for this busy print, and it allows for the sleeves to be the star of the show. The dress also has pockets!
I am so thrilled that I made this dress for the trip and it was so much fun wearing a me-made dress in Paris:)
Thank you so much to Figo Fabrics for sending me this stunning fabric! Unfortunately the True Kisses collection is no longer being sold, but you can find many more beautiful cottons and rayons here: https://www.figofabrics.com/product.aspx?fabid=70
Thank you for reading!
~Katherine
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