Making a Gold Jabot

I pleated the fabric and then laid it on the mannequin to see
if I was getting the right overall look.

After checking how the pleats looked I went ahead and pleated two sets of the gold fabric that fold over themselves giving me a total of 4 rows.

I thought an easy way of handling the pleated fabric would be in it had a muslin backing along the top. I then made a neckband and a small section of muslin to attach to the neckband. I thought the muslin backing would help make the gold pop. I then sewed the layers of pleated gold fabric to the section of muslin.

After I made the fur layers of pleated gold I decided the neckband looked a little dull. I then added the gold fabric but horizontally to the neckband. Lastly I added snaps to the back for closures.

After sewing 4 layers of the gold I thought it needed a little more to it but I waited to see how it looked with the entire outfit on the actor. Once I tried it on the actor I trimmed the bottom row and then added a small row of cream lace to the jabot.

I also made matching cuffs for the actor to go with this jabot.