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Feb. 9th, 2019 10:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotPolitics is doing my head in lately. I think some of that's because I'm spending more time on Twitter - I'm going to integrate myself into Fashion History Twitter if it kills me, and it will because it just reinforces that a) most of the other women who study this stuff are Drs and b) the professional fashion history scene in America is extremely twentieth-century-centric and that's why I'll never get hired in a costume collection - but also because it's accelerating as we head toward the primaries. We're going to have a FULL YEAR of a primary season that promises to be exactly as hellish as 2016, if not more so. Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.
Finally cut out the sleeves and skirt for my bib-front gown. I added no width to the sleeve because the upper arm was the right size, and the lower arm is quite a close fit, which is how I assume it's supposed to be. I also didn't realize it's got that slightly-too-long-scrunched-up-above-the-wrist thing going on, because it's so slight. Very interesting! So the top of the gown is based on the trained bib-front pattern in RWD, and for the skirt I used the other, because it's straight panels and I don't have enough fabric to cut out gores. (Edit: Realized after going to bed that I do have the fabric to cut out gores, silly me.) Hopefully it all comes together. I don't know why it shouldn't but I'm always concerned.ktlovely, when is the event again? I don't know why I can't manage to remember. I thought it was April but I think I got it confused with the MANY conference that was partly held there last April - it's the 1812 weekend in June, right?
Will need to make a bonnet. Can't find any of my Lynn McMasters patterns (although since the failed CW spoon bonnet that had a very wrong brim shape I'm a little wary of the brand now), but I think I would need to draft something new for this period anyway. Maybe a casque? (NB: I've made two entire bonnets in my life and this will be a mess.)
Finally cut out the sleeves and skirt for my bib-front gown. I added no width to the sleeve because the upper arm was the right size, and the lower arm is quite a close fit, which is how I assume it's supposed to be. I also didn't realize it's got that slightly-too-long-scrunched-up-above-the-wrist thing going on, because it's so slight. Very interesting! So the top of the gown is based on the trained bib-front pattern in RWD, and for the skirt I used the other, because it's straight panels and I don't have enough fabric to cut out gores. (Edit: Realized after going to bed that I do have the fabric to cut out gores, silly me.) Hopefully it all comes together. I don't know why it shouldn't but I'm always concerned.
ktlovely, when is the event again? I don't know why I can't manage to remember. I thought it was April but I think I got it confused with the MANY conference that was partly held there last April - it's the 1812 weekend in June, right?Will need to make a bonnet. Can't find any of my Lynn McMasters patterns (although since the failed CW spoon bonnet that had a very wrong brim shape I'm a little wary of the brand now), but I think I would need to draft something new for this period anyway. Maybe a casque? (NB: I've made two entire bonnets in my life and this will be a mess.)
