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Mar. 6th, 2012 08:21 pmMaureen Dowd on Rush Limbaugh
Newsies the Musical (never mind that it already was a musical) is actually happening!
Five hundred previously unknown fairy tales discovered in Regensburg
Today I patterned a ca. 1797 cotton dress and a ca. 1820 evening dress. The more I do, the faster and better I get, and the better I am at noting construction details - for each one, I'm trying to note down the order the pieces are put together. The 1797 dress was a pain because of the pleats - definitely easier to drape on a dress form than to measure - and the 1820 one for the sleeves, because they each have a long rectangular panel of bias-cut satin pleated into zig-zags and took me forever to figure out. I haven't been interested in Regency for a while now, but I'd kind of like an excuse to make a reproduction of this one, tbh. It's detailed enough to be interesting, but also simple enough not to kick in my "urgh" reaction.
Newsies the Musical (never mind that it already was a musical) is actually happening!
Five hundred previously unknown fairy tales discovered in Regensburg
Today I patterned a ca. 1797 cotton dress and a ca. 1820 evening dress. The more I do, the faster and better I get, and the better I am at noting construction details - for each one, I'm trying to note down the order the pieces are put together. The 1797 dress was a pain because of the pleats - definitely easier to drape on a dress form than to measure - and the 1820 one for the sleeves, because they each have a long rectangular panel of bias-cut satin pleated into zig-zags and took me forever to figure out. I haven't been interested in Regency for a while now, but I'd kind of like an excuse to make a reproduction of this one, tbh. It's detailed enough to be interesting, but also simple enough not to kick in my "urgh" reaction.
