YOOOOOOOOOOO

IT FITS IT FITS IT FITS

I'm not going to put the thread eyes on (right now I'm using safety pins) until later, because I didn't have the corset laced properly and I don't want to take the chance that it needs to be bigger/smaller in places when I have someone else lace it. (It's my very bad Regency one - I thought the Sebille would be okay, because the waistline didn't seem that high, but ... it is high. I'm not sure this will fit if I make a better Regency corset tbh.) And I might do an eventual post-event finishing, because the sleeves really need to be repleated so they don't fall so much in the front: I should have lined up the center of the sleeve head before I started pinning the pleats.

But I for real was expecting the worst! That this would be a great representation of my skills and 1820s style, but would not be wearable. I didn't make a muslin because I'm foolhardy and lazy because I didn't see a good way to do it without going through all the fiddly handwork - treadle machines can't have the tension adjusted to make gathering possible - and I thought it would be simple enough to fit, but I was really skeptical about the length of the neckband up until I actually put it on over the corset just now. The back is kind of long (needs a sway-back adjustment), but that's not a can't-wear-it sort of fit problem.

All I need to do now is make a petticoat!