what a time
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chocolatepot(Everyone's off doing NaNo, aren't they.)
Over the past couple of days I've been sewing hardcore on my thesis project, making lots of headway. This morning I put it all on and BAM I look fantastic. (With a little imagination, as it's not totally finished. No sleeves.) There is exactly enough fabric between the underbust and neckline drawstrings, and the pleating on the back comes to exactly the right point. Even without a petticoat, you can see the billowy pre-Regency shape. I'm pretty proud of how it's coming out, especially given that it's all without a pattern. I do plan to chart the pattern for the paper, and I probably should have done it earlier, when I could spread the pieces out, but without sewing certain parts into place I couldn't be certain that what needed to come after was right.
This is teaching me that I need to get a couple of pairs of pantyhose and some batting and bulk out my dress form, because it's not as busty as I am and that's given me a few !!! moments. Fortunately everything's worked out, but it'd be really nice to turn it into a proper double for the next time I go to drape something. Something with my cup size, at least. And waistline. Especially waistline. Height-wise, I mean.
I've had to mess with my stays - just the cups, I'd gathered them too much so they were basically flat. Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible for me to use this style to achieve actual cups? Even fixing the gathering, it's forming more of a naturalish curve rather than actually filling the cups. It's like ... I need the cut-out bits to be bigger than they can physically be. How do I wear bras? I don't understand it. I don't think this is terrible, I'm fairly sure some women wore stays with gathery-soft bits that didn't quite work just like bras, based on paintings and things. (A bigger problem is the way the front edges kind of curve out due to the reed. Not sure what to do about that, except maybe de-bind them a bit and put a second reed in each channel, curving the other way.) But it would have been nice to create something that worked properly. I did make short stays one time that worked very well, but they used the Regency gussets technique that I've never actually seen in short stays. And then I spilled tea on them.
Over the past couple of days I've been sewing hardcore on my thesis project, making lots of headway. This morning I put it all on and BAM I look fantastic. (With a little imagination, as it's not totally finished. No sleeves.) There is exactly enough fabric between the underbust and neckline drawstrings, and the pleating on the back comes to exactly the right point. Even without a petticoat, you can see the billowy pre-Regency shape. I'm pretty proud of how it's coming out, especially given that it's all without a pattern. I do plan to chart the pattern for the paper, and I probably should have done it earlier, when I could spread the pieces out, but without sewing certain parts into place I couldn't be certain that what needed to come after was right.
This is teaching me that I need to get a couple of pairs of pantyhose and some batting and bulk out my dress form, because it's not as busty as I am and that's given me a few !!! moments. Fortunately everything's worked out, but it'd be really nice to turn it into a proper double for the next time I go to drape something. Something with my cup size, at least. And waistline. Especially waistline. Height-wise, I mean.
I've had to mess with my stays - just the cups, I'd gathered them too much so they were basically flat. Unfortunately, I don't think it's possible for me to use this style to achieve actual cups? Even fixing the gathering, it's forming more of a naturalish curve rather than actually filling the cups. It's like ... I need the cut-out bits to be bigger than they can physically be. How do I wear bras? I don't understand it. I don't think this is terrible, I'm fairly sure some women wore stays with gathery-soft bits that didn't quite work just like bras, based on paintings and things. (A bigger problem is the way the front edges kind of curve out due to the reed. Not sure what to do about that, except maybe de-bind them a bit and put a second reed in each channel, curving the other way.) But it would have been nice to create something that worked properly. I did make short stays one time that worked very well, but they used the Regency gussets technique that I've never actually seen in short stays. And then I spilled tea on them.
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Date: 2011-11-05 10:45 pm (UTC)...so tired...
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Date: 2011-11-06 12:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-06 03:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-06 03:35 pm (UTC)Know what you mean about the books, I'm never going to be able to do anything in my room here, I'm pretty sure.
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Date: 2011-11-06 08:08 pm (UTC)Yup. ;-D
You are going to share pics of this when it's finished, yes? :)
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Date: 2011-11-07 01:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-06 08:36 pm (UTC)Pls take pictures because I can't make this make sense in my mind. Possibly because I've only ever seen dress forms at a distance or something.
I read your clothing posts in no small part because they're interesting and because they remind me of all I did wrong when I took home ec A HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS AGO WHEN WE RODE DINOSAURS TEN MILES TO SCHOOL THROUGH FIFTY FEET OF SNOW.
I thought it would be easy to adapt a simple skirt pattern. My home ec teacher, a vicious, sadistic mother, enjoyed laughing at my naivete.
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Date: 2011-11-06 08:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-11-07 01:31 am (UTC)Sewing is so, so hard once you step off the path of the strict instructions. I'm hoping that eventually I break through a barrier and it suddenly becomes quite simple.
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Date: 2011-11-07 01:42 am (UTC)