Lots of sewing blah blah
Oct. 23rd, 2012 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotI've attached the few 1920s court dresses I've found to my court dress Pinterest board - haven't found a picture of that specific V&A Callot Soeurs court dress, but have found other ones by them. I'm less into the court robes de style, though, mainly because they're more frothy and complex and difficult - what's really captured me is this one by (House of) Worth. Part of what I like is that, despite the intense embroidery on the lower half, the fabric itself is very simple, and the cut is as well. The trouble is: am I going to look like a bulgy doofus if I try to wear something cut similarly? Answer: yes. Does anyone have any experience with the Corsets & Crinolines 1920s corselet, or has anyone seen a dress diary or even just a finished version of it? I'd love to go minimal and just make a cute brassiere and tap pants combo, but it's be nice to have a smooth silhouette.
(ETA: Though now I'm thinking about it a really simple yet elegant robe de style might be better ...)
Sadly there's no back view, but from the others I have pinned it looks like trains just attach very simply at the shoulders and that is not something I'm going to worry about. (I'll save my worrying for the horrible choice between incredibly expensive silk satin and affordable *sigh* polyester.)
Don't know what I want to do yet for the day dress. I actually saw a dress in AIHA that was very clearly from the same collection - as in fashion collection, not museum - as 31A in Patterns of Fashion II, so it might be cool to do that in the light green crepe of AIHA's, but at the same time I'm not a huge fan of the design. There aren't really any 1920s day dress patterns I like in Waugh or Arnold - the closest I get to is the 1918 afternoon dress (no. 69) in Cut of Women's Clothes, which is pre-1920s, but it's a similar aesthetic ... In my own patterns, I have a ca. 1929 dress that might be okay; I have my great-grandmother's graduation dress from 1919; I also have - thought I didn't, but I do - the one of an afternoon dress ca. 1922 with a whole tunic-effect thing (cf. this tea dress). That one was originally in taffeta, and part of the point of doing a day dress was to use cheaper fabric, but I could figure something out. But I didn't write any directions down at all for it and that's a pain.
On the other hand, I'm highly attracted to this Poiret dress but would have to meld patterns together. I do have a lot of time, though, so I could do mock-ups - and after I get my first paycheck I might put the last $50 in my dress form fund and get that.
Maybe I'll ask Connie if I can glance at a few 1920s dresses when I go to NYSM to get inspiration.
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While I was scanning the drive with a new partition-recovery program, the files suddenly became visible! So I'm copying them over while I can. I didn't want to stop the scan, but it seemed to be really slowing down the transfer so I did, also it was scanning for RAW files again for some reason, so yeah, would have been useless anyway.
(ETA: Though now I'm thinking about it a really simple yet elegant robe de style might be better ...)
Sadly there's no back view, but from the others I have pinned it looks like trains just attach very simply at the shoulders and that is not something I'm going to worry about. (I'll save my worrying for the horrible choice between incredibly expensive silk satin and affordable *sigh* polyester.)
Don't know what I want to do yet for the day dress. I actually saw a dress in AIHA that was very clearly from the same collection - as in fashion collection, not museum - as 31A in Patterns of Fashion II, so it might be cool to do that in the light green crepe of AIHA's, but at the same time I'm not a huge fan of the design. There aren't really any 1920s day dress patterns I like in Waugh or Arnold - the closest I get to is the 1918 afternoon dress (no. 69) in Cut of Women's Clothes, which is pre-1920s, but it's a similar aesthetic ... In my own patterns, I have a ca. 1929 dress that might be okay; I have my great-grandmother's graduation dress from 1919; I also have - thought I didn't, but I do - the one of an afternoon dress ca. 1922 with a whole tunic-effect thing (cf. this tea dress). That one was originally in taffeta, and part of the point of doing a day dress was to use cheaper fabric, but I could figure something out. But I didn't write any directions down at all for it and that's a pain.
On the other hand, I'm highly attracted to this Poiret dress but would have to meld patterns together. I do have a lot of time, though, so I could do mock-ups - and after I get my first paycheck I might put the last $50 in my dress form fund and get that.
Maybe I'll ask Connie if I can glance at a few 1920s dresses when I go to NYSM to get inspiration.
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While I was scanning the drive with a new partition-recovery program, the files suddenly became visible! So I'm copying them over while I can. I didn't want to stop the scan, but it seemed to be really slowing down the transfer so I did, also it was scanning for RAW files again for some reason, so yeah, would have been useless anyway.
