La petite oye
Feb. 20th, 2013 09:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotOrdered some swatches from Dharma Trading Co. Their silk gauze and cotton voile look like they come close to some of the extant pieces, although I don't know if I'll be ever able to find anything like the transparent manchettes I've seen in paintings (and the one extant piece I linked). Hopefully the gauze comes close, just because I'd like to be able to do really nice things on occasion.
[This episode of SVU stars Cary Elwes as a gravelly-voiced, heavily-accented mob lawyer and it's really, really surreal.]
I hope I'm not being stupid, though. I mean. I know I'm not going to become the next American Duchess with ruffles and undersleeves, but the thing is, I enjoy research and making authentic small things for the sake of making them. The few places I've seen this sort of stuff online (mainly chemisettes, some 19th century undersleeves), it's been either rather plain side products to go with a shop's dresses and underclothing or the main deal but they're churned out by machine. I would honestly be happy hand-sewing ones like these (working my way up to scalloped edges and such), just because I like sewing them. Selling them would help me make fabric money, basically, and give me leave to try out different fabrics and techniques. But there's a part of me that's like, "why would anyone want to buy these? They're not that hard to make." Frandslist oh frandslist, answer me do (but not while feeling like I'm going to force you to stick with your answer in the future): if you were working on a nice 18th century gown, would you consider buying a set of double ruffles in silk gauze to go with them for $20-$40 (or thereabouts, I need to time myself making up a set once I get some of the fabric I've ordered), or would you be like, that's not necessary? I am suddenly afflicted with self-doubt.
Oh my god, Tumblr is infecting me, I keep wanting to write self-deprecatory tags and that's just not necessary.
[This episode of SVU stars Cary Elwes as a gravelly-voiced, heavily-accented mob lawyer and it's really, really surreal.]
I hope I'm not being stupid, though. I mean. I know I'm not going to become the next American Duchess with ruffles and undersleeves, but the thing is, I enjoy research and making authentic small things for the sake of making them. The few places I've seen this sort of stuff online (mainly chemisettes, some 19th century undersleeves), it's been either rather plain side products to go with a shop's dresses and underclothing or the main deal but they're churned out by machine. I would honestly be happy hand-sewing ones like these (working my way up to scalloped edges and such), just because I like sewing them. Selling them would help me make fabric money, basically, and give me leave to try out different fabrics and techniques. But there's a part of me that's like, "why would anyone want to buy these? They're not that hard to make." Frandslist oh frandslist, answer me do (but not while feeling like I'm going to force you to stick with your answer in the future): if you were working on a nice 18th century gown, would you consider buying a set of double ruffles in silk gauze to go with them for $20-$40 (or thereabouts, I need to time myself making up a set once I get some of the fabric I've ordered), or would you be like, that's not necessary? I am suddenly afflicted with self-doubt.
Oh my god, Tumblr is infecting me, I keep wanting to write self-deprecatory tags and that's just not necessary.
