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chocolatepotBustle is mostly done:
Overall I'm happier with it than with anything I've made in the past year. I do wish I hadn't taken a tuck in the front to bring the skirt to the diameter described in Costume in Detail, because that makes it a leetle small for the hoops just above it and I like the size/shape of the hoops more than the skirt. The front of the skirt could do with actual shaping - the sides have a nice slope.
The side straps are WAY shortened from the pattern, I can't see why. They're longer than the back one in the pattern, which doesn't make any sense: you'd want more bowing out in the back than in the sides.
That hoop wire is stiff and very strongly wants to be straight rather than curved. Without the front ties, those front straps bow out like crazy and the front hem is several inches higher than in the back. I feel like moving the straps out more to the sides, as in the original, would deal with that without ties (which the original doesn't have) ... but maybe not.
I don't know how other people deal with these rivets. I was able to snap them together but Ron had to crimp them down for me.
Butterick is/was having a massive OOP sale - $1.19 each - and I found some I liked, so those will be coming soon. I don't 100% remember what I ordered. None of the costume dress patterns looked both fixable/worth fixing and relevant to my interests (there's a late Natural Formy evening dress but not worth fixing), but I did get an 1860s headbandy thing. I think the others are tops and dresses for when I get a real job ha ha ha.
Overall I'm happier with it than with anything I've made in the past year. I do wish I hadn't taken a tuck in the front to bring the skirt to the diameter described in Costume in Detail, because that makes it a leetle small for the hoops just above it and I like the size/shape of the hoops more than the skirt. The front of the skirt could do with actual shaping - the sides have a nice slope.
The side straps are WAY shortened from the pattern, I can't see why. They're longer than the back one in the pattern, which doesn't make any sense: you'd want more bowing out in the back than in the sides.
That hoop wire is stiff and very strongly wants to be straight rather than curved. Without the front ties, those front straps bow out like crazy and the front hem is several inches higher than in the back. I feel like moving the straps out more to the sides, as in the original, would deal with that without ties (which the original doesn't have) ... but maybe not.
I don't know how other people deal with these rivets. I was able to snap them together but Ron had to crimp them down for me.
Butterick is/was having a massive OOP sale - $1.19 each - and I found some I liked, so those will be coming soon. I don't 100% remember what I ordered. None of the costume dress patterns looked both fixable/worth fixing and relevant to my interests (there's a late Natural Formy evening dress but not worth fixing), but I did get an 1860s headbandy thing. I think the others are tops and dresses for when I get a real job ha ha ha.
