Dragonrose Historical Patterns
Aug. 14th, 2016 09:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotJust a heads up for my friends - the pattern line that Julie and I have been working on is going to start with a Kickstarter! It's made and we're just waiting on Kickstarter to approve and post it; we need it to purchase the module for the patterning software that will let us do custom sizing. (Custom-sizing is going to be one of our Things, along with patterns taken from actual historical pieces.)
The only pattern we're offering to start off with is the 1867 Pingat evening dress, which is a) gorgeous, b) couture (maybe we could also do the Worth walking dress AIHA has someday), and c) versatile (if you put it over a bustle and stuck an overskirt on top, you could easily push it out to ~1873), which Julie has already made. We don't know exactly where we're going to go next - since the two American war eras are so covered, market-wise, we'll probably be avoiding them and aiming for time periods that costumers like, such as the bustle eras. I'd like to do a Regency pattern, having been at least clever enough to specify in my book contract that a "competing work" would only be another book of patterns from Regency dresses. But other than that, it all depends on where we see a need at the time.
The Kickstarter prices are actually going to be a bit costlier than they will be once we're up and running, in order to make sure that the project gets funded and we can move ahead.
The only pattern we're offering to start off with is the 1867 Pingat evening dress, which is a) gorgeous, b) couture (maybe we could also do the Worth walking dress AIHA has someday), and c) versatile (if you put it over a bustle and stuck an overskirt on top, you could easily push it out to ~1873), which Julie has already made. We don't know exactly where we're going to go next - since the two American war eras are so covered, market-wise, we'll probably be avoiding them and aiming for time periods that costumers like, such as the bustle eras. I'd like to do a Regency pattern, having been at least clever enough to specify in my book contract that a "competing work" would only be another book of patterns from Regency dresses. But other than that, it all depends on where we see a need at the time.
The Kickstarter prices are actually going to be a bit costlier than they will be once we're up and running, in order to make sure that the project gets funded and we can move ahead.
