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mandie_rwI wuz bad. With all the beading I have to do on Black Diamonds...oh wells.
After refreshing my friends' page on here about a thousand times last night, and figuring out no one was updating their journal just to give me something to do, I decided sewing something might be a good idea. Somehow I ended up pulling out Bradfield's Costume in Detail, staring at the gowns I particularly like in it, and next thing I knew I was wrestling Mabel into her stays so I could drape the bodice of the gown I want to use the cranberry wool for. (Believe me, Mabel does not like being put into those stays. I'm always afraid she'll explode out of them, which is why I only put her in my old stays. Doesn't matter so much if she breaks them. Fatass. I shouldn't complain, at least I can put her in stays, since she's foam!)
Speaking of stays...I need new stays. (Not my loverly 1780s stays; these are based on the 1770 Diderot stays.) When I put my stays on to adjust the fit on the bodice, they laced all the way closed, which they did not use to do! (Like I needed more proof I've lost weight...sigh.) To be fair, I didn't originally make them for me; I made them for a friend to wear, a few years ago, but ended up keeping them. She's similar enough to my shape and size that when my first pair of stays (now on Mabel!) got ratty, I just appropriated them for myself rather than make a new pair. They were a titch bigger around than I make my stays, and about a half inch shorter in the waist, but close enough. Now they don't fit properly any more. Need a smaller pair. It's not a pressing need, but after I finish the gown, if nothing else jumps out and catches my attention as needing to be made, I'll make a new pair of 1770 stays.
...No, I could not just wear the 1780s stays. I'm absolutely that person. :D
And yes, I'm using the same pattern, so it's not completely idiotic to make the gown and then a new pair of stays!
Anyway, so I draped the bodice on Mabel. I ended up having to make the whole thing about an inch longer when I tried it on me for the fit, but besides that there were hardly any adjustments to do. I'm always suspicious when that happens, but we'll see. It's only a front piece, a back piece, and the shoulder strap, so it's not that complicated anyway! I hope.
These two Costume in Detail dresses are my primary inspiration. I'm mostly copying the the first dress, as I like the trim and the fan-shaped cuffs (yeah, so much for a plain work dress, huh? *smirk*), but I don't want a separate pinned-in stomacher, so I'm taking the idea of the second dress's false stomacher. Well, except that that dress has a folded band to make the appearance of the stomacher, whereas I'm constructing my dress and stomacher separately, and then stitching the stomacher in, but whatever.
I completely finished draping the thing, and even got the paper pattern cut out. I restrained myself from actually cutting any of the linen for the lining or the wool, because I know I'd be tempted to start sewing it, and DUDE. HALLOWEEN.
After refreshing my friends' page on here about a thousand times last night, and figuring out no one was updating their journal just to give me something to do, I decided sewing something might be a good idea. Somehow I ended up pulling out Bradfield's Costume in Detail, staring at the gowns I particularly like in it, and next thing I knew I was wrestling Mabel into her stays so I could drape the bodice of the gown I want to use the cranberry wool for. (Believe me, Mabel does not like being put into those stays. I'm always afraid she'll explode out of them, which is why I only put her in my old stays. Doesn't matter so much if she breaks them. Fatass. I shouldn't complain, at least I can put her in stays, since she's foam!)
Speaking of stays...I need new stays. (Not my loverly 1780s stays; these are based on the 1770 Diderot stays.) When I put my stays on to adjust the fit on the bodice, they laced all the way closed, which they did not use to do! (Like I needed more proof I've lost weight...sigh.) To be fair, I didn't originally make them for me; I made them for a friend to wear, a few years ago, but ended up keeping them. She's similar enough to my shape and size that when my first pair of stays (now on Mabel!) got ratty, I just appropriated them for myself rather than make a new pair. They were a titch bigger around than I make my stays, and about a half inch shorter in the waist, but close enough. Now they don't fit properly any more. Need a smaller pair. It's not a pressing need, but after I finish the gown, if nothing else jumps out and catches my attention as needing to be made, I'll make a new pair of 1770 stays.
...No, I could not just wear the 1780s stays. I'm absolutely that person. :D
And yes, I'm using the same pattern, so it's not completely idiotic to make the gown and then a new pair of stays!
Anyway, so I draped the bodice on Mabel. I ended up having to make the whole thing about an inch longer when I tried it on me for the fit, but besides that there were hardly any adjustments to do. I'm always suspicious when that happens, but we'll see. It's only a front piece, a back piece, and the shoulder strap, so it's not that complicated anyway! I hope.
These two Costume in Detail dresses are my primary inspiration. I'm mostly copying the the first dress, as I like the trim and the fan-shaped cuffs (yeah, so much for a plain work dress, huh? *smirk*), but I don't want a separate pinned-in stomacher, so I'm taking the idea of the second dress's false stomacher. Well, except that that dress has a folded band to make the appearance of the stomacher, whereas I'm constructing my dress and stomacher separately, and then stitching the stomacher in, but whatever.
I completely finished draping the thing, and even got the paper pattern cut out. I restrained myself from actually cutting any of the linen for the lining or the wool, because I know I'd be tempted to start sewing it, and DUDE. HALLOWEEN.
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