Sewing: CosCon
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mandie_rwI may have lied about what I'm going to make for my Nice Costume Con dress...but I didn't know I was lying at the time! So it's okay.
I could not find taffeta in the color I liked, or for a price I liked, for that matter. I wanted a Very Specific Pink to match the teal I've got, and there weren't any I liked enough to spend $15-20/yd. on. So, hm. Ponder ponder ponder.
I briefly thought about making one of the early 1870s dresses I've got fabric for (yes, more than one...), but very very quickly got carried away with the mad amount of trimmings I want to put on both of them. I'm making a cross-stitch sampler for my friend's wedding in mid-March, and that's a thing that needs to be done on time! So -- madly trimmed 1870s dresses shall have to wait til I'm sure I'll have enough time to do them justice!
(I am getting excited about them, though...am thinking about doing 1870s for the possible Academy of Music outing instead of late 1850s. Then I won't have to make another crinoline. Distractions!)
So I've decided to make the 1790s outfit I've got fabric for (see, now I don't have to buy more fabric! Yay). I've got blue cotton voile and aquamarine silk (dupioni, OH WELLS), so I'm planning a round gown and open robe. That is subject to change without notice, of course, as I go on!
First things first...underwear. (Someday I'll eventually have made underwear for all the eras I'm interested in, and won't have to do this every damn time I make a new dress...maybe? Yeah, okay.) I could probably wear my 1780s stays, really, but it should go without saying I DONWANNA. Think I'm going to make some sort of mashup of the couple of pairs of 1790s stays in Jill Salen's Corsets book, since I don't like all the aspects of either of them. But I'll decide that after I'm finished the petticoat.
Which is what I started tonight. EXCITEMENT. It's constructed the exact same way as my other 18thc petticoats, because I doubt everyone suddenly started making petticoats in a fantastically different way in 1790. (I will of course bow to anyone who proves me wrong on that count!) Two panels of white linen, sewn to have two side seams, will tie round the front and the back. I don't think it will be too bulky in front or anything, as the round gown doesn't have a flat front like slightly later dresses do. S'poze I'll find that out!
I could not find taffeta in the color I liked, or for a price I liked, for that matter. I wanted a Very Specific Pink to match the teal I've got, and there weren't any I liked enough to spend $15-20/yd. on. So, hm. Ponder ponder ponder.
I briefly thought about making one of the early 1870s dresses I've got fabric for (yes, more than one...), but very very quickly got carried away with the mad amount of trimmings I want to put on both of them. I'm making a cross-stitch sampler for my friend's wedding in mid-March, and that's a thing that needs to be done on time! So -- madly trimmed 1870s dresses shall have to wait til I'm sure I'll have enough time to do them justice!
(I am getting excited about them, though...am thinking about doing 1870s for the possible Academy of Music outing instead of late 1850s. Then I won't have to make another crinoline. Distractions!)
So I've decided to make the 1790s outfit I've got fabric for (see, now I don't have to buy more fabric! Yay). I've got blue cotton voile and aquamarine silk (dupioni, OH WELLS), so I'm planning a round gown and open robe. That is subject to change without notice, of course, as I go on!
First things first...underwear. (Someday I'll eventually have made underwear for all the eras I'm interested in, and won't have to do this every damn time I make a new dress...maybe? Yeah, okay.) I could probably wear my 1780s stays, really, but it should go without saying I DONWANNA. Think I'm going to make some sort of mashup of the couple of pairs of 1790s stays in Jill Salen's Corsets book, since I don't like all the aspects of either of them. But I'll decide that after I'm finished the petticoat.
Which is what I started tonight. EXCITEMENT. It's constructed the exact same way as my other 18thc petticoats, because I doubt everyone suddenly started making petticoats in a fantastically different way in 1790. (I will of course bow to anyone who proves me wrong on that count!) Two panels of white linen, sewn to have two side seams, will tie round the front and the back. I don't think it will be too bulky in front or anything, as the round gown doesn't have a flat front like slightly later dresses do. S'poze I'll find that out!
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Date: 2011-02-04 04:35 am (UTC)And ditto for seeing you and your costumes in person! :D