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Happy (rainy) Independence Day!
Jul. 4th, 2016 09:42 pmWell, rainy if you're on this particular part of the east coast, hence being at home rather than out watching fireworks.
I was reasonably productive today; made the base skirt for a new natural form dress for Belvidere. That's definitely not what I need next, but my 1830s ballgown fabric won't be here for about a week, so I may as well get as far as I can on this! (Which isn't all that far, as I need to order a couple TV patterns but, um, blew my budget on fabric last night, so that'll have to wait a bit.)
There's a grey cotton print dress, c1880, in Costume in Detail that I'm inspired by, but I'm changing up quite a few things, most obviously that the dress in CiD buttons down the back, and I'm not doing that! I'm going to be lazy and not do very much tweaking from the TV patterns I'm using, so the overskirt and bodice will be a bit different too. I really like the knife pleated flounces on the original, though, so I'm keeping those.
I really wanted a dress that me-in-1880-or-so might have worn, since I tend make things that are a little closer to "high fashion" in my costuming, and are usually out of range of what historical-me might have been able to afford. I also wanted something I could work in - maybe historical-me was a shop girl of some sort - and I want to wear it to actual work (for Halloween when we're allowed to dress up, not because I'm just that crazy), at least partially because perverse me likes to completely boggle people's minds that people Back Then actually wore those clothes and managed to function (OMG NO WAY)...
So here's the underskirt, sans flounces (please ignore piles of crap in background):
And the print in more of a close-up:
It's just a plain old cotton print off the keepsake wall at Joann's from a few years ago when our old store closed (and has been discontinued so I best be careful with my cutting!), and is lined in a light green cotton solid that I got on clearance for $1.20/yd last week. It's all machine sewn except for where I tacked down the edge of the print with big horrible stitches. The skirt is the same cut as my other natural form skirts (pieces from the TV 1878 underskirt pattern, with the directions cheerfully ignored as usual), and has a drawstring channel at the back of the knees to hold the skirts in, so it can be worn more loosely if need be, for practical purposes!
I was reasonably productive today; made the base skirt for a new natural form dress for Belvidere. That's definitely not what I need next, but my 1830s ballgown fabric won't be here for about a week, so I may as well get as far as I can on this! (Which isn't all that far, as I need to order a couple TV patterns but, um, blew my budget on fabric last night, so that'll have to wait a bit.)
There's a grey cotton print dress, c1880, in Costume in Detail that I'm inspired by, but I'm changing up quite a few things, most obviously that the dress in CiD buttons down the back, and I'm not doing that! I'm going to be lazy and not do very much tweaking from the TV patterns I'm using, so the overskirt and bodice will be a bit different too. I really like the knife pleated flounces on the original, though, so I'm keeping those.
I really wanted a dress that me-in-1880-or-so might have worn, since I tend make things that are a little closer to "high fashion" in my costuming, and are usually out of range of what historical-me might have been able to afford. I also wanted something I could work in - maybe historical-me was a shop girl of some sort - and I want to wear it to actual work (for Halloween when we're allowed to dress up, not because I'm just that crazy), at least partially because perverse me likes to completely boggle people's minds that people Back Then actually wore those clothes and managed to function (OMG NO WAY)...
So here's the underskirt, sans flounces (please ignore piles of crap in background):
And the print in more of a close-up:
It's just a plain old cotton print off the keepsake wall at Joann's from a few years ago when our old store closed (and has been discontinued so I best be careful with my cutting!), and is lined in a light green cotton solid that I got on clearance for $1.20/yd last week. It's all machine sewn except for where I tacked down the edge of the print with big horrible stitches. The skirt is the same cut as my other natural form skirts (pieces from the TV 1878 underskirt pattern, with the directions cheerfully ignored as usual), and has a drawstring channel at the back of the knees to hold the skirts in, so it can be worn more loosely if need be, for practical purposes!
