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Natural form corset and a new dress
I was good today and sewed! Despite a spur-of-the-moment excursion into the city, to see the impressive amount of women braving the 25-degree weather in miniskirts. o_O. Well, not TO see them, they were just a fringe benefit. Ahh, New Year's Eve...
So I did a bit of work on my natural form corset, remember that? No? Me neither. I got it into a try-on-able state (putting that spoon busk in was all kinds of fun), and was filled with consternation when it was too damn big in the bust and hip...til I remembered that I'd accounted for all the padding I'm going to stick in there to give myself a figure. Oh, right. Carry on, then.
Still have to do a bit of flossing (nothing exciting, definitely more function than form) and the binding, but after that I can get cracking on the mockup for the dress. (ETA: Okay, flossing is too much work! I reenforced the corners of the gussets and that's good enough, I think.)
It's stupidly exciting on the floor, I know.
The dress? I'm feeling adventurous, and am liking Victorian again at the moment, so...
There's a drawing and pattern pieces in the first section of PoF2, of a Gainsborough Princesse Dress, from January of 1879, The London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.
I'm sure I could drape it, but it'll be much quicker to base it on the Truly Victorian tea gown pattern I already have! The back's almost exactly the same, and just needs some recutting of the front piece. And collar-wrangling. Ugh, collars...
And I went shopping in the stash. I wanted wool (because I have plans to wear this outside...and, y'know, winter), so that limited me a bit, as I don't have a lot of wool that's not already earmarked for other projects! I did have a (hopefully) dress-length of a purpley-blue wool that'll go nicely with a little bit of pink shantung for the "waistcoat" and raspberry-stripe taffeta for the underskirt.
If the gown pieces won't fit on this wool I do have a backup plan, but then I'll have to reconfigure my waistcoat and underskirt fabrics, and I'm rather pleased with how they go together at the moment!
I plan to wear this outdoors, so a mantle of some sort is in order, too. Just a plain one...but with marabou trim, because FEATHERS. Feathers are warm and also FAB. Color depends on which medium-weight wool I'm least attached to once I get to that point.
And yes, I do have a deadline, sort of. I want to do a Thing for my birthday in early February, but I have no idea whether that'll actually happen or not. To get myself to sew this I'm pretending it is!
So I did a bit of work on my natural form corset, remember that? No? Me neither. I got it into a try-on-able state (putting that spoon busk in was all kinds of fun), and was filled with consternation when it was too damn big in the bust and hip...til I remembered that I'd accounted for all the padding I'm going to stick in there to give myself a figure. Oh, right. Carry on, then.
Still have to do a bit of flossing (nothing exciting, definitely more function than form) and the binding, but after that I can get cracking on the mockup for the dress. (ETA: Okay, flossing is too much work! I reenforced the corners of the gussets and that's good enough, I think.)
It's stupidly exciting on the floor, I know.
The dress? I'm feeling adventurous, and am liking Victorian again at the moment, so...
There's a drawing and pattern pieces in the first section of PoF2, of a Gainsborough Princesse Dress, from January of 1879, The London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of Fashion.
I'm sure I could drape it, but it'll be much quicker to base it on the Truly Victorian tea gown pattern I already have! The back's almost exactly the same, and just needs some recutting of the front piece. And collar-wrangling. Ugh, collars...
And I went shopping in the stash. I wanted wool (because I have plans to wear this outside...and, y'know, winter), so that limited me a bit, as I don't have a lot of wool that's not already earmarked for other projects! I did have a (hopefully) dress-length of a purpley-blue wool that'll go nicely with a little bit of pink shantung for the "waistcoat" and raspberry-stripe taffeta for the underskirt.
If the gown pieces won't fit on this wool I do have a backup plan, but then I'll have to reconfigure my waistcoat and underskirt fabrics, and I'm rather pleased with how they go together at the moment!
I plan to wear this outdoors, so a mantle of some sort is in order, too. Just a plain one...but with marabou trim, because FEATHERS. Feathers are warm and also FAB. Color depends on which medium-weight wool I'm least attached to once I get to that point.
And yes, I do have a deadline, sort of. I want to do a Thing for my birthday in early February, but I have no idea whether that'll actually happen or not. To get myself to sew this I'm pretending it is!
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