Bird dress mocked up
Aug. 7th, 2015 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwAlso, petticoat. Finished the petticoat yesterday; it wants a ruffle I think but I'm going to be smart and wait til I have all vital parts of the dress put together (bodice, sleeves, you know), because I did not overbuy on yardage this time.
Looks very petticoat-ish. And nice and short, because you know that's how I like my petticoats whenever possible.
And I mocked up the bodice, which was fairly painless - just redrew a few lines on my striped silk anglaise bodice pattern and did a bit of fitting. Cut the lining all from bits in the scrap bin...which explains the funny piecing in front, haha.
And at that point I thought I'd probably better figure out exactly what style of dress I'm making! I've been waffling between a long polonaise and a caraco (jacket) polonaise, with an approximately equal argument in favor of either. What to do, what to do. And then! Genius idea! How about a compromise...a circassienne? Or...something circassienne-adjacent, anyway, with the short skirt, but without the short-sleeve-over-long-sleeve style, which a large majority of dresses termed "circassienne" seem to have. There are so many slight variations of late-18thc gowns that I get a little lost in what to call something that specific. I'm going to call it a short polonaise until someone yells at me...and I think more people have heard of a polonaise than a circassienne anyway. When talking about people who know things about 18thc dress terms in the first place. Details.
So I get my fun looped up skirts, but have more fabric left over for trim - best of both worlds, no? Draping tomorrow!
Looks very petticoat-ish. And nice and short, because you know that's how I like my petticoats whenever possible.
And I mocked up the bodice, which was fairly painless - just redrew a few lines on my striped silk anglaise bodice pattern and did a bit of fitting. Cut the lining all from bits in the scrap bin...which explains the funny piecing in front, haha.
And at that point I thought I'd probably better figure out exactly what style of dress I'm making! I've been waffling between a long polonaise and a caraco (jacket) polonaise, with an approximately equal argument in favor of either. What to do, what to do. And then! Genius idea! How about a compromise...a circassienne? Or...something circassienne-adjacent, anyway, with the short skirt, but without the short-sleeve-over-long-sleeve style, which a large majority of dresses termed "circassienne" seem to have. There are so many slight variations of late-18thc gowns that I get a little lost in what to call something that specific. I'm going to call it a short polonaise until someone yells at me...and I think more people have heard of a polonaise than a circassienne anyway. When talking about people who know things about 18thc dress terms in the first place. Details.
So I get my fun looped up skirts, but have more fabric left over for trim - best of both worlds, no? Draping tomorrow!
