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Jul. 26th, 2016 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mandie_rwBe impressed, I picked the rainbow trout dress back up today! Did a couple of hand-tacking spots on the bodice that I forgot I hadn't finished, and cut out and started sewing sleeves. They are very large sleeves.
Same shape as the sleeves on the green lawn dress, except these are 6" longer, and some mysterious amount wider, too, which will allow for some kind of scrunching up and sticking of bow/flower on top of said scrunching.
I also found what I want to make for my New Castle day dress (yeah, I'm already planning for December!), in Englishwomen's Clothing in the 19th Century: an 1832 plate of a carriage dress. (Crappy cell phone pic, sorry.)
You can't really tell here, but I can assure you it's a striped pelisse. Over a muslin gown, which doesn't sound very appealing for Christmas-time! Currently my brilliant idea is to use a plum and ivory 1/8" striped taffeta I have for the pelisse, and acquire some purple wool for the dress. I might have to revise this eventually, depending on the availability and cost of purple wool that I like...but for right now I'm very chuffed with this idea!
Same shape as the sleeves on the green lawn dress, except these are 6" longer, and some mysterious amount wider, too, which will allow for some kind of scrunching up and sticking of bow/flower on top of said scrunching.
I also found what I want to make for my New Castle day dress (yeah, I'm already planning for December!), in Englishwomen's Clothing in the 19th Century: an 1832 plate of a carriage dress. (Crappy cell phone pic, sorry.)
You can't really tell here, but I can assure you it's a striped pelisse. Over a muslin gown, which doesn't sound very appealing for Christmas-time! Currently my brilliant idea is to use a plum and ivory 1/8" striped taffeta I have for the pelisse, and acquire some purple wool for the dress. I might have to revise this eventually, depending on the availability and cost of purple wool that I like...but for right now I'm very chuffed with this idea!
