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The end of the semester approaches, and despite summer semester starting immediately after that (actually, it starts before all my finals are even over, which I think is rude), I'm taking some time for CADD. It's been awhile!
And, weirdly enough, it's about 19-teens. I know. Much wow. But there's a 1918/Great War event in August up in North Jersey that the Usual Suspects and I were invited to, which will still be while I'm in one of my classes, but it's an online one so FIGHT ME, I'M GOING ANYWAY.
Now, I don't like late teens. Along with 1920s, I think they're dumpy and stumpy and generally kind of unflattering on anyone with a bigger hip than bust measurement! I do, however, think the slightly earlier A-line skirts are cute...the ones you see 1915 up through about early 1917. And...this will be an event with a lot of boys, who certainly aren't going to notice if the cut of somebody's skirt is a couple years out of date! And it's wartime, right? Out of date is okay!
I'm trying to keep to the stash, plus I want another delightfully impractical summery dress (yeah, this will limit what I can wear it to, but...how many 1918 events to I actually go to, ever?), plus I've always like the summer whites of the Edwardian period, and there's definitely still a holdout from those lingerie dresses into the late teens. I love the overall feel of this outfit, although I have no intention of trying to replicate it exactly (see: lazy).
We're going commercial-pattern with this one; I really am getting casual in my old age. ;) Probably this c1915 pattern from Past Patterns, although I haven't bought it yet. And I might do something else with the skirt; there are some funky drapey skirt things on my Pinterest board that might be fun to do instead (the "handkerchief-hem"-type overskirt out of light fabrics seems to have been popular in 1916), but a skirt is easy to fuss with. It's the collar and sleeves I mainly want a pattern for, and I like the ones on this pattern.
And I also need new linens (because otherwise I'll be wearing my 18thc shift; my Victorian combies have very high necklines, not to mention my 1860s drawers would probably hang out from under the hem of a cute little 1916 frock, cause they're so long! which would be A Look), so I'm going to buy the Wearing History teens combinations and corset cover patterns. The current question is whether I feel like spending more money for convenience, or spending less money but printing out and taping 7000 pages together...
(Could I figure combinations and corset covers out myself? Yes. Have I done so in the past? Also yes. Do I feel like spending the time and brainpower to do so? Nope.)
Also, hats. I have enough of my tax return still set aside for play money that I won't feel bad about spending 20 or 30 bucks on some straw blanks, just for funsies! The Usual Suspects get to be the beneficiaries of my occasional spate of YAY HATS urges, LOL...and then I get to make crappy practice hats and pawn them off on people. ;)
And, weirdly enough, it's about 19-teens. I know. Much wow. But there's a 1918/Great War event in August up in North Jersey that the Usual Suspects and I were invited to, which will still be while I'm in one of my classes, but it's an online one so FIGHT ME, I'M GOING ANYWAY.
Now, I don't like late teens. Along with 1920s, I think they're dumpy and stumpy and generally kind of unflattering on anyone with a bigger hip than bust measurement! I do, however, think the slightly earlier A-line skirts are cute...the ones you see 1915 up through about early 1917. And...this will be an event with a lot of boys, who certainly aren't going to notice if the cut of somebody's skirt is a couple years out of date! And it's wartime, right? Out of date is okay!
I'm trying to keep to the stash, plus I want another delightfully impractical summery dress (yeah, this will limit what I can wear it to, but...how many 1918 events to I actually go to, ever?), plus I've always like the summer whites of the Edwardian period, and there's definitely still a holdout from those lingerie dresses into the late teens. I love the overall feel of this outfit, although I have no intention of trying to replicate it exactly (see: lazy).
We're going commercial-pattern with this one; I really am getting casual in my old age. ;) Probably this c1915 pattern from Past Patterns, although I haven't bought it yet. And I might do something else with the skirt; there are some funky drapey skirt things on my Pinterest board that might be fun to do instead (the "handkerchief-hem"-type overskirt out of light fabrics seems to have been popular in 1916), but a skirt is easy to fuss with. It's the collar and sleeves I mainly want a pattern for, and I like the ones on this pattern.
And I also need new linens (because otherwise I'll be wearing my 18thc shift; my Victorian combies have very high necklines, not to mention my 1860s drawers would probably hang out from under the hem of a cute little 1916 frock, cause they're so long! which would be A Look), so I'm going to buy the Wearing History teens combinations and corset cover patterns. The current question is whether I feel like spending more money for convenience, or spending less money but printing out and taping 7000 pages together...
(Could I figure combinations and corset covers out myself? Yes. Have I done so in the past? Also yes. Do I feel like spending the time and brainpower to do so? Nope.)
Also, hats. I have enough of my tax return still set aside for play money that I won't feel bad about spending 20 or 30 bucks on some straw blanks, just for funsies! The Usual Suspects get to be the beneficiaries of my occasional spate of YAY HATS urges, LOL...and then I get to make crappy practice hats and pawn them off on people. ;)
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