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Gilded Age dinner: event report
Apr. 10th, 2023 10:31 amAlso, spring break at last yessss. My only goals for today are to write this post and clean up/put away all the bags that I dropped immediately inside the door after unloading the car yesterday.
Short version: I made nothing new and felt beautifully unstressed, apart from the end of the actual dinner where the tight dress and REALLY tight corset caught up with me and I had to change back into the dressing gown if I didn't want to immediately expire and go facedown into the remnants of chocolate mousse left on the table.
Strictly speaking I flouted the "1890s" dress code by wearing my 1880-82 dinner dress, but 1880s isn't THAT far off the mark, and the hostess allowed it, haha. And it's a very fetching dress, I do love the play with stripes on the bodice. Good job, Past Me.
(Unfortunately, Past Me was also about ten-fifteen pounds thinner, and had a corset that wasn't starting to spring its boning, hence the couple-of-hours expiration wear time for this outfit. Erf erf GETTIT OFF GETTIT OFF)
It's also started shredding through multiple seams on the bodice...I went over most of the stress points with GLUE last week to keep it together for one more wear, but it's definitely not something I could sell on! Taking it apart for recyclable bits is actually another goal for the week - the black silk of the train is quite salvageable, along with the buttons, boning, pleated flounce at the hem, and possibly even the cotton base/underskirt, depending on how dedicated I feel like being. I could probably save the lace too, although I got that in a lot on ebay and have something ridiculous like 100+ yards of it, so it depends on how securely I stitched it on...
It's okay, it got a few good wears and I enjoyed it while it lasted! Plus, being slightly too tight this time, made my boobs look real nice in it, which my husband appreciated LOL.
( Very much longer version )
So, that was fun! Now I want to sew All The Things,. although what I should really do is clean all the things. But what fun is that?
(Link to album, exactly none of which are my pictures! I took NONE. Thanks to people who actually care about documenting an event...https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAz6zG )
Short version: I made nothing new and felt beautifully unstressed, apart from the end of the actual dinner where the tight dress and REALLY tight corset caught up with me and I had to change back into the dressing gown if I didn't want to immediately expire and go facedown into the remnants of chocolate mousse left on the table.
Strictly speaking I flouted the "1890s" dress code by wearing my 1880-82 dinner dress, but 1880s isn't THAT far off the mark, and the hostess allowed it, haha. And it's a very fetching dress, I do love the play with stripes on the bodice. Good job, Past Me.
(Unfortunately, Past Me was also about ten-fifteen pounds thinner, and had a corset that wasn't starting to spring its boning, hence the couple-of-hours expiration wear time for this outfit. Erf erf GETTIT OFF GETTIT OFF)
It's also started shredding through multiple seams on the bodice...I went over most of the stress points with GLUE last week to keep it together for one more wear, but it's definitely not something I could sell on! Taking it apart for recyclable bits is actually another goal for the week - the black silk of the train is quite salvageable, along with the buttons, boning, pleated flounce at the hem, and possibly even the cotton base/underskirt, depending on how dedicated I feel like being. I could probably save the lace too, although I got that in a lot on ebay and have something ridiculous like 100+ yards of it, so it depends on how securely I stitched it on...
It's okay, it got a few good wears and I enjoyed it while it lasted! Plus, being slightly too tight this time, made my boobs look real nice in it, which my husband appreciated LOL.
( Very much longer version )
So, that was fun! Now I want to sew All The Things,. although what I should really do is clean all the things. But what fun is that?
(Link to album, exactly none of which are my pictures! I took NONE. Thanks to people who actually care about documenting an event...https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAz6zG )
