A Dedicated Follower of Fashion

Since there were a few of us in the Philly area that couldn't make it to the Francaise Dinner for various reasons, I thought it might be fun to get together and do a Costume Thing that weekend to at least sort of make up for it. To that end, we went to City Tavern yesterday for lunch - the Tavern's a perfect setting for costumed lunches, and the owner loves when people show up in costume. (Free booze. Just sayin'. And Robin doesn't drink, so I got two. Win-win.)

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The jacket proper is finished; I decided to forge on with the trim (without taking any pics, oops) rather than petticoat-painting. It's maybe-not-quite-half-trimmed? Can't stay up late sewing tonight as I have to be up early tomorrow.

Didn't quite finish the jacket as of yet but I might be able to before I go to bed? Very close!

As to the Loser Luncheon for this weekend, turns out Sunday works better, so Sunday the 13th at 2:15 at City Tavern, on the off chance anybody else was thinking of showing up!

Excellent weather today - the coldest temps of the winter so far and snow flurries were somehow very inspiring to make the most of my sewing time!

First I got the fitting done on the shoulder straps of the green pierrot jacket, and marked the CF while I was in stays. Sewed the shoulder straps and pinned in the lining for the tails - the body of the jacket is linen, but I decided to line just the tails in bronze silk scraps.

And then I felt motivated enough to actually try on the pelisse over all my gear, and decide exactly what I wanted to do with the fur. I decided I want an overlap at the front rather than edge to edge, which means there's not quite enough to do a real hem, oops. So I'm binding the CF edges instead of finishing them properly. You'll never know under the fur! Mwahahaha.

2/3rds of jacket pieces are sewn together. Back stripes on one side may have gotten a bit wobbly. Definitely don't care enough to fix. One of the many excellent traits of satin: being annoying.