A Dedicated Follower of Fashion

Because this is already the year of the Unfinished Things, so who cares if I add another one?

(Besides the bin of Things, which will very much resent a bustle skirt being stuffed in!)

I'm just not feeling the new pink bustle dress. I was good today! I basted the skirt to the waistband, fiddled with the bustle, messed with the petticoats, and tried it all on, and marked the hem. And even stuck on some trim possiblilies, all of which I hated, btw. Hate the velvet ribbon, hate the pink shantung, dislike the black lace. Self trim is probably the way to go, as I started out with a 15-yard roll of the stuff.

So. I'm thinking bustle's not really my thing. (I did say that about Regency at one point, I know.) At the moment anyway. I have one bustle dress, so far appropriate for all occasions I need bustle-era somethings for! It's been too long since I made anything 18thc.

Not that that's what I'm going to do now, either. Going to clean up all the bustle-related crap strewn around, and finish and/or start my late 16thc jacket and kirtle for the Ren Faire.

...unless no-one wants to go any more, in which case plase do tell me and I'll make my 1780s curtain dress instead! *smirk*

I cut out all the pieces for the underskirt and sewed them together today.

So I guess that means I'm making it, then? *grin*

I was supremely industrious and decided to line the entire skirt; believe me, this is a feat! I hate fully lining skirts. The shot cotton's fairly lightweight, though, so it really needed it. I used some polished cotton (also pink) that I just happened to have thirteen or so yards of laying around.

Not exciting enough yet for a picture, but I like how it looks so far! The fabric, I mean...I had my doubts about it, because it looks kind of lame up close, but at a distance of a couple feet it looks fine.

Does this mean it's too late to sew a few boring eyelets on the Pennsbury stays? SIGH. I guess not...