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threadwalker) wrote2007-07-05 11:34 am
threadwalker) wrote2007-07-05 11:34 am
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Projects. Yay!
I was going to warp the loom on Wednesday, but I left the warping pattern at work. (boo!) But realized I needed to "make hay while the sun was shining", so I cracked the whip on another project.
I headed out to the Corbie Cave for some pinning supplies.
Gasp!
1. It was freaking hot out. 2. The door latch to the CC was too hot to handle. I went and got oven mits. 3. The interior of the CC was a sweat box. 4. I couldn't lock it up - the door warped in thickness over the winter and now I have to leverage it closed with my shoulder and whole body pressing into it. Door was too hot to maintain contact for that.
gah! Full retreat to air-conditioned safety of home. Locking the CC happened after it cooled down.
I took the new drape and tweaked it a bit. The fat in and under my armpit really needed more room, so I added some room for that. I also put in the final neckline. Then I re-cut 2 symmetric sides and made sure everything still fit, which is always follwed by adjustment for my shoulders; the left shoulder is 1 full inch higher than the right, so fitted symmetric patterns always have to be altered somewhat. (Over the years, my various chiropractors seem to have been personally challenged to fix it. lol. Shoulder: 3// chiropractors: 0. It's my shield shoulder, so go figure.) The back was (and still is) awesome. yay! Suitably armed, I got a bodice with lining cut out and pinned up. Wootie woot woot
Now what? Warp Loom on Saturday for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beanolc
Then, with new bodice pattern, make a fruit seller dress with side-back seams.
Then the ensembles for A&S.
Then I need to get back to the insane project I started on my way to Oregon in April. I came to a halt because my brain froze in indecision. I was reading (gasp - yes, actualy reading the words in the book, not just looking at the pictures) La Moda and frowning and reading and frowning. I was finally absorbing something, which was they were throwing the word "petticoat" around. I initially assumed it was a funky translation. But after enough late night reading at grandmas, I got bummed because my brain decided it meant that I really needed a bodice to hold the sleeves and skirt together. There's this great shot of a lady in a dove-gray dress they call a petticoat and my brain has decided that's what I need to finish before I finish the blue overdress. I've been in denial, hoping a 'new' idea that involves less work would pop up. poopies. I solicited feedback fromd_salie and she nudged me towards the path of underdress.
What I'm not sure of is this: is the bodice boned/stiffened or is there a separate corset? The gray one is perfectly conical and smooth. And once I figure out what I think they did, what do I want to do? I've a corset that underwent some surgery on that trip. So do I want to fit the bodice over that OR do I want to stiffen the bodice. And there is surviving evidence that corsets existed in northern Europe. Gah! at least I have time to percolate and read more. I need to dig out my other period references on "life and times" and see if someone wrote about inventories or provided other insights. I've gotten mired down on this one.
poopies!
Then we discussed cleavage (we =d_salie and I while draping). I've noticed that most of these Italian ladies don't have a lot of boob-age. One of my fitness book points out that based on climate, certain ethnicities have evolved to store fat in certain places as a survival mechanism; could it be that the subjects in these pictures are pear-shaped based on evolution? They are also younger, which may mean their boobs are not fully developed and their metabolims are at a high. And who knows if they have a nutritional diet to support body fat in the chest regardless of physical tendencies. Food for thought. (snicker!)
Regardless of the "who, why, what?", I'm looking at pictures of ladies with A or B cups. I'm currently a D. Do I perform some combination of mash 'em down and/or pad out my ribs to achieve the period silhouette? or do I alter what I perceive the pattern to be so that I can accomodate my differences? These are the questions that cause my brain to freeze up in the middle of a project.
I headed out to the Corbie Cave for some pinning supplies.
Gasp!
1. It was freaking hot out. 2. The door latch to the CC was too hot to handle. I went and got oven mits. 3. The interior of the CC was a sweat box. 4. I couldn't lock it up - the door warped in thickness over the winter and now I have to leverage it closed with my shoulder and whole body pressing into it. Door was too hot to maintain contact for that.
gah! Full retreat to air-conditioned safety of home. Locking the CC happened after it cooled down.
I took the new drape and tweaked it a bit. The fat in and under my armpit really needed more room, so I added some room for that. I also put in the final neckline. Then I re-cut 2 symmetric sides and made sure everything still fit, which is always follwed by adjustment for my shoulders; the left shoulder is 1 full inch higher than the right, so fitted symmetric patterns always have to be altered somewhat. (Over the years, my various chiropractors seem to have been personally challenged to fix it. lol. Shoulder: 3// chiropractors: 0. It's my shield shoulder, so go figure.) The back was (and still is) awesome. yay! Suitably armed, I got a bodice with lining cut out and pinned up. Wootie woot woot
Now what? Warp Loom on Saturday for
beanolcThen, with new bodice pattern, make a fruit seller dress with side-back seams.
Then the ensembles for A&S.
Then I need to get back to the insane project I started on my way to Oregon in April. I came to a halt because my brain froze in indecision. I was reading (gasp - yes, actualy reading the words in the book, not just looking at the pictures) La Moda and frowning and reading and frowning. I was finally absorbing something, which was they were throwing the word "petticoat" around. I initially assumed it was a funky translation. But after enough late night reading at grandmas, I got bummed because my brain decided it meant that I really needed a bodice to hold the sleeves and skirt together. There's this great shot of a lady in a dove-gray dress they call a petticoat and my brain has decided that's what I need to finish before I finish the blue overdress. I've been in denial, hoping a 'new' idea that involves less work would pop up. poopies. I solicited feedback from
d_salie and she nudged me towards the path of underdress.What I'm not sure of is this: is the bodice boned/stiffened or is there a separate corset? The gray one is perfectly conical and smooth. And once I figure out what I think they did, what do I want to do? I've a corset that underwent some surgery on that trip. So do I want to fit the bodice over that OR do I want to stiffen the bodice. And there is surviving evidence that corsets existed in northern Europe. Gah! at least I have time to percolate and read more. I need to dig out my other period references on "life and times" and see if someone wrote about inventories or provided other insights. I've gotten mired down on this one.
poopies!
Then we discussed cleavage (we =
d_salie and I while draping). I've noticed that most of these Italian ladies don't have a lot of boob-age. One of my fitness book points out that based on climate, certain ethnicities have evolved to store fat in certain places as a survival mechanism; could it be that the subjects in these pictures are pear-shaped based on evolution? They are also younger, which may mean their boobs are not fully developed and their metabolims are at a high. And who knows if they have a nutritional diet to support body fat in the chest regardless of physical tendencies. Food for thought. (snicker!)Regardless of the "who, why, what?", I'm looking at pictures of ladies with A or B cups. I'm currently a D. Do I perform some combination of mash 'em down and/or pad out my ribs to achieve the period silhouette? or do I alter what I perceive the pattern to be so that I can accomodate my differences? These are the questions that cause my brain to freeze up in the middle of a project.
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I am going to mini-rant for a second: I think Eleonora was a flat chested Spanish princess who refused to bend her pride to adapt or adopt to anything Florentine when she married Lorenzo. She refused to learn the language, among other things. I think it became the fashionable rage to be flat chested like her since she was married to the equivalent "power behind the thrones" in Florence.
There's my anti-d'Medici sentiment for the day. LOL.
(I highly recommend "Bloody April", which is about her hubby and his rise to power in Florence.)
TGIF