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A new plan
Jan. 21st, 2010 12:35 pmI said the other day I had decided to make something that might alter my seing plans fro the next few weeks :) Well, one of the things I bought on ebay this last week was this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250559311839&ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT#ht_500wt_975 it came a couple of days ago and is lovely, it's the perfect pelerine for an 1820s-30s dress. While I was at work that day I was browsing through the Tidens Toej website and fell in love with this http://tidenstoej.natmus.dk/periode1/dragt.asp?ID=87 so when I got home to find the lace I thought "ooh, perfect for each other!" We're going to a Regency Tea dance at the end of February, I was just going to wear one of my Regency day dresses, but now I think I want to make the dress and a chemisette for the lace!!
I have some pale green silk taffeta from the LA garment district, they had a 4yd remnant and I liked the colour so much I thought I might as well buy it as not, and think of something to do with it later! I'm really fed up that I can't make the zoom work on the website, but it looks like the dress is a figured silk with satin for the rouleaux, but if I'm using taffeta I think it'd work for the rouleaux as well. Also, because I want to wear it for an afternoon dance I think I might change the sleeves out for short very puffy puff sleeves with either long net undersleeves or taffeta ones, or maybe both, and have them both detachable so I can wear it without the chemisette as a ball gown if I want to. I think I'm also going to make it ankle length, better to dance in and I love the look of the later shorter dresses with shoes showing :D
I was thinking about what undies to wear, and decided on my 1860s corset, it's the gusseted style, and works really well under my 1830s dress, and my Regency stays have shoulder straps, which won't work under this dress. Then petticoats, I was thinking about my flounced 1830s petticoat, but if I use that then I might not have enough fabric to make the gown skirt big enough, so then I thought about finishing my corded petticoat and just wearing one petticoat over that, or that might be too big as well, in which case maybe a petticoat the same shape as the gown skirt with lots of tucks and or cording or frills might be the best option, on a bodice like the gown bodice. I'm so excited! Wow, CADD has hit me hard!!
I have some pale green silk taffeta from the LA garment district, they had a 4yd remnant and I liked the colour so much I thought I might as well buy it as not, and think of something to do with it later! I'm really fed up that I can't make the zoom work on the website, but it looks like the dress is a figured silk with satin for the rouleaux, but if I'm using taffeta I think it'd work for the rouleaux as well. Also, because I want to wear it for an afternoon dance I think I might change the sleeves out for short very puffy puff sleeves with either long net undersleeves or taffeta ones, or maybe both, and have them both detachable so I can wear it without the chemisette as a ball gown if I want to. I think I'm also going to make it ankle length, better to dance in and I love the look of the later shorter dresses with shoes showing :D
I was thinking about what undies to wear, and decided on my 1860s corset, it's the gusseted style, and works really well under my 1830s dress, and my Regency stays have shoulder straps, which won't work under this dress. Then petticoats, I was thinking about my flounced 1830s petticoat, but if I use that then I might not have enough fabric to make the gown skirt big enough, so then I thought about finishing my corded petticoat and just wearing one petticoat over that, or that might be too big as well, in which case maybe a petticoat the same shape as the gown skirt with lots of tucks and or cording or frills might be the best option, on a bodice like the gown bodice. I'm so excited! Wow, CADD has hit me hard!!
