being sick has it's upsides!

[mlsdesigns]

i've been off work all week with a horrid cold, but now i'm finally better, i suppose i was skiving a bit maybe yesterday, but i got very tired in the afternoon, so if i'd been at work i'm sure i would have keeled over by lunch time.
anyway, i've done no sewing at all since i finished the ball gown! but i WILL start on my CC stuff tomorrow, even if all i do is dress meg in my undies and get my fabrics out to play :)
but, i do have something nice for you all! i spent most of today editing the 1 hour and forty something minutes of video into 8 more videos from the ball :) they are all up on you tube now, so here you have a link, just to make things easier it's to my 'homepage' or whatever they call it, instead of putting 8 links, or worse, embedding all 8 videos :)
http://www.youtube.com/user/mlsdesigns

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[myladyswardrobe.livejournal.com]

This is what I was thinking - that skirts weren't lined at all. Victorian crinoline skirts in portraits look very different from Tudor/Elizabethan skirts in portraits and we know that 16th century skirts were fully lined and stitched at hem and waist.

Seems that the 18th century with the sacque back gown stopped lining skirts - which does make sense when one is trying to pleat that amount of fabric into the back of a gown. Gives a more "floaty" effect rather than the stiff silhouette of the tudor period.

Thanks for your advice. Makes things a bit easier when making the gown. I suppose plenty of petticoats and ensure they have nice hems and frills etc.

[mlsdesigns.livejournal.com]

yes, lots of petticoats :) if you gather your frills on corded headers, and cord their hems too, you should get lots of body!
yes, they were certainly very poofy, look at how my skirt bobs up and down :p