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So the stays workshop in Williamsburg this past weekend was awesome. I had fun and I feel like I learned a lot. AND I've got the start of a lovely pair of 1780s stays, and I feel more confidant about drafting up some earlier stays as well. Knowing how they should fit and where they should be was always my biggest stumbling block, after all. I ( Read more... )

Finally posted my Dress U pics! It's a combination of my own and ones stolen from others.

I don't have pictures of Friday night and Saturday day for myself, but I did get the rest, so here's the quick list of what I wore:

( Saturday Night Titanic Dinner )

So excited with how my Titanic gown is looking! The sari I picked out for it is so gorgeous and absolutely perfect.


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I'm really happy with how my Titanic dinner gown is coming along. It looks awesome already, so I've got high hopes for getting pretty close to done tomorrow. \o ( Read more... )

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The green dress is almost finished. I just need to do the last bits of tacking down the binding in the bodice and add the closures and buttons. The skirts are completely finished, and even have actual skirt hooks for closing, so I won't be safety pinning myself into it for once ( Read more... )

taking a short break from the green gown, I put some thought to what I want for the Gibson girl pool party, and I think I'm going to go with more of an early teens day gown, something like this dress though with a red and white color scheme instead. (and trim rather than embroidery, with time constraints) And I picked up a red hat earlier that with ( Read more... )

Corset is almost finished! I just need to put in the grommets, the hooks and eyes that go below the busk, and the garters. So either tomorrow or Tuesday, depending on how late we are getting back from fabric shopping in NYC.

Photo proof!

After I finished the right half:

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I actually sewed today \o/ I've got most of a teens corset pieced, and I'll probably do the last bit of assembly tonight after a dinner break, and tomorrow I need to run out and pick up some tape to make boning casings with.

I'm using jenthompson's corset pattern, since it's not complicated, and it's not super tiny, which means I didn't need to practically ( Read more... )