Chemise Post #14: My chemise gown
Originally published at Historical Personality Disorder. Please leave any comments there.
As you saw in the previous post, I worked off of my notes for the Platt Hall chemise and wound up taking some shortcuts, like machine sewing everything. At that point I didn’t have the time to handsew every seam. The toughest part was figuring out how the shoulder piece attached to the front and back of the gown, and then eyeballing the armhole shape once the shoulders were attached. In the end, this is how it all turned out:
Not sure why I have the bitchy look on my face, because I was pretty happy. Champagne, the gorgeous countryside of southern France… I mean, what’s to hate?
My favorite pic from the trip. It looks like the still from a movie.
The hardest thing to figure out ended up having enough fabric in the dress. I stuck fairly closely to the Platt Hall measurements, and as you can see, it’s not very full on me. Also, I wore a small pad under my petticoat… Um. Probably won’t bother next time as it threw the line of the skirt off.
There’s a lot more that needs to be investigated as far as construction goes, and I can’t wait for next month!
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