On the costume front, Thor's pants are made, I traced out and graded up a vintage 1944 women's Eisenhower jacket for the rest of the uniform. Traced because I was not using a fragile 70 year old tissue pattern. Graded because I could only find it in "tiny teenager size" and neither I nor my model have a 30 inch bust and 25 inch waist. Ah, 1940s size 12... The jacket has now been cut out. Cap's overalls need the zipper and the buttonholes done. I've started on the mock up for the Iron Man dress and am having panic about it and getting it done. I am not standard clothing sized or shaped. I've started stitching the millinery buckram together for the hat. Then took it apart. (Do not try to math at 2am.) Cannot find my millinery wire. I have red satin gloves and sheer stockings with red Cuban heels and backseams on their way. I'm still waiting for my LED disc to arrive and getting increasingly nervous whether it will get here in time.
ETA: Turns out I'll be on a panel at con. Cool beans. At 10am on Sunday. Not so cool.
On a personal front, ugh. I keep being inundated with reminders of how someone who used to be major part of my life isn't any more. Things that remind me of her, events that once I would have known right away only finding out weeks later, things I want to get or make her to make her smile but now would be awkward to give. It hurts to still love someone to whom I meant so little as to suddenly and randomly warrant months of silence. I'm tired and humiliated trying to get a little of the attention I used to. No explanation, nothing.
I always trace my patterns instead of cutting them after a friend suggested that to me a few years back. They go back into the envelope much easier then, let me tell you.
Tracing out patterns takes a lot of time and is a pain in the ass, but it saves a lot of money if you're using a patterns from a smaller company that you can't get on mega sale at Joanns or Hancocks.
How would... How would one achieve a 25 inch waist and a 30 inch bust in the 1940s? I thought augmentation was a much more recent invention. Is that corset related?
Also, Sorry about the personal thing. That's a rough spot to be in and one that takes a lot of time to get out from under.
They're not unreasonable teenager/small woman proportions; the pattern is for someone about 12-14 years old. The full adult pattern proportions are six inches bust to waist and nine inches waist to hip. These are five bust to waist and eight waist to hips. Modern adult women's patterns do eight bust to waist and ten waist to hip. Keep in mind these are drafted with an idealized figure in mind and if they don't match with yours, you modify the pattern so it fits. Also, people in general were smaller and you didn't have as great a percentage of people with an apple shape. But, yes, figure enhancement was done, much the same way it is now: padded bras, elasticated girdles (see: Spanx), etc.
ETA: Turns out I'll be on a panel at con. Cool beans. At 10am on Sunday. Not so cool.
On a personal front, ugh. I keep being inundated with reminders of how someone who used to be major part of my life isn't any more. Things that remind me of her, events that once I would have known right away only finding out weeks later, things I want to get or make her to make her smile but now would be awkward to give. It hurts to still love someone to whom I meant so little as to suddenly and randomly warrant months of silence. I'm tired and humiliated trying to get a little of the attention I used to. No explanation, nothing.
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Those costumes sound like they'll be amazing!
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I hope I get them done!
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Also, Sorry about the personal thing. That's a rough spot to be in and one that takes a lot of time to get out from under.
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Good luck with your costuming! I look forward to seeing it when done.
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