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Yes. I AM doing something costume related!
I'm working on a new project which I thought would be spectacular, but so far I'm only moderately happy with it. I don't know if it's the fabric or fitting issues. Will continue to work on it and present it as soon as the ground shape is finished.
I also picked up the Aminta dress again. I need some serious help from you guys. Please!
THIS is the design, by late Maria Bjørnson, ca. 1986. The skirt has five flounced layers of pink silk trimmed with black lace (newer ones has embroidery). So far so good.
My problem is that I'm unable to decide on how to achieve this effect. Should I:
1. Make a ground layer for the skirt, and attach the various flounced layers on top?
2. Should I make each flounced layer separate, all attached to the waist?
3. Other?
I've been looking at many 1840's dresses to get a clue, and most seems to stick to method number one. But both seems to be plausible. I've been pondering over this for several months now, and I'm really stuck. Any opinion, any hint, any feedback will be appreciated!
The bodice + closeup of the design. Basically finished. I need to decide whether to keep the white lace cuff seen above (a bit dull?). I also need to make the stomacher fit more "snuggly" than now - it's a bit loose. But I added a real bow to the top of the front bodice, to be able to secure the front firmly, and it helped a lot. The bow trim is a scrap from the same I used on the stomacher, and it match very well. The colours are really odd together, but it looks funky all the same.
I've tried to stick as close as possible to the costume design rather than copying the stage costumes (the design is for "Phantom of the Opera"). The stomacher has been interpreted in so many way (so many ODD ways, I might add), so I went directly to the sources. The biggest problem has been to scale the tiny-weeny torso of the design to my more... robust torso... ;)
I'm working on a new project which I thought would be spectacular, but so far I'm only moderately happy with it. I don't know if it's the fabric or fitting issues. Will continue to work on it and present it as soon as the ground shape is finished.
I also picked up the Aminta dress again. I need some serious help from you guys. Please!
THIS is the design, by late Maria Bjørnson, ca. 1986. The skirt has five flounced layers of pink silk trimmed with black lace (newer ones has embroidery). So far so good.
My problem is that I'm unable to decide on how to achieve this effect. Should I:
1. Make a ground layer for the skirt, and attach the various flounced layers on top?
2. Should I make each flounced layer separate, all attached to the waist?
3. Other?
I've been looking at many 1840's dresses to get a clue, and most seems to stick to method number one. But both seems to be plausible. I've been pondering over this for several months now, and I'm really stuck. Any opinion, any hint, any feedback will be appreciated!
The bodice + closeup of the design. Basically finished. I need to decide whether to keep the white lace cuff seen above (a bit dull?). I also need to make the stomacher fit more "snuggly" than now - it's a bit loose. But I added a real bow to the top of the front bodice, to be able to secure the front firmly, and it helped a lot. The bow trim is a scrap from the same I used on the stomacher, and it match very well. The colours are really odd together, but it looks funky all the same.
I've tried to stick as close as possible to the costume design rather than copying the stage costumes (the design is for "Phantom of the Opera"). The stomacher has been interpreted in so many way (so many ODD ways, I might add), so I went directly to the sources. The biggest problem has been to scale the tiny-weeny torso of the design to my more... robust torso... ;)