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Completed wedding corset dress

Feb 17, 2013 14:13

Hello community! I am coming up for air and rest after a month and a half of non-stop sewing. I accepted a custom corset wedding dress commission at the beginning of January for a wedding Valentines Day weekend (yesterday was the wedding), and then let my weak-willed heart sucker me into an 11th-hour wedding dress for a friend whose fiancé was ( Read more... )

formal, finished!, corsetry, wedding

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eggies_red_dres February 18 2013, 21:27:55 UTC

Holy zimolies. 25 hours over 4 days? /tips hat/ Nicely played!

As for the other bridal garment, looks just fantastic. Loving the write up as well. Are you using the bone tipping dies from Farthingales? did you find they were worth the investment? utterly fab pinker. I have a hand held set, much more difficult to use! LOL

peacecat3 February 18 2013, 21:50:28 UTC

Thanks, lady! Yeah, 25 hours in 4 days while working a full time job during the day. When Valentine's Day rolled about, though I'd been invited to the wedding, I stayed home and slept for about 11 hours. Add that to the work I'd done on the other dress, and I'm still feeling it, and now it's Monday ( ... )

eggies_red_dres February 18 2013, 22:10:00 UTC

There is a huge amount of tacit technical understanding of the input materials and their treatment. As a seamstress, you can develop preference for certain combination of fabrics/ fusible/ embellishment styles because your working equipment supports it, inventory supports it. When a client comes in with an aesthetic built around different values of the cover materials, things begin to get ... interesting. So far, my charges have been minimal, and probably just about covered cost of keeping me in pins. Because my time frames are built around certain cover materials. I get thrown upholstery leather, and the time-frames go out the window as I essentially did R&D for a completely new material.

In short, I understand a little about how you stretch yourself working with clients. Not a lot, certainly there are corset makers who've been at this for both longer and less time, and have accomplished much more than myself!

And I would have slept too. Sheesh, how I would have slept.

illustrious_cre March 30 2013, 02:28:56 UTC

What a great job! Loved reading your write up, couldn't agree more with the muslin comment :) I made something very similar for a difficult bride, on a much cheaper budget and my dilemma consisted of buying 4m of her fabric in the wrong 'shade' of white and footing the bill for it. Nightmare. Like yourself, many lessons learnt, not limited to #no more 'mates rates' commissions.

But really, beautiful professional finishes, lovely.