Placard Dress: Design Ideas

[hsifeng]

*sounds of brain spinning and gears grinding*

Having thought about the various inspiration images from my last post, I think it is pretty clear that I am interested in making one of the ‘placard front’/high necked dresses. The gown I end up making won’t be a recreation of any specific inspiration image, but I am pulling from all three current

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[etaine_pommier]

I've just recently started to use the forebodies idea with my Saxon gowns (which the majority of these seem to be,) and had good luck with it.

I've done three of these high-necked Saxon dresses in the last year, and had good luck with almost the same construction you propose - I'd love to geek with you about it if you're interested. (You can see pictures of two of them on the Landsknecht webring under Wendy Bliss.)

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[hsifeng]

Hi there! I would be very interested in kibitzing about design ideas with you. I have seen your work on landsknecht.org and I think your garb is gorgeous! Are some of those gowns ones that you have used the forebodies on? If so, I would love to know which ones.

I love high necked gowns, but I am trying to steer clear of the plastron fronted design (i.e., the ones with the laced over Brusttuck). Then again, I may end up making a less-common version of one of those dresses out of sheer frustration if I can’t locate more consistent references for the alternate ‘placard’ style* I am contemplating.

I definitely want to make a Princess Dress, I think I just need more data.

In the meantime, my brain will keep whirring away on the details of construction, regardless. Once I feed the Muse Monkeys, it is impossible to keep them from climbing. chuckle

goes tra-la-la-ing off to friend you…

* I am currently see-sawing about the placard fronted dress after having talked to my husband and co-history snob about the ‘loosey goosey’ nature of

[docryder]

Kind of non-sequitur, but your drawings are rather well done. Just sayin'. :-)

[hsifeng]

Thank you honey! Although, I have to be honest and say that I got the basic start of the bodice in the 'whole gown' image by tracing a similar bodice front from the Tudor Tailor book. Then again, the rest is all me. *chuckle*