Finished Wool Shortgown

[kimikosews]

Yep, finished! It's been finished since before I went to West Kingdom's Collegium a couple of weekends ago, but I've been sitting on the photos until now, mostly to focus on house cleaning

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[hlwoods]

I'm just curious. I've been looking at similar designs but I'm also slowly (very slowly) losing weight. Would it be period to have lacing at both sides, on the assumption that this would make shrinking the gown easier when necessary?

[kimikosews]

I lost weight on my Tudor gown, and the kirtle for it was side laced. What I found is that it was fine to a point since I had made it too small to begin with. But once I passed that point, and I was overlapping the lacing area, I had to take it in as a seam behind the side seams where I laced it. I also had to shorten it, since there was less body to go over. Now I've gained back that weight, and will have to reverse that process.

I now prefer in general to have one lacing area, either up the front or up the back, and leave the side seams for fitting and taking in or out for weight changes. I only made this one side lacing because of the way the skirt is split. As I change sizes I will also do up the other side with lacing, but I was short on time so it was sewn shut.

[hlwoods]

I was wondering in part because the flemish kirtle two layer combos, which seem based on a similar combo, have the upper layer laced in the front, and the under layer laced ... elsewhere? (Pictures not helpful.)

I was thinking in part that moving the lacig holes as required might be easier. I'm better t adding seams than I am at unpicking.

And oh god, I so hope to have the energy to do anything other than plan within the next year or two. Or find someone who takes commissions.

[kimikosews]

Yeah, it is hard to figure out where they laced things. Some images don't show that often it is actually front opening or may be front laced even with the kirtles, which is the easiest to get into.