I feel like I'm in the last quarter mile of a 5k here.

[mellymel_cos]

I'm trying desperately to catch up on everything. I have no idea how I got this far behind in ALL THE THINGS, but I have and it's frustrating. I was over 200 entries behind on LJ reading. I know this because they won't let you go back farther than 200 entries on your friends list. I've got it down to under 80 now and still plugging away. If

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[aranel13]

Odd. Syfabrics has always shipped USPS Priority to me. UPS might be getting cheaper.

[mellymell]

That's what I remembered too, but I haven't ordered from them in a long time, so I wasn't sure. I think USPS is getting more expensive and UPS might be getting cheaper. I know Priority is almost never the cheapest option at Dharma anymore.

[mellymell]

I keep up with Twitter enough to know that there were some entries I wanted to see. So, I opted to at least go back and skim whatever I could to try and catch up. Normally, I'd just declare friends list bankruptcy, but for those entries...

[belluthien]

Looking good my dear!

And as to keeping up, well... I seem to entirely fail at that. It has become hit and miss. (I have some on email notification if they post- even THAT's getting hard!)
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[mellymell]

Thanks!

Well, it looks like I'm in good enough company not to sweat falling behind here so much. Now if I could catch up in every single other area of life...

[cleopatramwi]

Oooh, pretty! Trying to keep up just sends me into a guilt spiral, I've given up and accepted that I'm just useless :)

[mellymell]

Thanks!

Ha! Meh, I don't know if you can call it useless. It's just hard to keep up with internet life when you're living a real life, I guess.

[laughingmagpie]

It's looking beautiful! I've been curious about evadress patterns, so it's cool to see one being made 'for real'.

I'm sure they had butts in the '30s ;-), but they weren't in fashion. Your dress is from the period that they were just starting to move away from the boyish straight figure of the '20s to acknowledging some curves, but they were nowhere near the hourglass silhouette as yet.

So, the corset/girdle of the time concentrated on making the waist and hips into a narrow column and the bra (if worn at all) wouldn't give a lot of lift, just a bit of separation and support.

I wouldn't be surprised if the dress was meant to blouse a little over the waist (more like in the made-sample than the drawing on the pattern), and the hips are probably meant to be the most fitted part of the dress.

I'm only mentioning this stuff because maybe it will help with understanding where the pattern is coming from - I *love* what you are doing with the fitting and alterations!

[mellymell]

I have very few complaints about it, thus far! I've never done a vintage pattern, so I don't know if these are her instructions or the ones from the original pattern. I love how every notch is numbered and you just sew seams in numerical order, rather than having to try to decipher modern pattern steps. That mess was what made me start draping/drafting my own.

I'm so glad you're here. ;)

A lot of what you say here echoes my own contemplations on what I think the shape/fitting was meant to be. Knowing that does help to understand why it is the way it is and to change it to what I want it to be. I don't know much about the period, so I wasn't sure. I felt like I was making a choice between the illustration that made me love the design and the real-life way the dress was supposed to be.

Thanks for the insight and vintage expertise! :)