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Originally Posted by bjones6416
Which book did you use? I've got "The Cut of Women's Clothes" by Norah Waugh, although I've never been brave enough to attempt anything from it. I made my shortgown this weekend from this drawing, but it's just one piece of fabric and hard to mess up. I love the relaxed fit of it, though, and the fact that it hides my inappropriate underpinnings! I don't do any formal reenactment, anyway -- I just try to dress appropriately for whatever kind of spinning demo I'm doing. |
I have that book too, but I think I made most of my clothes from
"Patterns of Fashion 1: 1660-1860" by Janet Arnold I have more recently (now that I've added 40 pounds more and don't fit in those dresses) made a shortgown too, but it was all square cuts. We strive to match the originals, and they seem to have not wanted to waste fabric with making curves to fit a waist. We also have to use original fabrics - wool, cotton, linen. But yours certainly looks perfect! Maybe I'll switch into school demo work, now that I'm getting out of "it's 95 degrees out here and I have 4 layers on including a corset" re-enacting.