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mala_14Because transitional garments are few and far between, I thought I'd share this pair of stays I just found on the Victoria & Albert Museum website. I've never seen these stays before. So very cool!
In sewing news, I've been working on a 1940s style slip. I'm cutting it on the bias and using china silk, which was a bad idea. It's so light and flimsy, it seems to shift every time I so much as look at it. Cutting it out was tough, especially on the bias. But it's basically sewn together now. I tried it on and it needs a couple of adjustments due to it doing it's bias-y thing where it stretches in interesting ways. I definitely needed to use something heavier weight. The china silk doesn't have enough weight to pull it down properly, so the bias is making it stretch horizontally. This makes it wider than it needs to be and shortens everything. It has to be pulled down manually to fit properly. I'm not sure it that makes a lot of sense, so I'll stop now.:)
In sewing news, I've been working on a 1940s style slip. I'm cutting it on the bias and using china silk, which was a bad idea. It's so light and flimsy, it seems to shift every time I so much as look at it. Cutting it out was tough, especially on the bias. But it's basically sewn together now. I tried it on and it needs a couple of adjustments due to it doing it's bias-y thing where it stretches in interesting ways. I definitely needed to use something heavier weight. The china silk doesn't have enough weight to pull it down properly, so the bias is making it stretch horizontally. This makes it wider than it needs to be and shortens everything. It has to be pulled down manually to fit properly. I'm not sure it that makes a lot of sense, so I'll stop now.:)
