New sleeve

[mala_14]

I drafted up a new sleeve with a much shallower sleevehead. And it fits so much better! There isn't any more pulling and I can move my arm around, both forward and up! It has a little bit of wrinkling in the front of the arm, which was bothering me. But upon looking at pictures of people who made up the Past Patterns gown (which has a similar pattern construction to mine) and portraits from the era, that front wrinkle just seems to be a thing. The back has just the right kind of wrinkling also. So I am very happy with this new sleeve and am about to cut it out in the real fabric. :D
These 1803 portraits show the same wrinkling/creasing at the front of the arm by the armpit:

Comments

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Go you! Good eye on figuring out the wrinkling both front and back. It's so counterintuitive, but it at least makes sense when you realize that wrinkles = room to move. I have that PP pattern, and also found it VERY illuminating in the way things fit together. The "point" at the back really made sense for the first time.

[mala-14.livejournal.com]

Thanks Ginger! Wrinkles are weird things, because we're always trying to get rid of them, but Regency dresses with small backs seem to necessitate wrinkles if you want to move. Mine doesn't have near the same right angle between the back and side so it doesn't need the point, but I get it now too. It's interesting how the sleeve shape is evolving from the 18th c. style in that way. (I totally saw pics of you in that dress while doing this sleeve research! They were helpful!)