Sheer Bustle
May. 2nd, 2018 11:30 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mala_14Now that my stays are almost done (tried them on yesterday to measure strap length and hoping to get straps made today, pictures from yesterday are forthcoming), I've been giving some serious thought to my next project: a sheer early bustle dress. It's going to be made in phases for convenience. All together I need: elizabeth_mn in late July). This leaves me with the corset cover, bodice, overskirt, and peplum. The corset cover is because I want to do a looser, gathered bodice and can't quite wrap my head around how to do that plus have a fitted half-high lining. Plus, then I have a corset cover for when I do other sheer things in the future. I'm basing my design on this lovely from c.1869 at the Musee D'Orsay:
I like the split overskirt and the v-neck bodice and where the ruffles are. Mine will have a peplum thingie for some extra jeuje on the bustle area, because isn't that the point of bustle? I need a new bodice pattern, but I'm probably going to start with my 1880 bodice pattern and straighten the CF, alter some of the seam lines, drop the shoulder a bit, and cut it off at the natural waist, as well as make the minor fitting tweaks that I know it needs. Shouldn't be too difficult. <-- *famous last words*
I have many yards of white cotton voile and cotton lace left over from the ballgown, so that's what I'm using. At one time in my life I had grand dreams of stamping a design on this, but then I got real. I'll probably need more lace, but it was pretty cheap and they had another lace I was interested in, so I might get that too. Can never have too much lace, right?
- corset cover
- white bustle petticoat
- bodice
- skirt
- overskit
- peplum
elizabeth_mn in late July). This leaves me with the corset cover, bodice, overskirt, and peplum. The corset cover is because I want to do a looser, gathered bodice and can't quite wrap my head around how to do that plus have a fitted half-high lining. Plus, then I have a corset cover for when I do other sheer things in the future. I'm basing my design on this lovely from c.1869 at the Musee D'Orsay:I like the split overskirt and the v-neck bodice and where the ruffles are. Mine will have a peplum thingie for some extra jeuje on the bustle area, because isn't that the point of bustle? I need a new bodice pattern, but I'm probably going to start with my 1880 bodice pattern and straighten the CF, alter some of the seam lines, drop the shoulder a bit, and cut it off at the natural waist, as well as make the minor fitting tweaks that I know it needs. Shouldn't be too difficult. <-- *famous last words*
I have many yards of white cotton voile and cotton lace left over from the ballgown, so that's what I'm using. At one time in my life I had grand dreams of stamping a design on this, but then I got real. I'll probably need more lace, but it was pretty cheap and they had another lace I was interested in, so I might get that too. Can never have too much lace, right?
