Green Remake
I love my garden at this time of the year.
Don't you love the chemise? I made it on Saturday. I love the crinkled effect, and the lace is gorgeous.
05 November 2004
I have decided to remake this bodice and skirt into a Venetian dress for casual wear. As I am remaking an existing set of clothing into a new frock I am in some ways restricted. The seam lines are already set at the sides. Ideally they could be at the side back. Also the waist is not where I would have it if I were making the dress from scratch. The waist at the back will be straight across instead of the classic Venetian V back. I have no doubt that there were straight across waists in Venetian dress, but I now prefer to have the V shaping.
The bodice will have to be entirely unpicked and remade. The neck line will need to be squared off at the front and the back. The front opening will need to be re cut. The lining and the outer will need to be mounted on canvas and the mounting for the lining will have all of the boning attached.
After that the skirt will be taken off the waist band and the waist re-cut to contour with the waist of the bodice. Then cartridge pleated onto the bodice.
After that the lacing rings stitched in, and sleeves made to match. I still have a little of the fabric I made this outfit from.
Easy .!.!.!.!.!.!
Would you believe me if I told you that I don't drink tea, coffee, coke or other caffinated drinks or chocolate? Well I gave up chocolate and coke early in the year. And I am still this hyper active. I hasten to add that I do need at least 8 hours sleep these days.
07 November 2004
I have unpicked all the seams of the bodice and re-cut the neckline and the front opening so that it has the V shape desired for a Venetian. Canvas mounting for the outer and the lining was esential. Because the front opening would now be on the bias rather than the straight of the grain the canvas is essential to maintain structural integrity of the bodice. The boning is added to the canvas that will be part of the lining piece with the boning placed furtherest from the outer garment. This is to minimalise the lines created by the boning.
Once all the boning is attached to the mounting then the pieces are all overlocked together to form single pieces.
Seams are stitched in, clipped and presses.
08 November 2004
The skirt had to be reshaped at the waist, to reflect the shape of the waist of the bodice. Then the bodice and the skirt were cartridge pleated together by hand. The only way to attach cartridge pleating.
11 November 2004
2 hooks and bars in the front opening of the skirt and the lacing rings sewn in.
FINISHED!!!
Regrets?
Yes! I had some fabric in my stash that I thought matched this dress to use for sleeves. When I got it out to cut the sleeves it was a slightly different shade. Not that it simply didn't match because of the age of the garment being remade, it was a different shade that didn't match in with the dress.
Oh well. I only intend this dress to be a scunging around frock anyway. So sans sleeves with this one.
I will hopefully have enough muscular movement back in my face to be happy to have a photo taken in this dress on the weekend. The bells palsy is very irritating. Here's hoping.
13 November 2004
At Casual War, Barony of Politarchopolis. A brief first outing for this remake of an old favorite.
The Finished Look.
Note the HUGE bells on the chain girdle. Aren't they cool.!.!.!
The inspiration for the final outfit being worn the way I did on the day is from Cesare Vecellio's Costume Plates 1589 a Woman of Sphakia in Crete which was under Venetian rule at the time. Thus the Venetian style with regional variations. I doubt that you would see a lady wearing a girdle with bells on it like this in St Marks Square, except maybe for carnival, a little to provincial.
Hence the dress skirt is a little higher in the hem than I would normally wear. (My underskirt is showing slightly) Yet another casual Venetian. See the HUGE bells on the chain girdle, you can just see them behind the folds of my skirt. The dress looks different on me to the mannequin. A much better shape.
To the right can be seen another Plate from Cesare Vecellio's Costume 1589 showing a Greek woman in the Venetian domain. Again a Venetian dress worn with regional differences and adaptations.
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