I agree with Robin on the duplicating period techniques (or getting as close
as possible) is usually the best way to duplicate a period result. Modern
techniques are usually the result of technological process evolution, and
may come up with a result that is often easier to learn, or looks "better",
but may not look correct to the trained eye.
That being said, my hand sewn gores suck (ok, *I* think they suck). I
prefer the pointy gores because it's my personal opinion (based on ZERO
objective or statistical evidence) that they were more common. And I'll
keep doing them that way until I get them right :) My major problem is
getting some sort of seam allowance on the body piece, but not the gore.
What this means is that I either wind up with a stress gap at the point, or
compression wrinkles (both of which I expect are prefectly period, but are
ideally wrong).
The most successful garment I've done with this, I rolled the edge of the
seam up to the point before inserting the gore, and then whip stitching the
seam - which I'm pretty sure is not period for this garment.
Any suggestions?
Marc
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