Hi,
Thank you for the response!
I'll try to answer all the emails at once.
I will hopefully get the Cut of Men's Clothes (Norah Waugh) and the
Cut of Women's Clothes as a X-mas present from my husband.
I already read in a revieuw that the patterns are from pre-1780s and the
other half from 1840
It's that time of year: holiday parties, winter balls, company
dinners, New Years Eve, cocktail parties,12th Night, You might even be
planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason,
costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's
dummy wearing today?
A German coat a'la 1580. Front opening fitted bodice, skirt pleated
in the back. Made of rust fulled wool, lined with black Muppet fur.
The long sleeves end in hefty turned back cuffs, and a black silk cord
is couched along the entire circumference.
Just for fun. Didn't even bother to hand sew
I am making Vogue 2607 in an iridescent burgundy silk dupioni from fabric.com,
and commissioning a pearl and garnet necklace from Israel to wear with it. My
husband plans to wear a black jacket with charcoal mock turtle neck and black
pants, as the perfect foil for my eye popping attire.
Of
Well as you all know, the yellow dress.
.
But for myself, cant use my dressdummy for something for myself , i have ben
wanting to make me a cavallier outfit.
'There is an opera masqued ball in february again and i have this grey
damask wich is a cotton/(dont remember the name) blend. I also
Cin wrote:
So, what's your dressmaker's
dummy wearing today?
LOL! Cat hair... well, it would be if I had one. I'm between projects
right now, nothing on the calendar for about 3 months. I've got mending
and alterations to do to several costumes from previous events and I'm
busy picking
Lalah, Never give up, Never surrender
--- Cin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Cin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 10:36:27 -0800
To: h-cost [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing?
It's that time of year: holiday parties, winter balls, company
dinners,
Dark blue faille 1882 bustle dress (kick pleat skirt and cuirass bodice),
with inset dark blue figured velvet panel down front of skirt and on front
of bodice; cuffs and standup collar also figured velvet. White lace at
wrist and top of collar. About a dozen dark blue jewel and gold buttons
Whoops - I hit the send button instead of the tab.
Mine is wearing an almost completed Regency gown I am making for a friend for
Christmas. It is soft white lawn with tiny pink rosebuds and very delicate
moss green vines and leaves. And I wanted to find a ribbon to match the green,
but so far
Well
One of my dummies is wearing a very pink dress.
It is finished but it reminds me that I am going to make it again but
then with a long skirt and in very pale blue.
I will be wearing the blue gown to the X-mas/New years party from my
husbands job.
I did exactly the same thing (picking off horrid flowers) a couple of months
ago. The final result was a whole ziploc bag full of little black linen
flowers, which I passed on to a friend, who can actually *do* something with
them, and a bolt of perfectly nice, medium-weight, white linen. Cost?
Mine quite brazen, she's only wearing a circa 1897 petticoat...my male friends
have been warned to mind their manners :)
Chris G.
Subject: [h-cost] What's your dressmaker's dummy wearing?
It's that time of year: holiday parties, winter balls, company
dinners, New Years Eve,
Right now mine's topless. On her bottom half she's wearing the red with
yellow fleur de lis skirt that will be the lower half of my new 1635
Cavalier gown for 12th Night. The bodice is cut out, but I'm embroidering
it with gold thread and pearls before I sew it together. She also has a
I wish I had a dressmaker's dummy. If I did have one, I believe I would have
a 16th century German dress on it. There's a dress on the front of a pattern
from Period Patterns that I just adore. The color would be emerald green.
Maybe Santa will be nice to me this year. Sigh.
In a message dated 11/14/2005 5:13:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Right now mine's topless.
And mine is bottomless. She is wearing the bodice of a shawl overdress
based on an 1810 French fashion plate. I bought 2 silk paisley shawls at El
Corte Ingles in
In a message dated 11/14/2005 2:27:28 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
cant use my dressdummy for something for myself
You need to get a male mannequin, too! I bought a torso from a shirt store
that was closing for $10.
Ann Wass
In a message dated 11/14/2005 5:24:41 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I wish I had a dressmaker's dummy.
I scrounged one of my dummies out of a trash can. It needed a fitting to
hold the base together, but I went to my local hardware store, where they
fixed
me
My son has armor draped on it.
I made a duct tape dummy lost weight and moved it to the garage. My son needed
some place to hold his leather tunic with metal plates while he works on it,
and look, there's a dummie in the garage, just for him, he thinks.
alex
Cin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have two forms, one is not at all my size (I wish!) but it's good enough to
display gowns on. It's an antique style with the seperate plates. The other is
modern foam with cotton cover. It's not exactly my size, but ti's closer than
the other one- got it when a fabric store was closing for
On Monday 14 November 2005 1:36 pm, Cin wrote:
It's that time of year: holiday parties, winter balls, company
dinners, New Years Eve, cocktail parties,12th Night, You might even be
planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason,
costumers are probably making something.
Kimiko Small wrote:
Thank you Bjarne for posting this on the list.
Melanie, I, too, love the work you have done on that doublet. You have
inspired me to follow suit, as soon as I can find some time and a
suitable project to work on. Ah, perhaps the glove gauntlets I keep
wanting to do,
One is wearing an Edwardian outfit in a great shade of purple (it was a pink
I overdyed with blue) with white lace trim around the neck, decorating the
top, and the bottom of the sleeves. The skirt has white insertions where the
side panels met the front panel, all of this needs ribbons laced
We don't have a dummy either. But, the DH is busy making 2 teddy
bears and 2 shoulder wraps out of an old mink coat. A co-worker of
mine had this old coat from her grandmother, and she asked if we
could make bears and wraps out of it for her granddaughters. So, I
spent about 2 weeks
It's that time of year: holiday parties, winter balls, company
dinners, New Years Eve, cocktail parties,12th Night, You might even be
planning a sojourn to a balmy tropical locale. Whatever the reason,
costumers are probably making something. So, what's your dressmaker's
dummy wearing today?
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