----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 3:02 AM Subject: Re: [h-cost] New Simplicity Martha McCain pattern (cross post)
> > In a message dated 8/20/2005 3:19:57 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > http://snipurl.com/h35y http://snipurl.com/h35z > > > These don't look narrow to me. Granted they aren't pagoda sleeves....they're > NARROWER.... but I'd not say they are fitted at all. And the other examples > are all split at the bottom to give that bell shape with the engagent or > poofed to have a full silhouette...the effect of the blue dress with the two > upper arm poofs. The trend is definitely to have fullness on the arm. > > And the skirts are flat pleated. > <snip> I was looking at the GBACG pattern review site (http://www.gbacg.org/Patterns/simplicity.htm) and reading this note "One of the ladies who creates many of the costume patterns for Simplicity was a presenter at Costume Con in Utah ... Another interesting fact she mentioned was that no design can take over 3 sheets of tissue. If it does she either has to abandon the design or take one or two additional "views" of a single pattern out." It occurred to me that this would explain why the skirts are rectangular instead of gored, pattern pieces for a gored skirt would take up large amounts of tissue paper (and almost certainly put you over the 3 sheets limit) whereas a cartridge pleated skirt only needs directions to cut out rectangles of X length and the full width of the fabric. I know their Elizabethan costume (8881 the Shakespeare in Love dress) compromises using only a few triangular gores (pattern pieces) with instructions to add rectangular pieces, but apparently they couldn't do that for this pattern. For a novice sewer it's much easier to tell them to cut their yardage into 5 pieces of X length and the full width of the fabric than to try to give them instructions on how to create a gored skirt. Elizabeth -------------------------------------------- Elizabeth Walpole Canberra Australia ewalpole[at]tpg.com.au http://au.geocities.com/e_walpole/ _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
