In a message dated 11/15/2005 11:21:50 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My lady meassures 21 inches from under the arms and over the bust. I suppose this should be my meassure for the front and back pieces then + 2 inches for movement. Is this correkt? ***************************** I'd add more that 2". Remember, in the period the cut reflects a time when things were not really cut as we think of it today, but came off the loom in rectangles and squares. Not all chemises add the triangular pieces for extra room in the hips and at the hem. It would then be a straight tube the measurement of the hip area and hem. You don't need to be THAT primitive....shaping is allowed. But I'd go a little fuller than usual. It all gets smashed under the corset, true, but sometimes the neck of the chemise gets drawn up by a cord in a casing ... Not as much as a ruffle...but a bit. *************************************** Do you think i should add the lace frills to the sleaves, or should i just sew it to the dress sleaves? *********************************** Both is done in the period. I'd put them on the dress....unless you see some chemise sleeve peaking out from under the dress' sleeve.....which you do in the 1780s and 90s. _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
