On Tue, 17 Jan 2006, Lena wrote: > I'm on my first attempt of making a gothic fitted dress. It's for a > modern ball, so I'm taking a bit liberty with historical correctness. > It's basically a MS Bodleian 264 dress, with a shallow wide neck > opening and tight buttoned sleeves. The sleeves are supposed to go > down over the knuckles with a small flare, which IIRC are a later > development. > > Now, for my problem. What would be the easiest/best/authentic way of > cutting the sleeves? I'm thinking either to cut the sleeve in one > piece, with a flare at the end, and then insert a gore in the middle > (i.e. where the thumb is when wearing the dress) to make the flare > symmetrical, OR make an ordinary sleeve first and then add a (two?) > curved piece for the cuff.
I haven't looked up your source, but do I gather that you're saying the source doesn't have knuckle-length sleeves, but you're adding them because you like the look for your purposes? I can't remember the last time I tried these, because most of my bread-and-butter GFD sources don't have them, and I find them a pain to wear. If I were doing them for my purposes, I'd follow clues from my source. However, If I were doing them just for show, and not worried about historically correct methods, I'd try the following: 1. Build in the flare to the sleeve 2. If that doesn't work, add a small gusset as you describe 3. If that looks wonky, make it a separate attachment as you describe. I should note that I always create a first sleeve for someone as a mockup, which I baste into the armhole and fit on the body, so it would be easy to test various options. I try not to cut into my my real fabric for the sleeves till I know where I'm going. I will cut with impunity on body pieces, but I have found so many ways to screw up sleeves, I'd rather make my mistakes on something I don't mind wasting. And then it saves me time in the long run. --Robin _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
