I have to add that after examining extant 18th C garments, I am amazed at all the piecing that was used to get the whole costume out of a given fabric yardage.Lots!! Matching patterns, never mind grain, did not seem to be a high priority. Using today's fabric widths often prompts wider skirts or fuller sleeves because our aesthetic consciousness allows for an opulence that may never have been possible in times past. Kathleen ----- Original Message ----- From: "E House" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Historical Costume" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2006 3:26 PM Subject: Re: [h-cost] Tudor Tailor....a review
> ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > But, accurate or not...it still looks bad. What about the way it looks? > > Doesn't that matter to reenactors too? > > > > And there's no excuse for a 1/2 inch miss-match unless you're cutting from > > scraps....and they weren't. [I have been guilty of it too] > > Well, I definitely prefer the fuller look myself! But I want to at least > know what the skimpy-but-accurate look actually looks like before I go on to > try to get a 9yd+ hem out of 5 yds fabric. =} I also go to great lengths to > match patterns on fabric, sigh. I wonder if they got a hunk of fabric like > the one I am saving for a special project, where the pattern is off-center > on the cloth by two or three inches? If I were to double it over and cut > both right and left at once, I'd wind up very off-kilter, unless I > remembered to waste that 2 or 3 inches by not folding the cloth exactly in > half. I hate matching patterns. Hate. > > -E House > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
