Hello the list:
My sister-in-law has been doing costuming work in a community theater
and is generally an intelligent, competent, detail-oriented
seamstress. The theater does both contemporary plays and classics--
Victorian/Edwardian and '30s/'40s mostly, but once in a while '20s.
For the period shows she likes to use period patterns when she can,
and that's where she's running into frustration. I offered to seek
help for her on this wonderfully helpful list.
Does anyone know a source--book, on-line instruction, or workshop
(Connecticut area)--for guidance on tailoring and sewing techniques
for these periods? She can usually dope out how to do what has to be
done, or how to finesse it (this is theater, after all, not
reenactment)--but that always takes more time than she has available,
and she also always feels as if the garment would have come out
better had she known what she was doing! Most particularly she runs
into difficulty with trims and with the various kinds of insets and
period-specific seam shapes. I don't think she's looking for patterns
or designs, but rather instruction in materials and methods.
Any advice would be welcome. I've already told her the best advice
would be to join the list and lurk, because eventually this kind of
information will emerge in some discussion!...but so far she's been
reticent....
Thanks--
Ruth Anne Baumgartner
gypsy scholar and amateur costumer
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