I think I sent my first edition of this email to a wrong email address. I am sorry if this is a repeat for everyone though.
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:39 AM, J A Urbik <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, am making this year's edition of the whole Flemish dress, this > time I am making a Gored Kirtle > (http://www.elizabethancostume.net/kirtlepat/gored.html) and an > overdress (http://www.elizabethancostume.net/lowerclass/makeflem.html#gown). > In the past I had made both under and overdress out of linen, because > I was mostly doing summer events. > > However, this time I am going to make the overdress out of wool, with > wool as the lining. Both are fairly light weight, and we will see > about how hot the dress is (i actually think it should be ok, at least for > non-extremely hot days, and for the really hot days, a couple of > pieces of ice down the bodice should do wonders). > > What I would like advise about would be should I put an addition layer > of sturdy linen or something as an underlining on the bodice, or will > the just the wool be ok? > > I know I will need a strip of something sturdy down the front edges, > from previous experience with the style, but I have not worked too > much in wool, so i don't know how it will go. > > The gored kirtle that the overdress will go on top of is a fashion > fabric and a lining, both of sturdy linen, but not heavyweight. I wear > size 16/18 and am about a B cup (about 5'4 and 180 pounds) if that > influances your advise. Thanks for all help. > > > jordana > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
