booksandcorsets
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Everything on this show is gorgeous; they make some outstanding costume choices. I've wanted to make something from it for ages, and after wavering between making Red's burn-out velvet cloak (pure lust there, I spotted this dress:
So pretty! I think I did a pretty good job.
Some details. The white is actually a cream; the skirt has a hoop skirt and then some under bustles. I stitched in that padding on the skirt, collar, and cuffs by hand. It got complicated.
Tip: If you have a crazy amount of embroidery or top stitching to do (see below) draw out your pattern on drafting paper like I did and simply sew it directly onto the fabric. Not only will it help stabilize the fabric you're stitching, it will allow you to perfectly trace the pattern. And you can simply pull the paper off--the stitches will act as perforation.
For this piece, it was backed with a puffy felt to give it that slightly-raised look. I did the same with the cuffs and the collar (except the collar was actually double-sided, and then piping sew onto each side). There was a lot of math in this costume.
^That's what the felt did. There were 116 7/8th-inch pearl buttons on the skirt, another 100 pearl buttons on the collar, and those cuffs... so much math. The cuffs were wider at the top than the bottom, had a diamond pattern and then satin-stitched black velvet in that hoop pattern on the tops, plus those heart gems.
The red fabric of the corset-jacket had some very elaborate embroidery on it that I had intended to do by hand but instead machine-stitched a satin-stitch into it into those swirls and waves. See below for a good image:
The corset-jacket also was of one piece. It was fully boned with spiral steel and a busk at the front. In order to do a jacket-corset, I first drafted the corset with the proper reductions, then pulled out a jacket pattern that matched the "pieces," and sewed in the pieces of the corset into the actual darts of the top jacket pieces. A bit complicated but it worked very well:
More photos will be posted later as they show up from Katsucon!
So pretty! I think I did a pretty good job.
Some details. The white is actually a cream; the skirt has a hoop skirt and then some under bustles. I stitched in that padding on the skirt, collar, and cuffs by hand. It got complicated.
Tip: If you have a crazy amount of embroidery or top stitching to do (see below) draw out your pattern on drafting paper like I did and simply sew it directly onto the fabric. Not only will it help stabilize the fabric you're stitching, it will allow you to perfectly trace the pattern. And you can simply pull the paper off--the stitches will act as perforation.
For this piece, it was backed with a puffy felt to give it that slightly-raised look. I did the same with the cuffs and the collar (except the collar was actually double-sided, and then piping sew onto each side). There was a lot of math in this costume.
^That's what the felt did. There were 116 7/8th-inch pearl buttons on the skirt, another 100 pearl buttons on the collar, and those cuffs... so much math. The cuffs were wider at the top than the bottom, had a diamond pattern and then satin-stitched black velvet in that hoop pattern on the tops, plus those heart gems.
The red fabric of the corset-jacket had some very elaborate embroidery on it that I had intended to do by hand but instead machine-stitched a satin-stitch into it into those swirls and waves. See below for a good image:
The corset-jacket also was of one piece. It was fully boned with spiral steel and a busk at the front. In order to do a jacket-corset, I first drafted the corset with the proper reductions, then pulled out a jacket pattern that matched the "pieces," and sewed in the pieces of the corset into the actual darts of the top jacket pieces. A bit complicated but it worked very well:
More photos will be posted later as they show up from Katsucon!
