The dress is finished
Aug. 29th, 2012 04:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frualeydisSince I've been in too much pain to think, or even read anything more complicated than a cheesy romance I've read before I have (with very long breaks) made a new dress from my well-tried '40s wrap dress pattern. I definitely don't have the brain capacity to modify patterns now so teh only changes from previous versions is that the skirt is slightly gathered and that I made a new type of sleeve, which I got from a dress from 1936 in Janet Arnold's Patterns of Fashion 2.
Since I wanted to do the dress justice I put on tights, shoes, necklace, bracelet and lipstick. And put up my hair - you have to say that for not being allowed to bathe for a few days to avoid getting bacteria inside the joint after injecting cortisone there: Slightly dirty hair is so much easier to put up.
The fabric is a cotton print I got extremely cheap from a place called Jonic Textil in Sweden.
The beige fishnets I looked for last week, and then found at What Katie Did arrived today . Here I'm wearing tights but I also ordered beige stockings and black tights.
The sleeve pattern. The two large pieces are gathered and sewn to the narrow strip. Then you sew the under-arm seam and gather the sleeve head.
Since I wanted to do the dress justice I put on tights, shoes, necklace, bracelet and lipstick. And put up my hair - you have to say that for not being allowed to bathe for a few days to avoid getting bacteria inside the joint after injecting cortisone there: Slightly dirty hair is so much easier to put up.
The fabric is a cotton print I got extremely cheap from a place called Jonic Textil in Sweden.
The beige fishnets I looked for last week, and then found at What Katie Did arrived today . Here I'm wearing tights but I also ordered beige stockings and black tights.
The sleeve pattern. The two large pieces are gathered and sewn to the narrow strip. Then you sew the under-arm seam and gather the sleeve head.