frualeydis | Gothic "fitted" dress (Reply)

I tried on a blue gothic fitted dress/cotehardie that I made 1 1/2 years ago but never have had the opportunity to wear yesterday. One thing we can be sure of is that I am smaller than I was then, because I could get into it without loosening the lacing in the back. So of course it did nothing to keep my bust where it should be etc. This is actually a good thing because apart from the fact that it's a good thing that I'm loosing weight I never was really happy with the way that dress looked. I tried a new (for me) method with shaping in the front seam and not only at the sides and it gave my bust the oddest shape. But now there is space enough to make the curve over the bust less pronounced while taking in the dress at the sides in the waist so it might actually fit better. I hope so, because the colour, a greenish blue looks really good on me (the colour analysis thing popping up again). Of course the dress is wholly lined and in the way where lining and top fabric are treated as one, so it is quite a lot of job to change the dress, but I'm not going to wear it anytime soon so that's not a problem.