1870s Sketch
Sep. 21st, 2007 08:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
msmcknittington1. I am completely in love with the icon I'm using for this entry. Vintage photos of pretty girls? Pssst. Butterflies? Hell yeah!
2. Last night, I sketched up the design for the 1870s dress. The whole thing is here, but there are selected bits of it under the cut. Here's the original, if you need a refresher.
The purpose of this sketch was to get the seamlines of the jacket firmly in my head. You really can't see any seams in the photos I have, so I used this paletot from the March 1877 Peterson's magazine to give me a guide. It has two darts in the front, while the pink/gold bustle gown has only one, but I'll probably use the pattern for the paletot as a base. (My original plan was to use a Truly Victorian bodice pattern. In the end, it will probably be a combination.)
You can click on it if you like, but it will just lead you to a picture that's exactly the same size. Also, pardon the fact that my model here has mismatched arms -- she's very senstive about it. Horrible eraser accident. Also, graphite on tracing paper equals horrible smudging. Apparently all my watercolor paper has disappeared into the mists of time.
The changes I've made from the original are pretty slight. Since there's no way I'd get all that embroidery done, I've decided on a double row of ribbon to maintain the vertical line. I'm thinking black silk, though it will probably end up being some of the scads of black cotton cording I have.
I've also decided to change the enormous quantity of ruffles around the neck to a standing collar. I felt that all those ruffles would probably make me look more like the logo for Cabbage Patch dolls than anything else, so a standing collar is was.
For the skirt, which on the original has rows of pleated ruffles, I'm angling towards box pleats with some sort of tabbed puffs above them and two rows of ribbon/cording above that.
I haven't included it in the sketch, but there's a good chance the bows on the original will make it onto my reproduction.
For support, I think I'll be able to get away with a butt pillow (I know there's a technical turn for this) and several ruffled petticoats. The text that accompanied the dress on Vintage Textile mentioned something about a bustle, but all the fashion magazines I've looked at from the period it's dated don't have bustles. At all. They do, however, have tournures, a.k.a tons of ruffles on your backside. So I'm going to go that route. My backside is already pretty prominent, so I think the silhouette should be achievable.
If anybody has any suggestions about proportions, etc. feel free to share them!
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2. Last night, I sketched up the design for the 1870s dress. The whole thing is here, but there are selected bits of it under the cut. Here's the original, if you need a refresher.
The purpose of this sketch was to get the seamlines of the jacket firmly in my head. You really can't see any seams in the photos I have, so I used this paletot from the March 1877 Peterson's magazine to give me a guide. It has two darts in the front, while the pink/gold bustle gown has only one, but I'll probably use the pattern for the paletot as a base. (My original plan was to use a Truly Victorian bodice pattern. In the end, it will probably be a combination.)
You can click on it if you like, but it will just lead you to a picture that's exactly the same size. Also, pardon the fact that my model here has mismatched arms -- she's very senstive about it. Horrible eraser accident. Also, graphite on tracing paper equals horrible smudging. Apparently all my watercolor paper has disappeared into the mists of time.
The changes I've made from the original are pretty slight. Since there's no way I'd get all that embroidery done, I've decided on a double row of ribbon to maintain the vertical line. I'm thinking black silk, though it will probably end up being some of the scads of black cotton cording I have.
I've also decided to change the enormous quantity of ruffles around the neck to a standing collar. I felt that all those ruffles would probably make me look more like the logo for Cabbage Patch dolls than anything else, so a standing collar is was.
For the skirt, which on the original has rows of pleated ruffles, I'm angling towards box pleats with some sort of tabbed puffs above them and two rows of ribbon/cording above that.
I haven't included it in the sketch, but there's a good chance the bows on the original will make it onto my reproduction.
For support, I think I'll be able to get away with a butt pillow (I know there's a technical turn for this) and several ruffled petticoats. The text that accompanied the dress on Vintage Textile mentioned something about a bustle, but all the fashion magazines I've looked at from the period it's dated don't have bustles. At all. They do, however, have tournures, a.k.a tons of ruffles on your backside. So I'm going to go that route. My backside is already pretty prominent, so I think the silhouette should be achievable.
If anybody has any suggestions about proportions, etc. feel free to share them!
Crossposted after a fashion (har har har) to
dressdiaries -- sorry if this shows up twice on your flist.