dress report

The two halves of the dress are now pinned together, after multiple efforts and multiple trying on of the thing. What I've got going on currently is correct, and works. That said, the dress as it stansd now looks and feels like a potato sack and I'm going through this "I'm going to be so ugly" thing about the ball.

Once it's sewn and I can close the back up it will probably be much better, and al lteh hemming and finishing will help too. I'm also going to buy ribbon or something to tie at the dress' waist so that it doesn't just hang there, and I think it will be fine. Also, I'll have jewlery, makeup and opera gloves on, and my hair will be curled, instead of hanging stupidly.

But right now I am very nervous about getting this thing done and having it look at all decent. Since costumes aren't required, I am currently fighting the impulse to abandon the dress all together, knowing I will look unsightly next to those with actual cleavage and the money to pay seamstresses to create their dresses.

Watched a big chunk of Battlestar Galactica which just came in from Netflix. BG is a _huge_ part of my childhood, and I've stupid fondness for it, although it's sort of weird from this vantage point, especially the first episode which is pretty much People Coping Badly With Disaster. And yes, I know about the Mormon thing. Anyway, it was fun, but weird, and vaguely rattled me.

more dress

I've been dreaming sewing every night for teh last week, and have come up with dress solutions each time. I'm going to use a gausy scarf, not a ribbon, and that should fix and hide everything, and I'll pin it in at the center with something ornamental.

I also think I diagnosed how the problem occured. One -- I never tend to use my full seam allowances. Two -- Um, Regency dresses kinda do look like potato sacks and I didn't help my cause by using heavy fabric. Three -- I never remember to make allowances for the fact that a pattern top cut based on my bust measurement will never, ever account for how tiny my ribcage is and the fact that my breasts are, for lack of a better description, close to the rest of my body in a way that isn't exactly typical of my cup size.

All of this said, I don't have that much work to do tonight... sew teh two halves together, seam the top, hem the bottom, put in the plackett and fastenings, and then fix it all up. Totally doable. Lunchtime errands -- a trip to La Crasia for gloves, acquiring said random gauzy scarf, and curlers.

Train sewing -- retticule and ribbons on slippers.

I can do anything given too little time, and that's pretty alarming.

progress

opera gloves -- check
purse -- check
jewelry (god bless the wholesalers in my work nabe) -- check
ride and other logistics -- check
work -- no check (argh!)

All that's left is the matter of this scarf to fix the dress with.