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Weekend Report
Aug. 27th, 2018 09:11 amPretty quiet, had a weather-related headache for part of it.
Photographed* my more-or-less complete 1920s-style dress – really more of a wearable muslin, as it’s a test version in cheap fabric. I enjoy looking at 1920s sewing patterns because even the ones that aren’t the One-Hour Dress are fairly simple, and sometimes when I’m bored I mentally design my own using features** from the vintage patterns – so this was an attempt to actually make one such design.
ETA – posted another chapter of 1983. Things googled while writing this chapter include “Andalusian terms of endearment,” “did the New York Public Library have a newspaper archives in 1983,” “Dana’s apartment in Ghostbusters,” “history of domestic refrigerators in Europe,” “skim milk packaging 1980s” and “vintage oreo packaging 1980s.”
*Normally in photos my head looks really big, but when I take photos in the stairwell with my iPad propped on the steps, it’s the reverse, which I guess adds some variety.
** I don’t believe I’ve ever seen this pointed out in so many words by writers on historical fashions, but I get the impression from the home-sewist patterns of the time that it was a Thing to group the frills or other features at the front of the skirt, with the back left relatively plain; probably to emphasize the hips-tucked-forward “debutante slouch” silhouette. Which is a roundabout way of saying I decided after taking the photos that the sash really ought to tie at the front.
Photographed* my more-or-less complete 1920s-style dress – really more of a wearable muslin, as it’s a test version in cheap fabric. I enjoy looking at 1920s sewing patterns because even the ones that aren’t the One-Hour Dress are fairly simple, and sometimes when I’m bored I mentally design my own using features** from the vintage patterns – so this was an attempt to actually make one such design.
ETA – posted another chapter of 1983. Things googled while writing this chapter include “Andalusian terms of endearment,” “did the New York Public Library have a newspaper archives in 1983,” “Dana’s apartment in Ghostbusters,” “history of domestic refrigerators in Europe,” “skim milk packaging 1980s” and “vintage oreo packaging 1980s.”
*Normally in photos my head looks really big, but when I take photos in the stairwell with my iPad propped on the steps, it’s the reverse, which I guess adds some variety.
** I don’t believe I’ve ever seen this pointed out in so many words by writers on historical fashions, but I get the impression from the home-sewist patterns of the time that it was a Thing to group the frills or other features at the front of the skirt, with the back left relatively plain; probably to emphasize the hips-tucked-forward “debutante slouch” silhouette. Which is a roundabout way of saying I decided after taking the photos that the sash really ought to tie at the front.
