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[theladyrebecca]

I don't know why, but the dickey gave me so much trouble today! I did finally wrangle it into submission. It's complete, other than trimming and buttonholes/buttons, and I've stitched it into the bodice. But I don't love it. I think with the trim it will look a lot better, but right now it just looks like a lot of grey, and polyester at that. Joanns closed today before I could make it over, but I'm going to go there tomorrow and hopefully find some trim options.

It's so hard to tell what's going on in the fashion plate - the trim on the dickey almost looks black instead of the forest green like the skirt, and it's also much narrower. The ribbon at the CF also looks black. But the thing is, that other than possibly doing the buttons on the skirt black, there's no other black on the whole outfit. So would it look out of place?

Here's the plate, and a link to the high res, if anyone has any opinions.


I didn't get to the skating dress today, since I went to go see La La Land this evening, but I've cleaned my cutting table off so that I might be able to get to it tomorrow. First, though, I have a rush order of a Belle playdress that I have to do tomorrow, and I really need to work more on my lines for the show as well, since we start rehearsals back up tomorrow night. 

Comments

[nuranar.livejournal.com]

Hmm. The ribbon trim on the dress looks like black to me. Black trim really is the "safe" choice for so much mid/late Victorian. So even though you used green, I would go ahead with black on the bodice. Black is perfectly period and has a presence without calling attention. I would look for velvet ribbon, to mimic what's on the skirt. Good luck! It's really coming together!

[theladyrebecca.livejournal.com]

Okay, great, that's exactly what I was seeing, too. (Not to mention velvet narrow black velvet ribbon should be so much easier to find!)

[vanessa-lynne.livejournal.com]

To me it looks like it matches the ribbons on the skirt (not the edge ribbons, but the fluffy loop ones), just in shadow.

[theladyrebecca.livejournal.com]

You mean the big center bow? I thought that, too. But then it just looks very monotone, because that's the base color of the dickey, too.

[mala-14.livejournal.com]

I thought black too. Although Vanessa's thought of grey also makes sense for the bow in front. But the narrow trim on the dickey totally looks black to me, which would be practical if the dickey was going to be used on different gowns. You're getting so close to being done!

[theladyrebecca.livejournal.com]

I'm going with black! Now I just have to sit down and actually sew it all on.

[atherleisure.livejournal.com]

Some of those books by Frances Grimble show a large number of neck confections that I assume are meant to be worn with different gowns. If that is how they're meant to be used, black ribbon would be completely appropriate since it goes with so many things. For what it's worth, I read the skirt trim as black when I saw the fashion plate, but it could well be green too.

[theladyrebecca.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I hadn't thought about making it interchangeable. Then again, I don't have another dress with a neckline this low either.

And the only other person that I've seen make this gown did it all as black velvet ribbon, but I like the green.

[atherleisure.livejournal.com]

I had rather interpreted them as being something that was tacked to the outside of the dress instead of the inside of the dress. Not sure whether that was done, but it was an impression I had gotten from the books.

[marianme.livejournal.com]

I just realized your fashion plate has a woman in a tuxedo who looks like she's from the 1920s or 1930s.

[theladyrebecca.livejournal.com]

Isn't that wonderfully creepy? The very feminine man is also staring directly at the boobs of the lady in turquoise.