Riding Habit Bodice
Dec. 4th, 2012 02:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theladyrebeccaI love when things fit. I made the mock-up for the zone-front riding habit bodice, and it fits! I based the front piece off of the floral robe a l'anglaise from last year, modified to a zone front and to a neckline that will cover my stays straps, and taken in about 1.5" since that one is too big now. I made the back like a quarter back (I think that's the term, right?) with four pieces, roughly equaling the pieces from the old bodice. My mock-up was almost perfect - all I had to do was take in about 3/4" around the shoulder-blades in the center back seam. I am going to wind up tweaking the front neckline a tiny bit, since it's looking more bodice-y than habit-y.
Before I took the back in.
And after:
I also finished the skirt, other than the hem. Here are a couple pics, shown over the bum bad and quilted petticoat:
And this is what happens when you find out that despite all the carving I've done to Antoinette, she still won't fit my stays! But in a pinch, a couple pillows come pretty darn close.
I've been trying to decide whether to have the skirts of the habit bodice cut in one with the bodice pieces, or to make separate skirts. At this point, I'm leaning towards the latter, but I'm having real problems finding evidence that leads more to one way or the other in portraits/extant, etc. Just as a reminder, this is the portrait I'm basing my habit off of: http://www.nationalmuseum.se/Global/Pressbilder/Stolthet_och_fordom/HR/SF_421_02.jpg. It looks like her skirts are cut in one, but I also kind of doubt that hers is a zone front. I wish I could see the front!
Does anyone have any suggestions one way or the other for which type of skirts would make more sense with a 1780s zone-front riding habit?
Before I took the back in.
And after:
I also finished the skirt, other than the hem. Here are a couple pics, shown over the bum bad and quilted petticoat:
And this is what happens when you find out that despite all the carving I've done to Antoinette, she still won't fit my stays! But in a pinch, a couple pillows come pretty darn close.
I've been trying to decide whether to have the skirts of the habit bodice cut in one with the bodice pieces, or to make separate skirts. At this point, I'm leaning towards the latter, but I'm having real problems finding evidence that leads more to one way or the other in portraits/extant, etc. Just as a reminder, this is the portrait I'm basing my habit off of: http://www.nationalmuseum.se/Global/Pressbilder/Stolthet_och_fordom/HR/SF_421_02.jpg. It looks like her skirts are cut in one, but I also kind of doubt that hers is a zone front. I wish I could see the front!
Does anyone have any suggestions one way or the other for which type of skirts would make more sense with a 1780s zone-front riding habit?
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Date: 2012-12-04 10:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-12-04 11:02 pm (UTC)I believe by the 80s, skirts were usually cut separately - but I can't think where I got that information or if I'm just hallucinating it! I know that's how regular gowns were cut (with the exception of polonaises), and I've seen jackets go both ways.