The Brown Dress, Part One

[sasha_sews]

The Brown Dress is actually a doublet/kirtle combination with a black skirt. But I love the brown striped fabric I'm making the doublet out of so I'm calling it the brown dress.

Here's the bodice.



And the inside, where you can see the boning I put into it.



The strip of brown? Matches the stripes on the front, completely on accident, it was awesome.

Here's the side and back boning.



The doublet with trim pinned on waiting to be stitched down. (by hand. Ugh.)



Close up of the trim.



Aaaaand the skirting pinned in for pleats. (This is going under the doublet.)



Continued in part two...

Comments

[loralienasa.livejournal.com]

Okay, just have to say something, and I'm not correcting you to be obnoxious or OCD. But the torso portion of a dress is not called a "doublet". It is called a "bodice". Bodice not doublet.

And I am correcting you because she-who-must-not-be-named always called it a doublet and I always wanted to thumb her eyes out when she did, because holy crap you think you're the fucking sewing god of the universe and you don't even know what that thing in your hand is called!!!

Ahem.

Please return to your regularly scheduled sewing mania. ;)

[sasha-sews.livejournal.com]

Pls to be noting how I am talking about BOTH a bodice AND a doublet.

But given how I captioned the pics I can see how you might have been confused.

As we have established, I am not an idiot. :D

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

You can, however, have a doublet gown, if the doublet has attached skirts. And "bodice" is a fairly modern term.