Fitting the riding habit
16 May 2021 03:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
motorharpI had optimistically cut out the size 12 back when I first bought the pattern. Not that I'm not a size 12, it just took me a few decades after buying it to actually make it.
My trusty bunka sloper came to the rescue again - I added 1" to both center fronts (for a total of 2") and that was it. Really. The shoulders were surprisingly fine! Then I read a review over on Greater Bay Area Costumers Guild (ctrl+f or scroll down to #902) that said the shoulders on this pattern are really square.
I studiously avoided the major dye blobs when cutting it out. I basted it together and it fit almost perfectly. I don't think I've ever had something fit me this well on the first pass. Am I Victorian shaped?
The only thing that didn't fit were the sleeves. They are pretty tight on me. I decided to sew them bigger, as much as the seam allowances would allow.
I guess Victorian ladies weren't buying tickets to the gun show.
My trusty bunka sloper came to the rescue again - I added 1" to both center fronts (for a total of 2") and that was it. Really. The shoulders were surprisingly fine! Then I read a review over on Greater Bay Area Costumers Guild (ctrl+f or scroll down to #902) that said the shoulders on this pattern are really square.
I studiously avoided the major dye blobs when cutting it out. I basted it together and it fit almost perfectly. I don't think I've ever had something fit me this well on the first pass. Am I Victorian shaped?
The only thing that didn't fit were the sleeves. They are pretty tight on me. I decided to sew them bigger, as much as the seam allowances would allow.
I guess Victorian ladies weren't buying tickets to the gun show.
