#once you account for seam allowances/selvedges/etc it’s just about half of your modern standard fabric width | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

stylishanachronism · 1 year ago

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Like, not to be arrogant or anything but

This? This is a very easy to follow pattern, for period work! If you assume they had a reason to put things together the way they ask you can just follow along with the bouncing ball!

Decided to buy a *stupid* amount of cute flannel so I’m looking at chemise patterns because why not have a complete matching set of black cat and pumpkin underpinnings, and I found a very interesting period pattern (which won’t work for this purpose But), except I found it through a finished project and, uh. Complaining about problems you created because you don’t like the period ways of doing things so you changed the pattern and caused them is not *actually* the pattern’s fault

#also it says *right there* in black and white to scale to bust measurement #no complaining about having to adjust the yoke if you didn’t draft it right!#anyway what makes this pattern interesting is that it combines the puffed sleeve and the gusset in one piece #it’s very clever though since I like a longer sleeve I’d probably adjust the gusset portion #quick reference guide: this is actually drafting instructions so you’d draw the fine line box first #and then use the various measurements to make the actual pattern piece #again this wants you to scale off bust measure #so for example their base circumference is 44 inches (2xback+2xfront)#chemises want ~15in ease so that’s a bust measure of ~29 #magazines like this expect that you know your own base measurements #so like if I were making this my front/back would start at 18in #which is a little wider than necessary but a. I like more ease and b. is a very nice width wrt standard fabric measurements #once you account for seam allowances/selvedges/etc it’s just about half of your modern standard fabric width #add half a yard for sleeves etc and you’ve got finished measure x2 as your requirement #also I was wrong this was 1890s it’s from the winter ‘97 voice of fashion magazine originally #which does actually make way more sense re: seamlines

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