English Fitted Gown~ Because I Need to Plan Something~~

[Cilean]

I need to work on something,  I need to plan, and I had picked up this pattern from Reconstructing History. This will not fit me as the largest size is 5 inches too small in my middle and so I will be Toileing the crap of this to make it work, I also? Don't like the kirtle which to me? Looks like Henrician kirtle, and really? I don't know to my eyes like the correct time period so I am going to make my Kirtle from my Margo Pattern.  


So here is the pattern I will be using for the overgown:


Kirtles I have found on the net that I will be working from:


Sarah Lorraine's Wool Kirtle:
                                   

Dame Drea's Kirtle


From 2008 Drea Talk:

Now this one is different as it is a Petticoat with Bodies.

A Side Laced Kirtle:


I have this luscious 100% deep Aubergine Linen, that I have made the Tunic from so I don't have to worry this is all mine now!
It is just about 4 yards but it is 61" wide.

I have 7 yards of 100% Linen in Gray, and I want to put black as trim on that (yep, typical, eh?).  Why Linen? 105 degree heat in No Cali and I do not handle heat very well.   I will be using lining of Duck Cloth in white, for the bodice and there will be boning adding to the bodice, I will box pleat the gown's skirt to the bodice, and then get to play with the Gray Linen to make the gown.  If this works? I have some burnt orange and reddish/purple linen that I think will compliment each other very nicely for another gown.

Musings
Cilean

[gem]

Centuries made a beautiful English fitted gown from the Tudor Tailor pattern (IIRC). She has pictures posted in the Finished Projects thread.

Good luck with this! I absolutely love this look, but Milord calls it "prudish." 

[Kate XXXXXX]

Watch it with the RH patterns: there are fit issues with some and I've had to redraft bits of others to make them work.  Make a toile and fit carefully.  Oh, and watch the sizing!  Some of the larger sizes for women can be inaccurately drafted.  I had one that was three inches shorter round the waist than the stated pattern size measurement.  And this was over a corset laced to the stated pattern size.

[Cilean]

Reconstructing History's quality,

I sometimes think because she is a very smallish person, not over a size 10 I don't think she is.  Then she is using pattern drafting program but since she is not a big person and really does not work with beta testers perhaps she misses the point on those of us who are larger?  When I made her Jacket Pattern I wanted to kill myself and then her, because it was NOT anywhere near the size it should have been.  so I am making a toile as soon as I finish the kirtle. 

She does however have better sewing instructions, since the last time I bought from her.  I notice people who are from a size 8 to a 14 are fine, I was on the great pattern guide and it seems this is so....who knows eh?

But thank you I shall be making up a toile and using it to fit before I ever cut good fabric.

I remember when I would use cut and made do, I was so naive back then! And wasted so much lovely fabric too!

Cilean