I know, what a question, huh?
I want Promenade to have a nice swishy/full skirt, but it needs to be pretty smooth at the waist/hips, so I'm thinking nice knife or box pleats, with a gored skirt. Before I drag down *all* my costuming books, could y'all glance at my library and tell me if I already have something I can work with?
Tudor Tailor
all the Margo Anderson patterns
all the Janet Arnold books (except the undies one)
Patterns for Theatrical Costuming
and just about every Big 3 remotely Ren or faire pattern
Alternately, is there a scalable pattern on the web?
Gramercy!!
Could you just give it a circular skirt? Plenty of directions all over the place...
Quote from: gem on June 29, 2009, 04:03:46 PM
I know, what a question, huh?
I want Promenade to have a nice swishy/full skirt, but it needs to be pretty smooth at the waist/hips, so I'm thinking nice knife or box pleats, with a gored skirt. Before I drag down *all* my costuming books, could y'all glance at my library and tell me if I already have something I can work with?
Tudor Tailor
all the Margo Anderson patterns
all the Janet Arnold books (except the undies one)
Patterns for Theatrical Costuming
and just about every Big 3 remotely Ren or faire pattern
As far as I remember, the Eleonora di Toledo funeral dress (in the "Renaissance and baroque" PoF) has gores, and is pleated. I think there is at least one other gored skirt there as well. :)
The underskirt of the Lady's patterns from Margo Anderson is gored! You should be able to use that one. ;D