Demon Pony project
Mar. 3rd, 2014 11:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenHere is the free dress I got from a friend, which is getting used as part of the project. It's size 7/8, which I am not, but that's okay. The skirt overlaps off-center, which is one of the reasons I picked that cute Lolita dress that I posted a little while back as an inspiration piece.
I separated the bodice from the skirt, cut the skirt to half its length, and have been using the lower part to make ruffles, fill out the upper skirt more, and up-size the bodice.
The bodice is lined but the skirt isn't. As originally designed, one would wear a slip with the dress, so no problem. But my plan is for an opening in the front, so I made and attached an underslip to the skirt, from another one of the white Holyoke curtains.
The purple pleated ruffle on top of the edge ruffle I made from the same linen fabric as the ruffle skirt -- make a long strip of fabric, sew it into a long tube, press it flat, pleat and attach. The lace trim is some funky 1980s stuff I found on etsy.
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Pinned the overskirt onto the ruffle skirt and pinned a piece of lace onto the top, just to give a general idea of the direction this is going. The top is going to become a bolero jacket, with some sort of ruffle going around the edges, over a white blouse.
I'm not sure I have enough of the dress material left to use that for the edge ruffle; if not, maybe a nice lace ruffle would work... I want to put a pleated ruffle on top of that, along with the lace trim, to go with the over skirt. And of course now I'll need a nice white blouse underneath the jacket, but that's okay, as I'll then have a blouse I can wear for everyday wear. I'm much happier with this reworking of my original plan; two layers on top just feels more balanced. Also, I'd rather not have a synthetic against my skin, both in general and specifically because Dragon Con will be warm with all those people there...unless it's a microfiber designed to wick moisture away from your body, synthetics usually just aren't worth the time of day.
I separated the bodice from the skirt, cut the skirt to half its length, and have been using the lower part to make ruffles, fill out the upper skirt more, and up-size the bodice.
The bodice is lined but the skirt isn't. As originally designed, one would wear a slip with the dress, so no problem. But my plan is for an opening in the front, so I made and attached an underslip to the skirt, from another one of the white Holyoke curtains.
The purple pleated ruffle on top of the edge ruffle I made from the same linen fabric as the ruffle skirt -- make a long strip of fabric, sew it into a long tube, press it flat, pleat and attach. The lace trim is some funky 1980s stuff I found on etsy.
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Pinned the overskirt onto the ruffle skirt and pinned a piece of lace onto the top, just to give a general idea of the direction this is going. The top is going to become a bolero jacket, with some sort of ruffle going around the edges, over a white blouse.
I'm not sure I have enough of the dress material left to use that for the edge ruffle; if not, maybe a nice lace ruffle would work... I want to put a pleated ruffle on top of that, along with the lace trim, to go with the over skirt. And of course now I'll need a nice white blouse underneath the jacket, but that's okay, as I'll then have a blouse I can wear for everyday wear. I'm much happier with this reworking of my original plan; two layers on top just feels more balanced. Also, I'd rather not have a synthetic against my skin, both in general and specifically because Dragon Con will be warm with all those people there...unless it's a microfiber designed to wick moisture away from your body, synthetics usually just aren't worth the time of day.
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Date: 2014-03-03 06:28 pm (UTC)The hotels are really really good about temperature modulation. Atlanta at the end of August is hot and sticky and muggy outside, but inside the hotels, even in the press of a rave at 3am, I have no memory of ever being uncomfortable and sweaty when in costume.
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Date: 2014-03-03 06:44 pm (UTC)And good to know about the hotels, thank you.