The 8-piece bodice, readily made..
Upper- and under-collar, all set..
Their mutual seam, in progress..
The result, with added trimline.
Sewing the under-collar onto the bodice, making sure that all its bias layers show a correct direction whilst including an overlying one within the seam; leaving the upper-collar to fall freely until the lining is attached.
This year proposed a surprising turn-out of the winter sales wherein I was able to score a massive suit-bag, exquisite, with its many trinkets and comparements, for carrying my shirts and other delicate contraptions when venturing out into the field, which will now, with the handy shoulder-strap, happen even more in style.
Following the aspect of locking voluminous gathers within flat reinforced layers: rounded cuffs are added to finish off the sleeve-ends in a manner that reflects their origin from the shoulderdisk; a straight fabric strip catches the body’s hemline gathers while a combined collar completes the mirror-semblance above the disk.
Drawing sets of parallel-lines to denote the exact locations of the folds, the backfolds and the foldless parts while using their relation to the side, front and rear centers as key points to fuse the vastly amassing paper pieces together before including tailoring by redirecting the foldlines to deepen the pleats from the hips up.
An U.S. online ordered fashion wig, though beautiful in quality, unfavorably fashioned with too many and too small curls, giving a frizzy impression instead of the planned classical look; brings up the question of wether to disregard the purchase as a lost cost, or to make use of its human hair blend composition and completely re-style it into voluminous curlings that are better porportioned towards my features. Going through all the many layers, armed with just a curling iron and a magical serum solvent, it was perhaps quite an un-covetted operation to take on, but still one that is much more pleasant to do on a bust at home than in a hotel room on my own hair.
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