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elizabeth_mn) wrote2015-07-05 04:25 pm
elizabeth_mn) wrote2015-07-05 04:25 pm
spencer ideas
So I have the bodice of my Little White Regency Dress sewn. I am doing it all by hand. I need to try it on before I keep going (because I am paranoid, and I screw up a lot) but I HATE having to lace my stays up constantly. It's not like an easy-on, easy-off Victorian corset. It takes ages.
So I figured I would make it count by fitting my spencer mockup at the same time. But that means I have to figure out what the spencer will look like...
I know I have a couple wools in my stash, a mustard yellow and at least one deep teal blue. Right around the turn of the century the look is kind of loose, unstructured, with flappy bits everywhere and so on. I am going for a little later look, 1810-15-ish, when things became a little more tidy.
Here are a few plates I am looking at.
Fitted, nice collar: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/229894755952894174/
These sleeves are too crazy but I like the front: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/490188740669191893/
I probably won't do this trim, but I like the shape: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/268456827762195310/
A little fussy but cute: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/131589620337526759/
Love the fitted-ness, the collar, the color: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/178032991493300959/
The shape, the yellow, the bow! https://www.pinterest.com/pin/431501208018223050/
So I figured I would make it count by fitting my spencer mockup at the same time. But that means I have to figure out what the spencer will look like...
I know I have a couple wools in my stash, a mustard yellow and at least one deep teal blue. Right around the turn of the century the look is kind of loose, unstructured, with flappy bits everywhere and so on. I am going for a little later look, 1810-15-ish, when things became a little more tidy.
Here are a few plates I am looking at.
Fitted, nice collar: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/229894755952894174/
These sleeves are too crazy but I like the front: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/490188740669191893/
I probably won't do this trim, but I like the shape: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/268456827762195310/
A little fussy but cute: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/131589620337526759/
Love the fitted-ness, the collar, the color: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/178032991493300959/
The shape, the yellow, the bow! https://www.pinterest.com/pin/431501208018223050/