This week's Historical Sew Fortnightly challenge was "separates", so I decided to make up one of my antique 1910's patterns that I bought this summer. It is a very basic 7-gore skirt, and I'm guessing that it is from the very early 1910's. As is often the case with patterns from this period, it actually turned out to be more A-line than the pattern drawing leads you to believe. I made it from some wool houndstooth from my stash in green and black, and my original intention was to make a jacket to go with it later this fall. It went together really quickly over the weekend, so that was nice since I was pretty exhausted from CoCo, and I was looking for a project that didn't require much effort.
But unfortunately, I'm not in love with the final skirt. There's some odd puckering along a few seams that refuses to iron out, and even though I sized it down twice, it is still too roomy over the hips, which you can't really see in this picture, but it is more obvious in life. Also, I was hoping for a skirt with straighter lines so it would have a more "modern" 1910's look. This flared shape is a bit old-fashioned for the jacket I had picked out, so there's a pretty good chance that this will be the one and only wearing of this skirt. I think I'll take it apart and try again with a different pattern when I get around to making the jacket.
Oh well. You win some, you lose some.
7 comments:
Hm... the shape of those pattern pieces and the finished skirt don't look anything like, do they? I hate when that happens!
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Quinn
What a bummer! It's gorgeous fabric, and I really like the overall shape (though it certainly isn't the slim look the pattern shows) but I think I can see the pulling on the seam. I'd guess it was from the grainlines changing across the skirt.
Good luck with re-making, and good on you for getting right back in to sewing after Costume College. I'm exhausted just thinking about it.
What a marvelous turn of events! I desperately, ardently, NEED a pattern with that shape, from that time period. Are you interested in selling the pattern, by any chance?
Choll - I'm not really interested in selling any patterns right now, but Wearing History has a skirt pattern that has a similar shape: http://www.wearinghistorypatterns.com/cordelia/
I think it looks great. I would wear it. I'm sure you can utilize the skirt in some way.
I think it looks lovely! You could always taper in your seams to create a straighter silhouette.
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