Fun with Costuming

[kurenai_tenka]

I think I'm going to gut the last dress I made. I'm still... really not happy with it. Obvious I need to fix the sleeve bottom that's the wrong way round (hur), but the messy lace at the neckline is annoying the heck out of me too. Not to mention, why is every single dress I make too big on me? I make the top to my size, and it's still not fitted (

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[squintywitch]

Do you fit your pieces on you before you sew them? It makes a big difference I find. Also pattern sizes seem to bear no relation to real world sizes!

But doing a fitting is the only way. Or doing a muslin. Aaaarg.

[kurenai_tenka]

Do you mean making a mock-up? To be honest, I've never had that much patience (probably my downfall...) I try it on as I go along, and it all seems to fit fine until it's completely together, and then it's always right enough to look okay, but it's just not fitted.

As for pattern sizes, I go off the size that matches my measurements, or do you mean even that isn't accurate?

(Thanks for the reply!)

[squintywitch]

I hardly ever make a mock up but fitting as you go should work. Hm. I wonder why not for you.

If they're laced dresses, they do need to be a bit neat as as soon as you lace them you suddenly realise they're too big...

[kurenai_tenka]

Heh, maybe I just have no sense of whether something's going to be too big or not. :) I tend to expect that there will be less excess by the time it's all sewn together, and then there isn't.

I think with laced things I need to make them smaller in general... since as you say, I end up lacing it to maximum and realising it's too big.