St. Elizabeth of Thuringia Gown Part 1: The Body

[sbuchler]

Despite there being a "cutting diagram" of the St. Elizabeth of Thuringia Gown, actually figuring out the pattern for the body of the dress turned out to be much more complicated then I expected, despite it's deceptively simple lines:

Comments

[unclrashid]

I've always been curious about the St Elizabeth cutting diagram. Are those notches missing from the top of the back side gores an extension of the armhole, or do they get sewn closed, sort of like a dart? If they work like darts, they'd make more sense on the front. What did you decide?

[sbuchler]

Extension of the armhole -- it made sense to me based on the weirdnesses of the Maciejowski arm slit thing (which I hypothesize as a more extreme example) plus, in my experiments, it ended up replicating the drape of the codex manesse sleeves at the armseye pretty well -- but the sleeve experiments are my next post on the topic ;-)

[gwacie]

It looks so good! :) Tell me more about the sleeves too :)

[sbuchler]

That's my next post ;-) Lots of experiments there -- it's going to take a few days to put it together.