sew, sew, sew

I have been in a sewing frenzy all weekend, although I suppose "frenzy" is perhaps not a word that should be applied to hand-stitching. But my final-draft bustle skirt is all done but for the hooks (and I need to go buy heavier-duty hooks than the ones I have). I put it on the dressmaker's dummy with the shirt and vest I plan to wear it with, and it looks nice. Now I just need to thrift an underskirt, and possibly sew a bustle pad, and I can count that costume as done. Pictures tomorrow, I think.

i like big bustles and i cannot lie.

I made a bustle pad (basically an oversize bum roll) to go under my costume skirt and it looks SO MUCH BETTER now. I finally have the right silhouette! No wonder Victorian women wore so many goddamn undergarments.