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Sexy skirts #1346 - Orange and the new Black

7/25/2014

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At least, Simplicity made it into a new Orange and Black skirt after I sent it up to them.  This is what this skirt looked like when I finished with it.
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You see, I already had this GREAT corset with the neat organdy ruffle-shrug thing for the neck and shoulders. It needed a skirt.
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This was the sketch I had made for this skirt. I based it on a photograph of skirt I had seen, but that skirt was made of tulle. Also that skirt, I bet, had half of it long and half of it short.


I, on the other hand, had to make this skirt out of organdy to go with the cool neck/shoulder ruffle thing, that I loved so much I wasn't going to change.  And, I had to use the same pattern pieces I was using for some of the other skirts, which meant that the back/longer part was 2/3's of the skirt and the front part was only 1/3 of the skirt, which didn't allow the legs to show very well.


This is what I got ...

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Not what I wanted ... grrrr ... think, think, think!

deadline looming .... 
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What to do? So, I started playing around with ways to pull the fulness to the back.
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First idea ... looked good from the front, but the back was kind of stupid.
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So then I starting thinking about how wedding dresses are bustled and pinned the front corners of the long section together in the back. I pinned the black and orange layers separately.
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For this effect.
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And I pinned the sides of the outer organdy skirt to the short lining skirt to puff it out and hold it back.
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Like this.
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This is what I sent up to Simplicity with my samples. But, I have to admit it was a complicated solution.  
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And after all that, look what happened to it in New York!  The perfect and simple solution!


I, also, put this diagram in the box with all the samples.
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It shows how to arrange the feathers for the bustle.


Three feather boas are simply pinned to the bustle pillow that is part of the whole skirt/apron thing. Sewing feather boas is a super pain.  The thread is constantly getting caught up in the feathers.  I thought this would be a good solution AND later, if you want, you can take the boas off and use them for something else.
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next time ...


the corsets.

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