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Grande Assiette Cote Fittings

  • Feb. 13th, 2012 at 1:07 AM
Edna Mode from The Incredibles
So I had more fittings for Calum's grande assiette cote today. 

Here are pictures from the pattern I draped in my first attempt (the one I wasn't that happy with) -- I got it to fit reasonably well... but I still was not pleased... it did not have the characteristic shape to the front gore:

 

Happily, both my Reconstructing History pattern and Tasha's book showed up, plus I found this rather useful article: http://thescholarsgarret.com/artifact/aissiette/

They all actually ended up looking very very similar, so before the fitting I had scheduled today I cut out the Reconstructing History version - which went together very easily - and after much (expected) adjusting to Calum's figure I'm extremely happy with the results:

 
(no, there's not a center back seam; there's just a lot of fabric to be removed from the center back...)

There's still another round of fitting/patterning to go, but I think I'm finally on the right track! :-D Of course, choosing to go back to the drawing board with the patten means I'm probably a week behind where I wanted to be; but it's better to be happy with the result then to be on-schedule, right?
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[info]operafantomet wrote:
Feb. 13th, 2012 11:06 am (UTC)
It definitely looks like you're on the right track. Impressive fitting so far.
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[info]sbuchler wrote:
Feb. 13th, 2012 12:45 pm (UTC)
:-D Thanks!
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[info]kass_rants wrote:
Feb. 13th, 2012 12:24 pm (UTC)
Looking good!
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[info]sbuchler wrote:
Feb. 13th, 2012 12:47 pm (UTC)
Thanks to your pattern! :-D
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[info]kass_rants wrote:
Feb. 13th, 2012 12:56 pm (UTC)
And your skill!
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[info]reasie wrote:
Feb. 13th, 2012 02:23 pm (UTC)
Calumn is standing there like "I have no pants! Bwa ha ha!"

:)

Lookin' good!
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[info]sbuchler wrote:
Feb. 14th, 2012 04:50 am (UTC)
Thanks! :-D
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(Anonymous) wrote:
Feb. 14th, 2012 05:15 pm (UTC)
And here I thought you would be so smitten with my eyes that you wouldn't notice anything else about the pictures. Yes, even the ones from behind. :-)

--Calum
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[info]bauhausfrau wrote:
Feb. 13th, 2012 04:15 pm (UTC)
Cool! It's kind of neat to see muslin fittings on a male form for a change, I find menswear of any era so much more difficult.
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[info]sbuchler wrote:
Feb. 14th, 2012 04:44 am (UTC)
I certainly found this doublet more difficult then the female equivalent - I find the arm construction seriously counterintuitive - I see that it works and gives a marvelous range of motion... but it hurts my head to think about ;-).
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[info]kimikosews wrote:
Feb. 13th, 2012 05:42 pm (UTC)
Nice work! The armhole is much larger than I had expected. But this is interesting to see.
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[info]sbuchler wrote:
Feb. 14th, 2012 04:45 am (UTC)
Thanks! Some of that is an optical illusion - the sleeve is laid on top of the armhole and there is a great deal of overlap... but if you're looking at the right side armhole... yeah, it is big :-)
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[info]gwacie wrote:
Feb. 13th, 2012 06:24 pm (UTC)
I really like how the narrow back panel emphasizes the manly manly shoulders :) The photos seem to flatten it out a bit, was hotter lookin' in person ;)
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[info]sbuchler wrote:
Feb. 14th, 2012 04:48 am (UTC)
je ne sais pas. Glad you think it's hotter in person! :-) (I like the way it highlights the shoulders too ;-) )
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