underwares

Haiku to Julie's camicia

it is so lovely
graceful gathers on the cuffs
redwork abounds here

Haiku to my camicia

eyelets on my wrists
no substitute for blackwork
oops, guess i cheated


 

Okay, I'll quit with the horrible poetry. So anyway, I didn't end up doing Julie's lovely custom-designed blackwork (scroll down past her humorous attempts to wriggle into a dress) on the camicia. I'm just not that sold on this chemise, and I can't see doing all that work on something I'm not too keen on....I'll save it for something else. In a vague attempt to pretty the camicia up a bit, I slapped some lace on there.

And because you haven't seen enough of me in my underwear yet, here's a second picture in which I've put on the corded petticoat as well. I'm kind of pleased with how this worked out. The stomacher/placket/dickey/whatever is attached to the corset with 9 sets of hook-and-eyes so that it can't wander off, but I can still use the corset for other ensembles. However, I left the bottom loose so that I can put my petticoat over the corset tabs, but under the stomacher/placket/dickey/whatever. Tricksy, no?


 

Oh and one other little change to the dress. I was having a hard time with lacing through the ribbon. I still think that Jen Thompson's concept is solid, it's just that when I switched to a larger diameter cord, I can no longer get it through the ribbon without a wrestling match. I could have ripped the ribbon out and tried again, but I thought that would be kind of difficult, since the first time I did it I didn't have the outer layer of fabric to worry about. I just left the ribbon in place and sewed in lacing rings (28 of the stupid things to be exact). This doesn't lace up quite as smoothly as the ribbon did, but it's a whole lot easier to deal with.