Today is going to be a very, very short entry. The bulk of September has really whooshed passed, and soon, October will be here. October means lots of planning for NaNoWriMo, which, for some reason, I have it in my head that I'll enter again, despite sucking wind every year. On top of that, GCS is in November, and I had originally planned to have unique outfit for each day, though that seems less likely as the days pass.
Anyway, I really just wanted to give you a teaser for progress with the plastic dress. Last time, I left off with the skirt in all it's poofy glory. This time, a quick overview of what I'm doing with the top.
I wanted to try a corset-like top with pinstripes. Since plastic doesn't breathe at all, I thought I would try to at least use a lighter material - more trash bags:
The striping was made with more red electric tape - flexible, sturdy, and very, very sticky. After the striping was done, then came the tricky part: forming the material to the right shape. In sewing, there's a technique called darting that allows one to sew pieces in a way to make it fit to the body. It's a little hard to do that with plastic, but I gave it a shot:
Unfortunately, about halfway through the second piece, I realized that I looked more like a pirate wench than my original direction. Currently, this is what it looks like with the skirt:
Right now, my biggest concern is that the dress form that I own is at least two sizes to big for me, a fact I sadly discovered the first time I transferred the skirt to my own body. None of this dress will stretch, and it certainly won't shrink, so I don't know how well I'll be able to adjust to shirt to my... less-than-ample front.
This piece has a LOT of work ahead of it, and not a lot of time. Time to kick it into hyper drive.
Until the next.
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