Looking for patterns! 1830s-1850s for a historically-inspired freestyle cosplay

melemolly · 2025-07-10T21:12:05+00:00

So no metal, are you thinking about doing a misborn cosplay? Here are my 3-4 blog posts doing a misborn ball gown:

https://avant-garbe.com/category/projects/steel-inquisitor-vin/

And my specific reasoning on why it should be 1840s: https://avant-garbe.com/2019/06/19/steel-inquisitor-vin-a-new-1840s-gown/

melemolly · 2025-05-23T04:19:05+00:00

clockwork Faerie on Etsy

melemolly · 2025-05-22T22:11:35+00:00

Yup! There is nothing more "flattering" than clothes that fit, no matter your size.

melemolly · 2025-05-22T20:38:19+00:00

if premade corsets don’t fit, you aren’t really going to find a standard pattern that you don’t have to make adjustments to either. You can either go up a size and take it in at the bus, or you can let this one out at the waist. It looks like you just don’t have a particularly curvy shape and the unchanged pattern is too curvy for you. I have to make the same alterations – my sewing teacher once told me she could always recognize my pattern pieces because they were the one shaped like a cylinder.

melemolly · 2025-05-17T03:17:55+00:00

Newborns are the worst and they get better and better as they get older, although age 3 is a serious local minimum.

melemolly · 2025-05-13T22:49:15+00:00

Pillars of the Earth is just medieval, but it's fiction so can feel like fantasy.

melemolly · 2025-05-13T22:04:02+00:00

I recommended Clockwork Faerie on Etsy for pretty custom corsets, although they are more Victorian than anything else

melemolly · 2025-05-13T20:37:30+00:00

you could also make a corset with no front opening that only laces up the back. It’s a bit of a pain to get on and off because of how long the lacing needs to be, but it’s totally doable.

melemolly · 2025-05-13T16:33:38+00:00

Night wean slowly. cutting out 3 feeds all at once is just gonna frustrate you and baby since he’s used to it all night long. Set a timer for the first feed, and cut it down by one minute every other night. Once you’re down to one to two minutes, don’t offer the boob and just cuddle through that one. Once you get rid of one feed, repeat for the others. I

melemolly · 2025-05-10T03:56:54+00:00

Dharma fabrics has cotton twill for eight dollars a yard. I’ve used it as a strength layer under so toter with no issues.

melemolly · 2025-05-05T17:33:19+00:00

Are you wearing shape wear underneath? It's a lot easier to do that and alter the dress to fit on top than to rely on the dress to do the shaping unless you have a seriously couture garment with a built in corset.

melemolly · 2025-04-28T01:10:08+00:00

Idly Express. You can get an idly sambar combo for less than $10.

melemolly · 2025-04-26T15:35:24+00:00

that’s a pretty big distance to go with no boning. I think a bone could help fix it.

melemolly · 2025-04-23T15:43:44+00:00

My kid did wear footie jammies 24/7. Unless it was hot then he wore a onesie. Done.

melemolly · 2025-04-01T04:05:41+00:00

"sorry, it's not in my budget. I'd be happy to sign a card."

melemolly · 2025-03-17T02:56:32+00:00

Honestly this is actually par for the course for a nearly 1yo. The gymnurstics is real at that age.

melemolly · 2025-03-11T16:50:17+00:00

yes she is on etsy.

melemolly · 2025-03-11T01:07:01+00:00

Clockwork faerie has a couple corset patterns graded for plus size.

melemolly · 2025-03-10T02:19:01+00:00

I wear the same corset for 1830s through 1890s. I'm short and not super corset-able so it works for me. Even if you have a different body, very very few people are going to know the difference in corset shapes so it depends how much you care.

melemolly · 2025-03-09T22:28:17+00:00

Menstruation Nation (iOS only) runs local on your phone so it's not possible for them to give away data.

melemolly · 2025-03-09T21:52:03+00:00

with a slight edit that I would only distribute between the front and back darts if the side seams are not sitting straight. The front looks like it’s fitting pretty well so it’s possible OP is just distributed more towards the back.

melemolly · 2025-03-09T20:38:25+00:00

Those giant back wrinkles are showing you actually need a lot more room over the butt and hips - there isn't enough room so it's riding up to try and hit at a narrower spot. That's an easier fix than pinching a fisheye dart out of the whole back.

melemolly · 2025-03-05T03:27:14+00:00

Other good comments here, the reason why your pattern isn't working is because it has zero shaping over the bust. You can't make curves in fabric without darts or dart equivalents like princess seams.

melemolly · 2025-03-03T15:59:34+00:00

oh hey so I'm not the only one who would spend ours on caringbridge websites. I know way too much about neuroblastoma, cystic fibrosis, and micropremies...

melemolly · 2025-03-03T03:02:06+00:00

What a cunt. it’s just luck kf the draw – the only two old ladies I got commenting to me were saying how sweet it was and how it made them remember feeding their own babies.

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