Back to Titanic: Rose's Boarding Suit 

I concur & will add that pad stitching won't be an option. This jacket is basically men's tailoring on a curvier figure, but the basic rules still apply. The collar and labels require pad stitching and roll line support in order to behave properly and look good. It's truly a night and day difference. The issues with the collar will go away if you pad stitch with hair canvas (or hymo...cheaper cousin), steam it, fold on the reinforced roll line & let dry overnight while pinned to a ham. The pad stitching forces the fabric to behave in the way you want. I've even used it on synthetic fabrics and it still makes a big difference. Good luck!!

I definitely need more practice with how to use pad stitching. Unfortunately there's just not time for learning it on this project.

@@LadyRebeccaFashions I understand being under a time crunch. Pad stitching is a very easy stitch. It's a diagonal stitch in rows that looks like a herringbone pattern that allows you to shape with the stitches and a horsehair backing. You might be able to create the stability without pad stitching with heavy fusible interlining. I have a fusible that mimics the horse hair in weight and shape control, I have not tried it yet. It looks like a millinery fabric but it irons on. You would probably have to heat it up and then pin it to a ham or a roll in the shape you want and to let it cool that way. As I've said I have not experimented with that yet, but it's been running around my mind for a while as a faster down and dirty version of pad stitching. A down and dirty for the back of the collar would be modifying a man's collar stand to help hold the back of the collar up. I think the Historical Emporium has men's collar stands in their inventory.

Yeah, I watched her video, and she started with a very different pattern to get basically the same result, which was interesting.

Please feel free to dm me pics on Instagram! I'd love to see it!

@@LadyRebeccaFashions it wouldn't let me send you pics for some reason so I tagged you in a couple. The last two things to is the last of the beading and attaching the train piece. That bodice and all the beading gave me a hand cramp lol

I was so thankful there were close-up photos!

Do you think that will still work now that I've spray painted the hat? (You'll see that in next week's video)

It should! Just to be safe you might try on the sections that will be covered by the enormous bow as a test run. I bet it will work!!! Keep me posted!!!

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Thanks! I watched all your boarding suit videos again in the lead-up to starting it! ☺️

Thanks!

I'll have to go back and dig through her videos - I don't remember those! Tbh, the jump dress is one of my least favs of hers, and the dinner dress is soo gorgeous, but the idea of making it totally scares me!

Thank you! 🩷

😂😂 as long as you have enough hair to support it, the bigger the better! 😉

Thanks!

Thanks! It's funny, once I set the sleeves on, I went to add shoulder pads, and found I didn't need them (like, there wasn't room for them to go). It was weird!

@@LadyRebeccaFashions Oh how interesting!

Thanks!

I did draft this myself - I just used the paper pattern as the jumping off point. And I do have a sloper for various other types of patterns, like princess seam bodices and Victorian bodices.

I think it's just so iconic, and such a moment when she appears on screen. It's always stood out to me, even though it's not my fav of her costumes.

@@LadyRebeccaFashions thank

She's wearing the court gown right now, since I'm working on that simultaneously.

Tbh, it was mostly that the only person who had it lived in Germany! I think the pattern itself was like $20 and the shipping was the rest.

@@LadyRebeccaFashions Not as bad as it sounded, still too bad it was so expensive! Anyway, I see that you did an amazing job figuring it out on your own!