Sewing & Chatting: Q&A and making 18th century petticoats and stomachers 

She was also a professional production seamstress which probably helps with just the pure stamina of sitting at a sewing machine for long periods of time

Yeah I'm lucky if I make more than two things in a year! (And each thing will be like. a shirt. a pair of stays. not an outfit.) Comparison doesn't help anyone, we should be proud of what we make!

They say comparison is the thief of joy. Besides you have different styles and motivations. She's good at what she does. You're good at what you do.

I love her content, it seems like everything she does though she does 110%. Which I love watching but could never dream of recreating myself!

I subscribe to both you and the Closet Historian. I enjoy both your videos for different reasons. Also remember she lives with her family and will not have as much household work to do.

also, block printing is absolutely a thing, and was then! i would be shocked if no one had a block printed stomacher at the time.

Same! It definitely changes over the years, and gets maybe a little less giddy and smoochy, but 100% more than balanced out by the depth of the relationship and your skill in understanding each other and maintaining the relationship. If both of you are working together to make it stay good, it totally can get even better.

I do think communities were self sufficient but not so much individual nuclear families. Self through much of history and across a variety of cultures was a much wider circle

I know, I know, but sometimes you get stuck comparing yourself 🙃

Glad to hear you know!! Beating that annoying voice in the back of your head is hard but you make tell it to be quiet!

This, so much this. Making realistic clothes to wear in real life is seriously helpful.

he's just the first one that came to my mind, but it seems like every tiktok/reel/short creator all use the same dress form. Draping patterns is super easy when you barely have any curves to deal with! But then when you size-grade up from there, the patterns get more and more unrealistic for your average curvier person to work with.

​@MariahPattie the thing is it's because it's the cheap display form. You can get those for $40 on sale at Jo-Ann's or you can pick them up used. They are not meant to be draping forms. Obviously because it's highlights to look optimally the best. But real dress warms don't actually look like that he just being cheap and easy. And it's fine if you're close enough to the measurements to that display form that it will work for you. It's not good enough to make an actual product off of. Especially when you see a lot of these videos with that display dress form use they don't actually finish making the dress for someone to wear it's always on the dress form. So don't get to cut up on that. Do be upset that people are using it for a final product and expect it to somehow magically work for real human bodies outside of a very select few. But there are dress forms whether it's p mg, who do carry human shape dress forms, including plus size. That are on the inexpensive side and there are companies who will make a full-on 3D digital version dress form a custom physical dress form to that size but it costs thousands of dollars. So go beyond the lookout for dress forms on sale and try not to fall for these stylized display mannequins. Because they're very inexpensive and they look pretty but they're not realistic. You can tell because they typically have a unibu their rib cage goes down into a cone shape and then they have hips but once you really look at them they're not very defined hips. I was thinking of someone who's been thousands of dollars on actual dress forms with back rolls. You can find better ones than this stupid display forms because they're so cheap they're popped out real quick. And yes the several thousand dollar dress forms are extremely nice and definitely worth it because a lot more work goes into them to make them usable as a body double compared to typical dress forms. But there are not in most people's budgets for the available standard versions let alone the full-on custom versions. But do you look up for second-hand ones you can find them for relatively cheap, so a few hundred dollars versus several hundred dollars or $1,000.

What about using a platform that already exists like a Facebook page or group? I'm not on Facebook, but surely there is a social media platform that is free that could be used for this!

😄 Caleb has been reading my stuff. It's very good motivation to keep on it.

@@MariahPattie I wish he was in the discord so we could get his reactions lol

@RainuviaYT he is in it, but neither of us have been on discord for a while. The story he’s reading has not been posted yet

in real life, probably. But I will probably only wear these costumes a few times a year, so I'm not too worried.

I think it largely depends on the age of your town. My city was a small midwestern town until about the 1970's when it started growing exponentially (you can see that in the architecture of the houses), but it never became particularly wealthy. Thrift stores just tend to only have newer, junkier stuff. Nothing old enough or expensive enough to be quality. But when I go to thrifting in other parts of the country, it's a totally different story.

@MariahPattie The city I live in, Jönköping, has been around since the 13th century, at least, and is the 10th biggest in Sweden with a hundred thousand people, or so, living here

@@saram3156 I'm in Jönköping, sweden

@saram3156 I decided to make a video and talk about what I do

​@@Sekreterare75 Im also in Sweden and do the same thing, Im living in the middle of nowhere but close enough to Borås (textile industry and the textileschool and so on) to be able to find loads of fabric and other things I need for sowing. 🙂

I've actually used printed fabric for that before, and it worked wonderfully. I won't be doing that with this stomacher though. I am saving to get an embroidery machine at some point, and recreating this design as an embroidery file would be one of my first projects.

I'll probably start with Nigerian Dwarfs. They seem like the easiest to manage. Later on I want to research and find the best breeds for milk/fat content. I know it's possible to make butter and multiple kinds of cheese from goat's milk, but the fat content is different and it's a lot harder to work with than cow's milk.

Alpine goats were great milk goats. They're climbers though so tall fences and protect your vehicles.

Burnley and trowbridge. I believe it’s still available. It was labeled “pale olive” worsted wool stuff, $16 per yard

It is the central triangle piece on the bodice of an early 18th century gown. Sometimes plain, sometimes decorated, sometimes matching and sometimes contrasting.

@@MariahPattie well now it’s name makes total sense! Thanks!

I believe these sets are called "Kimball" reproductions. They were made in the 1970's. I used to have a full set in burgundy upholstery, but I don't have room for it here so I sold it. A while later I found a nice single chair in green. They are pretty common on my facebook marketplace. Sometimes they are expensive, but deals come up occasionally.

Detachable what? I’m not sure what part of the video you’re referencing.

@@MariahPattie 11:38 is where she shows what she uses to makes the skirt extension removable so she can have both a Victorian skirt and a "modern" one.