[MR] Fitted and Supportive Kirtle/Cotehardie

[Denise Nelson]

The one I'm currently at work on has a supportive (spiral laced)
underdress and a slightly looser (non-supportive) overdress. 
Unfortunately, I've stopped work on it while I'm on the Atkins diet (who
else can loose 3 pounds while on a two week holiday vacation?) and it
wasn't finished, so I can't tell you how it turned out.  I'm hoping that
there will be less to support this summer!

Good luck!
Lady Alienor de Narbonne

On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 09:08:22 -0800 (PST), "Betty Eyer"
<betty_eyer at yahoo.com> said:
> I don't know what any of the ladies look like who have
> recently posted, so please do not take this as a
> personal comment.
> 
> I have looked at these websites and admire these
> industrious ladies who obviously have put a lot of
> work and time into getting a particular look.  And I
> have made similar dresses with various levels of
> success and failure.  Notable is the otherwise
> beautiful but unfortunately spiral black dress with
> lovely pewter buttons to accentuate the twisted fit.  
> 
> Maybe the illusive and undocumentable explanation for
> the fit of these dresses in period is due to the fact
> that the standard of beauty was then, as in our own
> time, thin and somewhat flatchested teenagers???? 
> 
> And if you do succeed in fitting one of these dresses
> to lift up a large and somewhat less than bouyant
> chest, how the heck do you keep the buttons from
> pulling into an unflattering gap, unbuttoning
> themselves, tearing the fabric, popping across the
> feast table when you sneeze, etc.?  No joke, all of
> these things have happened to me with the button down
> the front fitted dress.  I finally got one to look
> good by sewing the bust together with a whip stitch so
> that the pressure is not on the buttons at all. It is
> quite a spectacle when I have to get in or out of it.
> I got the idea that I was not what the designer of
> that style had in mind.
> 
> In this modern time, the style is to have stretch hip
> hugger jeans worn with tops that don't quite make it
> to the waistband of the jeans.  I don't wear that
> style and fitting the jeans differently will not make
> it flattering.  My teenage step daughter looks cute as
> pie in it.
> 
> Word.
> 
> --- "Kathrina A. Black" <kblack at breckenvale.com>
> wrote:
> > Many months ago someone posted a link to a website
> > that showed with great photos and text, how to make
> > a fitted kirtle (or cotehardie, can't remember
> > which) that would support your bust.  Does anyone
> > know this website?  If so, could you please post it.
> >  I saved it to my favorites, but when my computer
> > crashed, I think it was lost.
> > 
> > -Catriona inghean Ghiricc
> >
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