#cause the full meaning wouldn't fit in the box lmao

[monty-glasses-roxy]

ALRIGHT LADS

What do we think? Good bingo card or nah?

Lumped some together because... well I had more than 25 lmao

Gonna go do some stuff and then go read it. Place your bets on a bingo and for how well this is gonna go now! How much will this drive me up the wall? What's in the Tubes this time? Are there more fun words to find?

We shall see!

[fabrickind]

Hello! Hope it is okay to ask for advice on this but I’m trying to make a dress with deeply weird structure, specifically Rhea’s white dress from Fire Emblem: Three Houses. It has what looks like a single box pleat at center front, but is otherwise extremely fitted. I’m trying to figure out how to get the dress to fit correctly without the extra fabric just causing it to be extremely loose at the waist.

I have some ideas of how it could be accomplished (I was thinking of adding princess seams and flat lining it to a lining without the center front pleat to try and force it to lay smooth) but I don’t know if that would work or if there’s a better approach. Similarly I was thinking of trying to add boning, but most of the patterns I’ve gone through don’t call for boning and I’m a) not sure how to add it in and b) not sure if it gets me anything for this dress.

Any advice you have would be appreciated!

Hello there!

I assume the dress on the left here? She seems to have a few outfits, but this is all I could find with what you describe.

My mind immediately went to a robe a la francaise, which has a similar pleated detail in the back, but I'm not sure if that's the effect you want.

Looking at patterns for those would probably help a lot in conceptualizing, though. It seems to be that the skirt portion has an extension in the back that goes up higher and then is sewn into the neckline, creating that flat pleated back with the space between it and the bodice, but still being integrated into the skirt.

This requires the bodice and skirt to be cut as separate pieces, however, and you may not want that. In that case.....honestly? I'd make the pleat part as a separate piece and sew it to the neckline and the hemline so it gives the illusion of being incorporated into the skirt, but doesn't require any horizontal seams at the waist. If you want a really bonkers pattern and don't mind a seam further down the skirt where it starts to flare, you can add the extension to that instead of having a waist seam.

Bad diagrams of what I mean lmao (that second one someone looks like Texas is flipping you off)

You might be able to incorporate it as the full dress? but your pattern would be absolutely whack and I wouldn't recommend it.

If you have questions or don't understand, let me know.

Hope that helps! Good luck :]