#draped dress

[professorpski]

A Fairy Princess Dress: Vogue 1931

This re-issued pattern from 1957 will make you wish you had a ball to attend. It has an enormous skirt, which really needs a stiff petticoat to make the most of it, and comes with two strapless bodice options. One, has decorative lacing down the front and is attached to the skirt. The other one, the fairy princess one, has a separate “overbodice” as they call it, which goes over the dress and which has a pleated frill added along the top edge, a draped apron below (although they call it a  pannier,” French for basket) and then a great, big bow at the back which closes with 10 buttons.

The late 1950s was the era of the hour-glass silhouette, and while romantic looks in evening dresses had been popular since the late 1940s, and was clearly the selling point here, notice how spare the grey version was, a sign of change to come. The dress requires over 10 yards of fabric at 60″ wide for the dress itself (it is mostly the skirt) and the additional overbodice takes up around 3 yards. 

Quite something. In fact, I am pretty sure you can’t even put it on by yourself in the bowed version. As to the making, remember that strapless dresses are built from the waist upwards. The boning which is inserted within the lining is what defies gravity for you, and you should definitely muslin the bodice to make sure it fits nicely. I don’t see any indication in the description, but most strapless dresses also benefit from an inner belt which helps hold the shape of the dress in and up as well.

The fabrics recommended are ones to make you sigh: silk organdie, taffeta, moire, faille, chiffon and crepe, as well as barathea which is a silk/cotton birds-eye weave with one fabric as the warp and one as the weft. No, I have never seen one either. Notice some are crispy, and some very soft and drapey, so first decide how big you want to appear and whether you want to add that petticoat. and then pick your fabric. If you compare the width of the skirts in the illustrations v. those in the line drawings and you see what a petticoat would do.

You can find it at your local fabric store or here online: https://somethingdelightful.com/vogue-patterns/v1931

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[mididressobsessed]

Source: etsy.com

[floriavintage]

1980s Casadei Draped Asymmetric Sheath Dress

[emotionallydistresseddenim]

Chloe Magno for the inaugural issue of Vogue Philippines shot by Sharif Hamza

[corn-idol]

some crazy practice for fun

[araz-namow]

[crocordile]

Happy valentines daaaaay <3

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Beautiful example of the art of fabric draping. Can you imagine this as the ultimate Goth wedding dress?

via Butch Wax Vintage

[demi-pixellated]

Sage of Earth🎶

[symphonyincoordination]

[lostangel-moon]

Working on a wedding dress

[liesandbrokenhearts]

[techs-cyarika]

Tech smutty fic ideas (because I’m a tech death denier and in my mind everyone’s safe and sound on Pabu living their best lives)

Warnings: 18+, mentions of prostitution

1) Phee has a lover on Pabu who she keeps very well kept. Like I’m talking sugar baby status, but that doesn’t mean her lover doesn’t have any real emotions for Phee like they are very much in love. However they both are very generous lovers and have a tendency towards sharing (if you get my drift). So when the tall brown eyed (they all have brown eyes, but there really is something special about his), genius clone Phee has been telling her lover about finally visits Pabu, the two start scheming on how to get him into their bed

2) The Bad Batchers need their resident genius to learn how to chill out and find him the sweetest, prettiest, most patient escort they possibly can (recommended by Phee, of course). Tech, in usual Tech fashion, has his nose shoved into his data pad until the escort gives him something else to study.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Wait-

What about your Human AU, when does Eddie get into the lake?!

uhhhh *rolls dice* the group gets Shitfaced™️ and Eddie wakes up on a partially flooded raft in the middle of yeah, the lake <3 no idea how he got there <3

[photosofchaos]

Valdrin Sahiti Resort 23