professional bad example

new front for choli-slash-regency bodice draft. if it fits well, the next step will be one with my own armscye and sleeves and with a jewel neckline.

yeah, so according to traditional western patternmaking this would never make it to the mockup stage because the pattern would be deemed obviously wrong. good thing that at some point i said "hmm, indian patternmaking looks interesting", huh? or hell, even if you move a little less far away from western europe, places like poland and russia were doing interesting things that still involved way more rectangular cutting when in western europe that only really stuck around in chemises, and even then had largely disappeared by the 1850s. i guess fabrics became cheaper when power looms were developed because less human labour was required, so saving fabric by using the more efficient layouts of rectangular pattern layouts wasn't as important anymore...




shiny!