Drape a CUSTOM FIT Victorian Bodice Block ft.
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- Опубліковано 22 кві 2023
- In this video, the amazing @LiljaHusmo teaches us how to drape a Victorian bodice block, so you and a friend can make a custom-fit Victorian bodice block to utilise for your historical ensembles!
The entire process of draping a historical bodice block is covered, including how to drape sleeves which is often a part that gets left out.
Being able to fit historical fashion patterns, in particular mid-Victorian, can be quite complex, and this method is meant to serve as a guide to get you started on a well-fit pattern that you can then make a mock-up of and adjust subtly as needed before making a Victorian bodice or the bodice portion of a Victorian dress.
A big thanks to Lilja Husmo for doing this demonstration! Be sure to go and follow her UA-cam channel as she makes amazing videos. A big thanks as well to Sandy for helping with the filming!
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Thanks so much for watching, and I'll see you all in two weeks for another video!
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Sources:
1840s-60s Bodices:
www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...
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Different Mid-Victorian Sleeves:
www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...
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Corsets:
www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...
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I hope you enjoyed this super in-depth tutorial! A major thanks to Lilja for demonstrating her wonderful knowledge and to Sandy for helping with the filming! Be sure to go and follow Lilja on UA-cam 🥰 Also, I'm about to hit 75K subscribers any minute now. WOW! THANK YOU SO MUCH EVERYONE 💕
You Are Really Briliant 🥰🥰🥰 God Bless You Dear ☺️
Thank you so much for introducing us to your amazing and creative friends! I ❤ meeting more folks like us 😅
Thanks for showing the process and the introduction to Lilia!
It looks like you did achieve 75k! Congratulations!! 🥳 And thanks for the in depth tutorial.
What a fantastic episode! I truly enjoyed seeing such an in-depth, yet totally doable way to create a pattern, that's fit to individual size. It looks like that would work for the bottom half of the body as well.
Very interesting to watch and fun to learn !
With gratitude,
Audri
For freedom of movement, there are two options without stretch-fabric: Clothes that are loose enough to move independently of the body wearing them, and clothes that are fitted enough to follow the body exactly.
It’s funny how on opposite ends of the spectrum the two options are also!
For having me 🥰 it was a fun visit!
Thanks so much Lilja ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Lilja you looked beautifiul as always. This colaboration was a great idea. How lucky the two of you are to share this common interest.
I feel like I'm seeing some historical ladies helping each other make new clothes and I love seeing the caring female friendships we don't always see in/ on film thank you for sharing this 💗. Its balm to the soul . I also am learning lot about patterning too !
Aww this is very kind, thank you!
My conclusion: Get yourself a Lilja if you want to have mid Victorian bodice draped 😂 This video is really useful, thanks ladies ❤
Hahahaha she is masterfully good at draping I must admit ❤️
@@VBirchwood Yes, and she's so good at explaining what is she doing! It was really easy to understand, and I draped once in my life!
That's not only helpful, it's also beautifully relaxing. It's always a joy to see a new video here because they're all so serene and calming.
Thank you! I love editing and cinematography 😊
Lilja is awesome. I highly agree with your recommendation for her channel. This is a great intro to her and her work and a great colab for you both.
Thank you! She’s been on the channel before actually. She presented the episode on “500 Years of Scottish Fashion.”
Glad an outfit-change for the draper is not necessary for a good result :D
Only if desired by the draper! 😂
I mean you COULD technically pin your fabric directly onto your friend. They just might not be your friend for much longer 😂.
Love this video, so cool seeing a bodice block be made for this time period 😍
Lilja's humming is so relatable. I do it too when i'm concentrating. 😊🎶
You are a pair of mightily lovable women, teaching what actually is a basis of quality life - a work/practical teaching of noble charity you perform here, and not just for women - though women are the natural masters of it -- THANK YOU!!
I had to watch this twice and I suspect I'll come back to it again when I'm ready to make something like this. I thoroughly enjoyed seeing you two work together.
Thank you!!
Love the humming. So natural
Loved this! I find it fascinating to watch a pattern being created, and Lilja's humming as she works is quite soothing.
xoxo's Sandie🤗🌷
Well that was fun. Unfortunately I don't have a friend who can do any amount of tailoring and even fewer who can sew who lives near me. I don't trust my daughter, yet, to do any amount of pinning anything to me. Something like this will have to wait until I can get a dress form. This isn't too far off from the old T-shirt and duct tapes method I learned when I first started sewing. Same idea except you take the old T-shirt and wrap duct tape around your body and draw the appropriate seam lines on and then cut the T-shirt and duct tape mold of your body off in the seam lines. I imagine it would be harder to get more accurate darts that day though. I guess this gives me motivation to finish cleaning out my sewing room/ office so I can put a sewing table in and get a dress form. 😉
Have you considered building your own custom dress form? There is a page called bootstrap fashion, where you add your measurements and you get a pattern. Maybe this is something for you :) With this you can use up old fabric you have lying around and don't need to spend hundreds of money :) Or maybe you can get sewing clips to drape together with your daughter :)
Try to find a sewing or quilting group in your area.
The life lesson I'm getting from this is semper ubi sub ubi.
Lol 😂
Always an important lesson.
this is really cool!! I want to do this, but I need to find someone able/willing- I imagine my husband would be willing to try and help but I don't think he would understand the first thing about draping and style lines! lol!
You could always have your husband give it a try and see! Draping can be surprisingly intuitive sometimes. I think it’s often getting started with it which is the scariest part!
@@VBirchwood true, there is no harm in seeing if he'd give it a try! Maybe I will!
Same. The man cannot wrap a present properly even if it's in a square box. I won't put him through neatly wrapping my very not square body
Such an interesting process! I hope you will video making the bodice one day😊
I’ll definitely give it a go one day, but first the Irish bodice 😊
You guys make draping look so much easier than I feared. Now I wonder who I can get to help me...
Lija " There is a lot of noise in my brains and it wants to come out sometime" ME TOO!
Thank you! This was very helpful for me to learn how to make a bodice block, only I do not know what to do with it now. A video on how to use a bodice block would be so helpful!
She makes me nervous with the small pointy scissors 😅 but I feel she really knows what she’s doing! Thanks a lot for sharing 💖
I'm nowhere near ready for this level of sewing, but that was FASCINATING- thank you!
Well done! One suggestion: in original dresses that I’ve examined from this period, the back center piece is generally +/- 2” wide. Most commercial patterns miss the mark on this, unfortunately. It’s easy to use the center back fold as an area to widen to account for size increases, but it doesn’t hold true in actual extant garments
26:35 "Compressiony"
Haha
Actually the interweaving of elastane into cotton and polyester fabrics has been probably the defining advancement in tailoring since the Victorian Era.
I find that the best performing fabrics are a natural fiber with 20% elastane or spandex interwoven.
Your tutorial is how to get form-fits without those additions. Which I believe is still valuable.
This looks like so much fun, for yall that dont have human to help you make a block but you CAN sew you could sew a bootstrap dressform. If you measure in your undergarments then the dressform you make will be the proper shape and size for you
I enjoyed watching it go from flat to expertly shaped!
Thank you both for all the hard work of doing, (videography), and other things I may not be perceiving
Thanks so much Catherine for acknowledging all the hidden work 😊
@@VBirchwood you are welcome!
I know that many folks don't understand how much goes into the pretty & smooth videos which skilled folks make.
❤❤❤ this video is so well produced! Love seeing how clothes were being made!
Thank you!! It was a long edit, but will hopefully help many 😊
What a wonderful collaboration! Lilja‘s channel is so nice as well. I‘ve never seen the whole draping process for a piece, so this was very helpful. Thanks for sharing :)
Outstanding! Love you, love Lilja. So wonderful to see you together. And faaaaabulous content. Really well done, informative, interesting... as always. Thank you both!
OMG! how did I miss this!! I love both of you as creators. I'm so excited to watch this when i get off of work today!
Something that is definitely not historicaly accurate, but I have seen in another video about draping and haven't tested: there's also the possibility of using double-sided tape to avoid pinning your friend, in case that's a concern. ❤
Very interesting and fascinating as always! You make great content! :)
Thank you! ☺️
Création intéressante. Bon duo. Intéractions cool
Merci!!
This is so charming and relaxing to watch… you girls are absolutely precious.
Thank you Diane! Sending so much love ❤️
Id like to see a Victorian blouse like the first one Lilja was wearing at first draped on her figure. Self draped would be even better. I have been working on a moulage to stuff for a dressform and I don't have a helper. I hope when the dressform is done that I can drape my own clothes on it.
She has a video making it on her channel I believe!
Informative and very relaxing
This is such an informative video! I've been thinking to make a victorian style shirtwaist for a while now...I think I'll hopefully get around to it soon, especially if I can fix my bodice block with this tutorial. Thank you so much
Yes actually, I was wondering that 🤔
Wonderful to watch this 😊
Now I just need to figure out how you get a friend that well trained in dressmaking lol
Very informative 😊 I hope there will be as in-depth a video about sewing this bodice mockup together. Especially the darts. I can't find any resources on handsewing darts.😢
I show how I hand sew darts in all of my garment construction videos where I make bodices! 😊
@@VBirchwood oh fantastic! I only handsew at the moment and could not get my head around darts. Thankyou so much for replying.❤️
Absolutely love this!! Now, on the quest to find a historical-sewing friend to help me 😭
So accurate! Thank you!
That’s brilliant!!
Very helpful. Great to see the practicality of method. Thank you!
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This was immensely helpful, especially that sleeve fitting hack. I don’t own a dress form and draping is my favorite method on myself so I gotta try that in the future!
Glad it was so helpful!!
Very cool 😀
So Beautiful 🥰🥰🥰🥰
where do you get your fabrics from?? I always look for good fabrics and stuff but I can never find any good ones 😮💨
It's funny, before the sleeves it looks like the Tshirt fashion for women back in 2k.
Where do you find your patterns that you started with (in general, not referring to this project)?
Depending on the day I might want to be stabbing people with pins 😂
Not as easy as eating pizza, but still pretty simple
Have you ever done the dresses that Keira Knightley and Rosamund Pike whore in Pride and Prejudice? I think they are the most beautiful, simple dresses and coats I have ever seen and I'm a guy who usually doesn't notice dresses and/or find old dresses to overloaded.