We’ve been invited to a party! Yay! We aren’t as antisocial as I had imagined!
The party is an anniversary/renewal of wedding vows event with a 1920s Murder Mystery theme. We’re supposed to dress in costume and play a part, but I don’t know what to wear! If you google 1920s costume, you end up with all these cutesy Flapper outfits that are darling! Fringe…beads…seaquins with spaghetti straps and a drop waist. I can’t pull that off. It seems the classic Flapper figure is something of a waifish silhouette. Waifish would be the absolute last word anyone would use to describe me. So, what’s going to be flattering and in costume for the 20s for a short, curvy me?
Hmmm, descisions…descisions. I liked the black fringe number, but size 16-22? Way too big. My dress size is a 12 (sometimes a 14 depending on the way the bust is cut), and I saw a couple on that site that might work, but I hate shopping online for clothing/costumes because I’m so hard to fit. I was born to wear a corset…gimme Elizabethan, Renaissance, Victorian, Civil War Era…I could even manage Edwardian or heck, even old west saloon costume, but something with as little foundation as a unwaisted slip-dress is scary for me :eek:
Oh well, I have a month and a half to shop or sew. I am keeping the tiara idea, though
Busty dames were outta luck in the '20s. Almost no one looked good in “flapper clothes.” You had to be tall and thin and have a perfect heart-shaped face (anyone else looked like Mr. Ed in those cloche hats).
Yep, elastic corsets and bust-binders were in, and that’s the decade that the “starve yourself to look like a pre-teen boy” crap got started, that still plagues us to this day.
Simplicity has a pattern for the Queen Latifah dress that looks good on the envelope. I can’t testify for the quality of it, as I haven’t had the guts to open up the envelope and lay the pieces out in the store, as I’ve seen some people do. (It strikes me as gauche somehow.)
I’d like to make it some day, though, if I ever have a reason to. Have to slog through the Civil War ballgown first.
I’ll second that gauche and raise you a how-in-the-heck do they get it all back in that envelope?
Look like a good pattern, and a little less scandalous than the dress in the movie. I’ve been pretty happy with Simplicity’s new “period” costumes. Remember what they used to try and shove off on us as “renaissance maiden”? Ugh.
I betcha you could make the whole Mama outfit in less time than a single farthingale!
Oh! I like that pattern! I’ve got to get myself one of those feather fans!
I suppose this is a good time to get out that new sewing machine my aunt gave me for Christmas and get busy.
