Fit issues. Again.
Oct. 12th, 2022 08:04 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
totchipandaBook book book! I'm so happy it came <3 I spied another adjustment I can try to get better fit through the thigh area, and also reread the pages on belly shapes again. There was a note about including the lower part of your belly if it hangs a little lower (as mine does) when taking the hip measurement, and I know I had seen that online somewhere before but damned if I could find it again! so I will revisit the measurements too.
Not that it well help with this particular pattern. Even though the pattern is numbered to 32, it's still straight sizing. I used a 20 as the base pattern which was mostly OK through the hip and then very little else. (But if we switch over to plus sizing, I'd needed a drafted 12, which pretty much no plus pattern ever comes in, because the plus 14 is almost the same size as a straight 20)
Y'all. This is why I hated sewing for so long. Nothing ever just FITS and adjustments were never taught to me. The only kind of fitting advice we got was to go down one size on the pattern envelope. And I was thinking about maybe this was why I was so comfortable in the wedding dress, perhaps the straps were a little snug (my fault) but not so tight that I was aware of them most of the day, and beyond that everything just fit and stayed where it was supposed to and nothing shifted or pulled or fell down and it was wonderful.
Also on my to-fit list: breast support. I've never had a bra that sat against my chest like they're apparently supposed to (in modern bras, anyway). My current batch are definitely too small, they're soft (no wires) and collapsing at the sides and also too tight in the bad. But do I want to spend the time and $$ on A: commercial bras or B: making my own (which will cost about the same in terms of material, and much more in time) or C: fuck it all and get a binder (and again, do I want to drop the $$ on something that might fit or might be uncomfortable, or making my own, in which case where do I start)
Bodies. Why.
Not that it well help with this particular pattern. Even though the pattern is numbered to 32, it's still straight sizing. I used a 20 as the base pattern which was mostly OK through the hip and then very little else. (But if we switch over to plus sizing, I'd needed a drafted 12, which pretty much no plus pattern ever comes in, because the plus 14 is almost the same size as a straight 20)
Y'all. This is why I hated sewing for so long. Nothing ever just FITS and adjustments were never taught to me. The only kind of fitting advice we got was to go down one size on the pattern envelope. And I was thinking about maybe this was why I was so comfortable in the wedding dress, perhaps the straps were a little snug (my fault) but not so tight that I was aware of them most of the day, and beyond that everything just fit and stayed where it was supposed to and nothing shifted or pulled or fell down and it was wonderful.
Also on my to-fit list: breast support. I've never had a bra that sat against my chest like they're apparently supposed to (in modern bras, anyway). My current batch are definitely too small, they're soft (no wires) and collapsing at the sides and also too tight in the bad. But do I want to spend the time and $$ on A: commercial bras or B: making my own (which will cost about the same in terms of material, and much more in time) or C: fuck it all and get a binder (and again, do I want to drop the $$ on something that might fit or might be uncomfortable, or making my own, in which case where do I start)
Bodies. Why.
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