Here's the blue fabric I'm going to make into a short gown for my 1806 female working class persona. It's lightweight and the warp stripes are (by thread numbers): *2 white, 2 light blue, 1 dark blue, 2 light blue* repeat at about 8 per inch/2.5cm. It's a greyer blue than this photo would suggest.
The hobbit bodice - it fitted reasonably well in the back, apart from the shoulder straps being 3.5-4cm too long (overall not just in the back shoulder strap). My torso is short between underarm and shoulder so I'm not all surprised by this. I was thinking of moving the shoulder seam towards the back as in historical clothing so marked a line on the toile, but decided against it as the screencaps of women's clothing don't have that.
With the front, the central panel seamline is drawn on the reverse so you can't see it in the mockup. I'm going to see if taking half the underbust dart from that seamline and the other half from the side seam sits ok, but first I'm going to rotate the underarm dart to the underbust.
As I anticipate wearing this to the next couple of movies as well as this June's Supanova I want to do a reasonably good job of it. I'll do a 2nd mockup to see if my changes work effectively, and I'll cut the back & side front pieces on the bias just to see how that works.
Oh and I nearly forgot that I got the dye for Catelyn tonight. I guestimate that I'd need 2 bottles or 4 packets of RIT. I'd checked my dye-stash on Sunday night and amongst them is a dark green and a grey but there wasn't a teal which I thought was in there. So once I discovered the bottles would cost $38 for 2, well I balked at that. So instead I got 1 bottle and a packet of dark blue - on the theory that dark blue+dark green+teal+grey would hopefully get me a dark teal
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