Hello,
Before I begin I would like to quickly say that I am not a sew girl, I am a boyfriend helping a sew girl.
Now thats out of the way, I was hoping someone here could advise.
My girlfriend is at university and for a project she needs to make a dress which sits over the top of a petty coat. (This is for a special effects costume, not fashion.) We have... I guess... technically measured it out but her confidence in my male guestimation is perhaps not as high as I hoped it would be.
The peticoat is a back slanting one. Not the umbrella kind that you see in pantomines. More a sweeping cinderella kinda of thing.
My girlfriend was told to messaure out the front left quater. Then the back left quater.
M girlfriend measured from the front center of the peticoat to the floor. She then measured a quater of the waist and the distance from the hip to the floor.
This gave her the front quater. I hope that makes sense. The idea is she folds the fabric over this quater template to give her the front half of the peticoat skirt.
The problem arose with messuring the back section. With the irregular shape of the peticoat she got stuck.
I stepped in, I meassured the distance from hip to floor. Then the distance from the center of the back to the floor. Finally I measured around the edge at the bottom.
I then grabbed a bit of fabric and made the points aline. I pinned it to the manakin and while it isn't perfect it is pretty damn close.
Can I assume that isn't the technical way to measure out fabric for a peticoat? Is there some sort of formula can be applied to confirm or adapt what we currently have?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
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