Hi all,
(I hope) I am ready to try making a bodice sloper, using the instructions from the closet historian However, the patterns she recommends are pretty much unavailable, only a couple of small sizes, for which i would have to pay an enormous amount of shipping costs, as i live in Europe.
Do you have or use a modern pattern that would be really suitable as a bodice sloper? I would be looking for something like size 14-20
She also has a video on how to make something from scratch, but she advices against it and i’m not yet a very experienced sewer, so i trust her judgement.
As an aside, am i paranoid in thinking these companies retracted these shell patterns, because they don’t want to risk loosing their audience?
Oh, thank you! Very helpful and i feel like this expands my options a lot! Particularly because i am in Europe and the naming of certain fabrics does not always match what is mentioned in other parts of the world. For instance muslin to us is an absorbent fabric with squares on it, which we used for cloth diapers, but in videos i see a very different type of fabric, almost like a lightweight canvas or something. I remember that dart video, i watched it quite a long time ago, but it was so useful to see how she manipulated a piece of paper to show the effect of darts. Back then, i was a complete novice and had no idea what darts were and what they were meant to do