Third Week (11-13 April) After-Easter Costume Store Re-focus Review

Wednesday, 11 April: Costume Store Re-focus
I was assigned to work on the 18th century breeches as my second piece for the costume store, which will mostly look like this when finished (except in a thick brown wool):

Front of breeches

Back of breeches

Front of breeches detail

Because of being made of wool they will be more like peasant or tanner breeches with cheaper buttons than the example above. The measurements I was given were 34" waist and 40" hip. For the week we were to cut and mark tack the pieces ready to go for next week, and to have a 2.5cm seam everywhere except center back which has a 5cm seam at the waist graduated down to 2.5cm at the crotch; the cut pieces are pictured below (I cut the top fabric on Friday, 13 April because I went home ill Weds, missing the Breathe Together taster evening):

 We set up a late night study Tuesday, 17 April, for anyone who needs to finish their shirts, so I will be going in to finish my collar and buttons, and Dexter decided from now on, on Wednesdays he will be finishing at 3 to give us space to solve problems for ourselves and develop a more critical eye, being able to decide for ourselves whether the piece is good enough or if it should be re-done.

I will go more into detail about the individual pieces we are making once we have started making prototypes, but am feeling a lot more excited about the project now that we have finished designs!