you brought it on yourself miss twiddle

In the last week, I did get my act together and finish two projects. So now I have a nice dress for late summer, and something to wear once it gets colder.

First, the dress that I've been haphazardly fiddling with for at least a year. The bodice is based on a 17th century corset pattern, the skirt is made of out of a curtain that I scavenged from my college dorm, and the yoke, which is the part I'm most proud of, was done completely in an ad hoc manner with the scraps from the skirt:

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The other, embarrassing as it is to admit, was inspired by Star Trek. But not like that! Earlier this summer I watched the first two-ish seasons of DS9, which has extremely spiffy costumes on a lot of the extras. Anyway, there is one episode where one particular lady walks through the screen all the time wearing a fabulous bright-blue jumper with cut outs on the top. I watched the episode rather a lot of times in order to get screencaps (reference pics here and here). My version is in purple corduroy (I swear that it is purple and not brown! Everyone seems to think my cloth was brown.), and is a bit longer and flared, since I am planning to wear it in real life and not on a spandex happy space station!

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But the question remains: is watching Star Trek for the costumes more or less dorky than watching it to improve one's Klingon?

I'm working on my dress again. It's going to be gorgeous, if I can avoid screwing up the pleats. Most of the front is pleated, and about half of that has the pleats sewn down, but I don't know how I am going to get the skirt attached to the bodice, and make it line up sewing right sides together. And then the back, which requires more fudging, I don't even want to think about. Oy.