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Sini Tuulia (sinituulia@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Tuesday, 02-Jun-2026 07:11:55 JST Sini Tuulia

For morale reasons, please admire these sleeves that I intensively pattern matched when I made this 1780s or so Redingote. It was slow but relatively easy and very very satisfying because I did all of it by hand! Photo of the whole thing attached to show just how very little it's even seen, and yet!
#Sewing #HistoricalFashion #HandSewing
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1. A close up photo of two sleeves laid out on a desk. They're two part sleeves, form fitting, and made out of a reddish brown and a darker brown striped cotton. The cuffs and sleeves have the stripe going opposite ways for contrast, and the stripes along the seams match beautifully. Beautifully! All of the way as is visible in the photo, the stripes form absolutely perfect matching chevrons despite the not at all identical curves. There are also ten hand sewn buttonholes and ten fabric covered buttons on the cuffs, very decorative though not quite as impeccable as the stripe matching, which looks almost fake it's so precise, barely a millimetre off here or there along dozens of matching points.
  https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/675/506/127/462/805/original/1f01bbbae286065c.jpg
2. A starkly lit photo of Sini wearing the finished thing the sleeves are part of, which is an 18th century riding ensemble or gown. A slightly shorter petticoat of the same striped fabric and the coat-inspired dress part, which has a very low open neck filled out with an ivory with yellow flowers fichu, wide mantled collars, six pairs of buttons down the front, and long fitting sleeves. The hips are very very padded and wide, the waist looking small and conical in comparison. With the pale gray curly wig half down and half up, red lip, cheeks and powdered face, it's a reasonable approximation of a fashionable lady from the time, though a bit plain and dark. More like a witch pretending to be a lady.
  https://eldritchcafe.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/675/505/971/851/377/original/f9933cb153d1c691.jpg

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