/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

Any actual old school coords with this dress? Or I guess any coords in general? Ive never seen it in a coord besides the one today. It just sits there in my closet and I need new inspiration.

>>7625154

1. Velvet's not the easiest fabric to sew, and you're making scallops with it, I hope you're experienced with velvet and can make it look even.
If you're inexperienced, I'd suggest switching to a cotton twill, it's easier to sew, heavy for winter (you wanted a velvet dress, it's for cold weather, right?) and looks decent when photographed.

2. The embroidery will take quite long if you do it by hand, it's easier if you find some trim (gold lace or braid or something) instead.

3. The straps show the gold embroidery/trim stopping abruptly where it meets the bodice, it looks a bit better if you can add bows or something to cover the join so it doesn't look so abrupt
You can put the bows on a pin so that they can be removed from the dress so you can chose whether or not you want to wear them.

4. Regarding the bottom of the dress, it's easier to finish it with a flat hemline of ruffles or ruffled lace like pic related.

5. It's fine to use long chemical lace, but there are some things you need to do:
- don't pick a chemical lace that is too drastic. Something like your picture where the lowest parts of the lace are quite close together and not too long is okay. You don't want to accidentally make a skirt that gives you extra lace legs.
- Match the scallops to the lace; say, for every three long parts of the lace, there should be one scallop, and the highest point of the scallop should be matched directly to the highest part of the lace. Otherwise your design will look messy because your scallop is going at its own rhythmn and the lace is out of sync. The longer the lace you use, the more obvious that it is out of sync.
- Make sure the highest parts of the scallops will not be too short. Since you're using chemical lace, it's see through since it has a lot of holes, make sure you aren't showing too much of your thigh with this dress. You can add a tulle ruffle backing to help with that, but it changes the look of the dress.

Hope that helps.