/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>10308446

cgl shat all over when it first came out, you might be able to find archives that go that far back. It's mixed with drama that they reverse engineered a bonnet from Vierge Vampur and sold patterns for it.

I'll try to recap the relevant points:

- the design is bad to begin with, front lacing tends to look bar wenchy. The burandos can pull it off, Simplicity can't. You can guess novice seamstresses generally can't either.

- In fact, iirc everything about the styling was shat on, from the shoulder ribbons to the tacky bag to being unable to differentiate between bright colours and pastels (in lolita you definitely want to avoid bright colours.)

- the waistline is too low, which throws the porportion off. Most brand dresses, even the just-waist dresses, have a slightly longer skirt so the skirt looks like the biggest, poofiest thing. Low-waisted jsks have shorter skirts to give it a completely different look. Long jsks have longer skirts to compensate the long torso. This pattern is neither here nor there. It's simply badly proportioned, and like someone said, is unlikely to look good on most people.

- the front neckline is too low as well, so the front makes your body look wider, as the emphasis on where the neckline crosses is across a wider part of your bust

- and someone already mentioned the headbow. There's probably better free patterns out there than trying to make this helicopter blades bow, seriously.

In other words, to "fix" this pattern you'd end up having to redraft most of it so the waistline and neckline hits the right spot, change up the design, ditch the headbow -- seriously, you're better off using almost anything else.

If you're trying to jump from sewing rectangles to sewing people clothing, what I'd suggest is to look for "easy" patterns or "two-hour" patterns. Then graduate up to making a dress, a blouse. After that OnS will be a lot less scary to tackle (OnS is actually much simpler, just the language is Japanese).