handmade knit dress Hand knitted soft pure merino T-neck sweater dress/D2 Bust 76 Lucille Thièvre ~ Red Hand

The crinoline let a woman get the same bell shaped silhouette with a fraction of the weight, since a single cage of connected steel hoops replaced several petticoats at once

Preferably it should end below the hipline

Censori, an Australian model, arrived wearing a large fur coat

reduce this if you donot want fitting near the waist ) and then stitched the seam near the joining of bodice and the skirt very unscientific way of sewing darts I know but does the work

Maybe the neckline is clean

However, I know for a fact that anything blousey or dropped-waist makes me look frumpilicous, or at the very least, much larger than I actually am