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So! Looking about on the internet for hoop steel connectors (shut up, Halloween's only 265 days away, bitches) I found out that I can buy continuous spiral steel in 1/4 inch width, in a ten yard roll (in other words, EXACTLY what I use for corsets) for EIGHT DOLLARS.
Compare that to the fact that I think I don't use short spirals ever, so 10" to 20" spirals range between 60 and 70 cents apiece. Or, to put it another way, I have to buy thirteen and a third 10" spirals to equal the cost of the roll of spiral steel. And each corset takes fourteen steels.
For those of you doing your math along with me, I can get two and a half corsets out of each roll of spiral steel. The half is from the fact that my steels range from 10" to 15 1/2".
I AM SMRT TO THINK OF THIS EARLIER.
Jesus H. Christ on a jumped-up chariot driven pogo stick.
And I will shout this one more time upon deaf ears. Anyone who says that 125" bottom circumference of a hoop skirt (with a distinctly triangular shape) is appropriate for Civil War reenactment had better mean English Civil War. AMERICAN Civil War hoop skirts had a) better be 160" at the bottom and b) BELL SHAPED.
Not to be outdone in inaccuracy, of course, anyone who says that that triangular-shaped 125" bottom circumference hoop skirt is appropriate for Elizabethan reenactment is just goddamn wrong. 120" is the UPPER limit, and most of them were quite a bit smaller. The 1575 sketch of Elizabeth by Hilliard is a caricature of her skirt.
So fie on you, Majestic Velvets. You are idiots.
But all this means that I am getting lots and lots of shiny new toys very soon, and I will need to get my goddamn life organised enough to get to work on that, considering that I counted and I have 11 sewing projects that need finishing, ranging from "I cut it all out and then left it alone for a year" to "This just needs a hem."
Maybe I can continue to bribe myself into finishing things. That'd be AWESOME.
*****
"Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat." - Winston Churchill, who ratted (switched parties) from the Conservatives to the Liberals in 1904, then back to the Conservatives in 1921.
With that slightly ambiguous (and not wholly accurate) statement, I leave you to the song of the day.
If I crash on the couch / can I sleep in my clothes? / I've spent the night dancing / I'm drunk I suppose / If it looks like I'm laughing / I'm really just asking to leave
Compare that to the fact that I think I don't use short spirals ever, so 10" to 20" spirals range between 60 and 70 cents apiece. Or, to put it another way, I have to buy thirteen and a third 10" spirals to equal the cost of the roll of spiral steel. And each corset takes fourteen steels.
For those of you doing your math along with me, I can get two and a half corsets out of each roll of spiral steel. The half is from the fact that my steels range from 10" to 15 1/2".
I AM SMRT TO THINK OF THIS EARLIER.
Jesus H. Christ on a jumped-up chariot driven pogo stick.
And I will shout this one more time upon deaf ears. Anyone who says that 125" bottom circumference of a hoop skirt (with a distinctly triangular shape) is appropriate for Civil War reenactment had better mean English Civil War. AMERICAN Civil War hoop skirts had a) better be 160" at the bottom and b) BELL SHAPED.
Not to be outdone in inaccuracy, of course, anyone who says that that triangular-shaped 125" bottom circumference hoop skirt is appropriate for Elizabethan reenactment is just goddamn wrong. 120" is the UPPER limit, and most of them were quite a bit smaller. The 1575 sketch of Elizabeth by Hilliard is a caricature of her skirt.
So fie on you, Majestic Velvets. You are idiots.
But all this means that I am getting lots and lots of shiny new toys very soon, and I will need to get my goddamn life organised enough to get to work on that, considering that I counted and I have 11 sewing projects that need finishing, ranging from "I cut it all out and then left it alone for a year" to "This just needs a hem."
Maybe I can continue to bribe myself into finishing things. That'd be AWESOME.
*****
"Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat." - Winston Churchill, who ratted (switched parties) from the Conservatives to the Liberals in 1904, then back to the Conservatives in 1921.
With that slightly ambiguous (and not wholly accurate) statement, I leave you to the song of the day.
If I crash on the couch / can I sleep in my clothes? / I've spent the night dancing / I'm drunk I suppose / If it looks like I'm laughing / I'm really just asking to leave
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