Need some help please

[autumnlight]

I'm trying to find a pattern that I could make a dress with a bodice similar to this:
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Here's another one, slightly different:
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The patterns I currently have at home are the two by Sense and Sensibility. I've made the drawstring gown in the ELC package a couple of times but I've never done up their original Regency gown pattern.
And I ordered the Period Impressions 1812 bib front gown so I should have that in a day or two.

Does anyone think any of these patterns might work at all? Or do you suggest a different one?

I'm not to the point of scaling up patterns from books or drafting my own, yet, I hope someday to be able to do that.

[Modified post to make image links work - SJ]

[dawnluckham]

The second fashion plate just looks like a V neck to me with a filler piece. You could cut any bodice that fits you smoothly into a V.

The “bibb” in the bibb-front gown can be modified in any way you wish. There are hundreds of examples of extent bibb-front gowns with differently seamed and shaped bibs. I suggest you simply play with fabric until you get the look you want. The bib piece is just a rectangle that can be scrunched, seamed, ruffled, - whatever you wish.

[autumnlight]

Thank you for the reply! Once I get my stays done, I'll play around with the patterns I've got and see what I come up with.

Oh, I see my links didn't work, I'm sorry, thank you to whoever fixed them for me.

[Mme de Beaufort]

That would be moi. I'm sorry if it seems intrusive... they didn't necessarily *not* work, but the URL only comes up as a partial because of the @ sign in it. People would have to cut and paste the whole thing in a fresh browser or tab, which isn't a huge deal--but it was just as easy to find the image URL and post those to make a direct clickable link.

--Steph

[autumnlight]

Oh no, it wasn't intrusive at all.