I overlaid the Camp Shirt Pattern B5047 with the Jacket pattern B5053 to experiment with CF and CB darts to add some shape to this open style jacket with scarf collar (see my earlier post for original shaping of jacket). My initial impression is that the back darts are a definite plus for this jacket. What do you think?
However, the front darts I tried here definitely need more work. The darts create an unattactive "poofy" effect at the lower edge below the dart. Since I don't want to remove the hem to take the dart all the way to the hemline I am going to reshape the dart, narrowing the dart significantly at the lower end. I do like the shaping it provides at the top of the dart. So, by tomorrow afternoon hopefully I will have a photo showing a smoother CF with an improved CF dart here.
This is one reason why we have seam rippers right?
4 comments:
I like the idea of the darts for shaping. Have you considered two smaller darts or even tucks that just take in the waist circumference? Just throwing out ideas - feel free to nix them!
Yes, that is something to consider. I will play around with that today and see what I come up with. Thanks for the ideas.
agreed, the back darts work and the front don't.
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I would continue to work with the shaping, as I think the jacket does benefit, but it looks as if those front darts are taking too large a bite right now.
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