Three questions
Sep. 23rd, 2009 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alias_sqbr1: Can everyone who wants to be on the sickblargle filter see this post?
2: Where would one buy large rolls of duct tape cheap? I want to make a duct tape sewing dummy.
3: Where are good places to go for reasonably priced size 16 clothes? I know size 18 is where it starts to get really annoying, but am I going to have problems if I go to Harbour Town? (I've gone up a dress size since I last properly went shopping)
2: Where would one buy large rolls of duct tape cheap? I want to make a duct tape sewing dummy.
3: Where are good places to go for reasonably priced size 16 clothes? I know size 18 is where it starts to get really annoying, but am I going to have problems if I go to Harbour Town? (I've gone up a dress size since I last properly went shopping)
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Date: 2009-09-23 02:04 am (UTC)1 - I passed out while I was being cut out.
2 - The taping process completely mooshed my body around, so the final product wasn't to my size anyway.
3 - It was really sticky, if you stuck pins into it they would come out covered in tape residue. Clothes also stuck to it and got tape reside on them.
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Date: 2009-09-23 03:26 am (UTC)A little bit more on topic, at sqbr. I had the weirdest experience opshopping for clothes recently (at the opshop near the old subiaco markets, if that's relevant). Two size 16 shirts, one too tight for me (my boobs are not that big) and the other mountains to large. Very frustrating. When I got to looking at skirts I just tried on any I liked the look of, because what else are you going to do? *rants*
Bloody different brand sizes. Should be uniform goddamnit.
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Date: 2009-09-23 03:37 am (UTC)Don't get me started on the trend of "vanity sizing" :P I own clothes that fit labelled from size 6-12, and I damn well know that I'm never going to be size 6.
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Date: 2009-09-23 05:09 am (UTC)So I tend to wind up in XL, XXL, because otherwise I'm not sure it'll fit around my breasts. (Which makes the rest of it much too big, but breathing easy is nice.) At a store I can just check how well it fits.
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Date: 2009-09-23 03:56 am (UTC)- masking tape or packing tape is WAY cheaper and does not stretch, giving a better result.
- trying to do a whole torso also had me unable to breathe and a little panicy / short-tempered.
- The whole torso had way too many complex curves to work well as a pattern anyway, so I was really glad I used $2 rolls of masking tape, rather than $10 rolls of cloth tape
I think you might have better luck with making a rough bodice out of some cheap fabric, doing the multiple fit/pin/baste runs and then using the finished product as your pattern for everything else. Having said that, I've been "getting around" to doing that for 12 months or so now.
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Date: 2009-09-23 02:55 am (UTC)My sister did, and ended up with a wrinkled mass... fortunately, she wasn't actually _needing_ it:-)
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Date: 2009-09-24 07:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 02:59 am (UTC)Depending on your definition of reasonably priced, Target usually stocks sufficient size 16 (although it seems to be what they run out of first -- there's always 14 and 18). They were recently having clearance sales over here of old stock and damaged stock (e.g. you might have to sew a button back on), but it was very cheap. I don't know if those are still on (or in Perth).
I only ever bought shoes at Harbour Town, so I don't know about clothing. A lot of what's there is excess stock right?
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Date: 2009-09-24 07:20 am (UTC)I don't think Target Perth is having a sale on right now, but I've subscribed to their mailing list, hopefully I'll get notified since their sales are pretty good.
A lot of what's there is excess stock right?
*nods*
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Date: 2009-09-23 03:00 am (UTC)Also, I'm planning to bring all the clothing I can't/won't wear anymore to Perth in April and you can paw through it if you want. It'll probably be a wee bit more corporate then your normal style though...
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Date: 2009-09-23 07:03 am (UTC)2,3: I have no information for your location.
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Date: 2009-09-23 10:39 am (UTC)Either that or just sew to measurements all the time - I always have a period of try on, pin, sew, try on again when I'm sewing stuff. I can see how that could be draining for you, though - in which case I would imagine that the extra expense for a dressform is probably worth the aggravation you'll save.
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Date: 2009-09-23 10:59 am (UTC)Last time I went to Harbour Town it had a Maggie T...they might start at 18 though, I'm not sure. You shouldn't have too much trouble finding 16s in the other stores though I think.
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