If this works out it could be worth investigating bulk orders from other pattern companies that do other time periods (and possibly a wider range of men’s costumes). Obviously this should be sufficiently far in the future to allow people’s bank accounts to recover.
Cool Hannah, will add that in.
I’ve placed both the Auckland and Wellington orders.
The stuff for everyone in Wellington and Palmy will go to Stephanie and she’ll distribute it.
The patterns for Aucklanders will come to me.
I’ll figure out the costs and let everyone know. My plan regarding shipping is to add the shipping costs for both orders together (US $96), divide by the total number of items ordered (which was 20 in the end), and apportion shipping costs to people according to the number of items they ordered. That way people who just ordered one thing won’t be paying for the additional shipping costs of people who ordered six items. I’m open to any feedback on that plan though, as I know it wasn’t agreed up front or anything. Alternatively we could just divide it evenly, which works out to about US $12 each between the 8 of us. Or some middle way.
[quote=“Ryan Paddy”]I’ll figure out the costs and let everyone know. My plan regarding shipping is to add the shipping costs for both orders together (US $96), divide by the total number of items ordered (which was 20 in the end), and apportion shipping costs to people according to the number of items they ordered.[/quote]That sounds fair. Thanks again for doing the boring logistical part.
I’d agree with that. Thanks.
Ditto.
And while you’re all on the subject of Victorian underwear: the notes for the “Baby got bustle” presentation at NELCO:
EDIT: had a second thought and modified this slightly.
Am just about to send out costs to everyone who went in on the order.
In the end, I’ve decided on just splitting the shipping costs mostly evenly. I did some calculations and it turned out this was much fairer when compared to the cost if everyone had just ordered for themselves, because the shipping cost for 1, 2, 3 or 4 items is exactly the same from this supplier (US $16.95). So everyone is making the same saving on shipping, about 37% off what it would have been. One person who ordered more than 4 items is paying more for shipping, but still getting the about 37% off what the shipping would have been for them.
Most people have saved NZ $8.20 on shipping by doing it this way, compared to if you paid for it individually and had it shipped direct to yourselves. So a saving on shipping, and you don’t need a credit card if someone else does it, but then it doesn’t come direct to you to there is a pickup or delivery cost and some lost time. It’s up to the individuals whether that’s useful in terms of the cost vs. convenience considerations.
I’ve PMed amounts to everyone.
The Wellington package has just arrived. Yay!
I’ll bring packages with me to Confusion for personalised delivery.
The Auckland package has arrived today too.
Let me know Auckland folks when and where you’d like to grab your patterns.
I now have a pretty pattern in my hot little paws. Thanks to Ryan and Steph for organising this
I’ve just opened the frockcoat and waist coat pattern and it truly does look intimidating.
Gonna put all the waistcoat bits away now and hope that creates the illusion of something makeable.
[quote=“Ryan Paddy”]I’ve just opened the frockcoat and waist coat pattern and it truly does look intimidating.
Gonna put all the waistcoat bits away now and hope that creates the illusion of something makeable.[/quote]
Bring it to Chimera, we might be able to help. The instructions are a bit… brief.
Hey - just finished my first bit of clothing from the TV patterns. It’s a cotton petticoat made to one of the basic skirt patterns.
Thoughts:
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The instructions are definitely brief, and assume that the reader knows her or his way around clothing construction. There are a few minor copy errors, which were annoying, and one pattern piece where the different size lines have’t been marked. Since the lines do not correspond in number with the sizes listed on the pattern, I had to make an educated guess on which line to cut along, which went beyond annoying and into user disservice. (It worked out okay.)
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The pieces went together very well. I might in future rotate the back piece so that the curving edge goes into the waist band and the straight edge is the bit that gets hemmed. (I know this sounds really weird, but it will work, trust me, I’ve done it before. ) I’m the same height as the patternmaker made the patterns for, so that made things a little easier.
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I put ruffles around the bottom edge, and two lines of cording to stiffen the edge a little. I don’t know if cording the edge is precisely period to the Victorian era or not. I’ve seen it used for Regency underwear, though. The pattern makes no suggestions for seam finishing - I flat-felled most of them and, on the seam where the waist opening goes, did a simple fold over hem.
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It fits well over the bustle I have.
There may well be pictures to follow, if I can ever get the picture insert function working properly. (It’s been a while. )