Just to show that I can in fact take a hint, I finally got motivated to wear my new petticoat bodies to fighter practice and take a few mug shots next to the gym.
Now for me to nitpick everything wrong with it:
The petticoat ended too big around the waist so it's sagging a bit, but it only needs a a few extra eyelets to pick up the slack. Doing all of the eyelets to match the ones on the tabs is looking mighty tempting, just for the potential for cute little bows all around the waist.
Also, because of the eleventh hour necessity to split it up the back, the bottom of the backmost tabs are taking way too much strain and so can't lace well. It's kind of my own fault for having such a dramatic bit of shaping at the side back seam, but it doesn't effect the overall look too much.
Those issues aside, I am tickled to death with how it turned out. It is exactly what I envisioned when I put the two fabrics together. I wore it for the better part of the afternoon and there were not any screaming comfort issues.
Also, at two years after I'd finished my lovely embroidered coif, I finally have an excuse to wear it.
As much as I love the attack laurel coif patterns, I have to admit that they are really big on me. My hair's long but fine, so my only hope for tying it on was to do two braids over the top of my head to give the cord something to pull against. It worked pretty well while the knot in the cord held, but it was too slippery (it's my silk tablet woven hairtie) to stay in long-term, and after a few attempts and the pictures I just stopped bothering with it.
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