Lining Question

Hello All!

I am making a very basic straight skirt with a matching cardigan style
jacket. The fabric is a wool, actually it's some men's suiting fabric I
bought a couple years ago to make a suit for my husband. The project never
materialized, no pun intended, so now the fabric is mine. I will line the
jacket, but the question I have is to line or not to line the skirt. Since
I always wear a slip is it necessary to line the skirt? Thanks for you
opinions.

Liz

"Ward" wrote:

Hello All!

I am making a very basic straight skirt with a matching cardigan style
jacket. The fabric is a wool, actually it's some men's suiting fabric I
bought a couple years ago to make a suit for my husband. The project never
materialized, no pun intended, so now the fabric is mine. I will line the
jacket, but the question I have is to line or not to line the skirt. Since
I always wear a slip is it necessary to line the skirt? Thanks for you
opinions.

I'd line it, if only because the lining will add some strength to the
garment, and make it less likely to wrinkle. I don't think I've ever
seen a wool straight skirt that wasn't lined.

--
Jenn Ridley :

Ward wrote:
Hello All!

I am making a very basic straight skirt with a matching cardigan style
jacket. The fabric is a wool, actually it's some men's suiting fabric I
bought a couple years ago to make a suit for my husband. The project never
materialized, no pun intended, so now the fabric is mine. I will line the
jacket, but the question I have is to line or not to line the skirt. Since
I always wear a slip is it necessary to line the skirt? Thanks for you
opinions.

I would line the skirt. If you were to make up two skirts, one lined and
one not, you would pick the lined one as nicer, just from looks.

liz young

Ward wrote:

Hello All!

I am making a very basic straight skirt with a matching cardigan style
jacket. The fabric is a wool, actually it's some men's suiting fabric I
bought a couple years ago to make a suit for my husband. The project never
materialized, no pun intended, so now the fabric is mine. I will line the
jacket, but the question I have is to line or not to line the skirt. Since
I always wear a slip is it necessary to line the skirt? Thanks for you
opinions.

Liz


It would be better to do so. It will help to stop the skirt 'seating' -
getting baggy and stretched in the bum area when you sit. It also helps
the fabric last longer and makes the skirt hang better.

--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

Line the skirt. You can wear or forego the slip, but I think that the skirt
will sit and wear (both in hang and durability!) better with the lining
attached.
Cynthia
"Ward" wrote in message
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Hello All!

I am making a very basic straight skirt with a matching cardigan style
jacket. The fabric is a wool, actually it's some men's suiting fabric I
bought a couple years ago to make a suit for my husband. The project never
materialized, no pun intended, so now the fabric is mine. I will line the
jacket, but the question I have is to line or not to line the skirt.
Since
I always wear a slip is it necessary to line the skirt? Thanks for you
opinions.

Liz

"Kay Lancaster" wrote in message
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jacket, but the question I have is to line or not to line the skirt.
Since
I always wear a slip is it necessary to line the skirt? Thanks for you

Necessary, no. But it will often hang better, wrinkle less and wear
longer
with a lining.

Hello and thank you all for your help. OK, lining it is. I'm using some
"Hang Loose" lining from my stash to line the jacket. There is plenty
leftover to line the skirt. Do you think the Hang Loose lining will be OK
or should I buy something else? I will hem the lining shorter then the
skirt and attach it to the seams with a shank of thread. I have a RTW lined
wool skirt in my closet and that's how the lining is attached. Opinions ...
is there a better way?

Liz

Ward wrote:

"Kay Lancaster" wrote in message
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jacket, but the question I have is to line or not to line the skirt.
Since
I always wear a slip is it necessary to line the skirt? Thanks for you

Necessary, no. But it will often hang better, wrinkle less and wear
longer
with a lining.


Hello and thank you all for your help. OK, lining it is. I'm using some
"Hang Loose" lining from my stash to line the jacket. There is plenty
leftover to line the skirt. Do you think the Hang Loose lining will be OK
or should I buy something else? I will hem the lining shorter then the
skirt and attach it to the seams with a shank of thread. I have a RTW lined
wool skirt in my closet and that's how the lining is attached. Opinions ...
is there a better way?

Liz


I don't know that brand or type of lining. Try it and see. The nice
thing abiout a lining is that if for some reason it doesn't work, it
isn't all that hard to replace it!

That's the classic way to do a skirt lining! Do it that way. Those
thread shanks are called French Tacks, and on a hand finished garment
thay should be worked in buttonhole stitch over several threads.

--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 08:40:55 -0400, Ward wrote:

Hello and thank you all for your help. OK, lining it is. I'm using some
"Hang Loose" lining from my stash to line the jacket. There is plenty
leftover to line the skirt. Do you think the Hang Loose lining will be OK
or should I buy something else? I will hem the lining shorter then the
skirt and attach it to the seams with a shank of thread. I have a RTW lined
wool skirt in my closet and that's how the lining is attached. Opinions ...
is there a better way?

Classic method for doing this. "Hang loose", iirc, is a decent grade of
antistatic poly. You might also want to consider underlining it with
silk organza (cut the organza exactly like the wool, tack them together
at the edges, and sew as if the wool and organza were one fabric). This also
improves drape and wrinkle resistance. And then you line the underlined
skirt. The organza adds little weight but makes the project look very
upscale. If you can find Threads magazine, #97, (Oct/Nov 2001), there
are comparison photos of two skirts, one underlined, one not.

I'm not familiar with hand-worked buttonholes. At the bridal shop where I
once worked doing alterations I was taught to use a sort of crochet stitch
to make those tacks, with 3 threads (doubled) on the needle. Would that be
the same thing?

Linda



"Kate Dicey" wrote in message
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Those thread shanks are called French Tacks, and on a hand finished
garment thay should be worked in buttonhole stitch over several threads.

--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!

"Kay Lancaster" wrote in message
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On Thu, 25 Aug 2005 08:40:55 -0400, Ward wrote:

Hello and thank you all for your help. OK, lining it is. I'm using
some
"Hang Loose" lining from my stash to line the jacket. There is plenty
leftover to line the skirt. Do you think the Hang Loose lining will be
OK
or should I buy something else? I will hem the lining shorter then the
skirt and attach it to the seams with a shank of thread. I have a RTW
lined
wool skirt in my closet and that's how the lining is attached. Opinions
...
is there a better way?

Classic method for doing this. "Hang loose", iirc, is a decent grade of
antistatic poly. You might also want to consider underlining it with
silk organza (cut the organza exactly like the wool, tack them together
at the edges, and sew as if the wool and organza were one fabric). This
also
improves drape and wrinkle resistance. And then you line the underlined
skirt. The organza adds little weight but makes the project look very
upscale. If you can find Threads magazine, #97, (Oct/Nov 2001), there
are comparison photos of two skirts, one underlined, one not.

Thanks Kay, I'll check Theads and do the lining that way. I do want it to
look good.

Liz