I took these pics for a facebook last night so I thought I’d share them here, too, and expound on my post.
Several years ago I was obsessed with the different variations of Disney Princess costumes at the parks. I collected photos from all the parks, the parades/stage show/meet-and-greet variations… I had a huge collection saved on my computer.
Somewhere during that brief obsession I came across a few photos where, usually during a spin or dancing, the waistband of the skirt was showing, and could see an eye, as in a hook-and-eye. Last night I went looking for one of these examples and I couldn’t find the exact one I was thinking of (I’ve long since deleted most of that collection!), but I did find this one, which does still show the eye:
(I don’t know whose photo this was either, or where I saved it from… never meant to need to post or share it. If it’s yours, 1000 apologies, let me know so I credit)
I thought, well that’s a good idea for keeping big skirts in place, I’m going to use that.
So basically this was just a long, drawn out way of saying I put hook-and-eyes on my bodice interior/waistband of most of my princess costumes:
It can be a little tricky to get them placed right, and yes they can come undone (as seen in the Disney photo above), but it really does help keep the skirts in place while moving, keeps them from shifting up or down or sideways while walking and you’ll always know you have it on right if the hooks and eyes are lined up. (I once wore my first Belle ballgown skirt completely sideways for a photoshoot. So it does happen, haha.)
I find it more useful for lighter weight skirts like my recent Tightrope Walker, which is just one layer of a thin satin – something like that has the potential to be a little squirrely and slippery. For heavier things like my 2nd Belle ballgown, it’s not as useful because that thing generally isn’t moving anywhere, so I don’t have them on it.
So that’s my hook-and-eye on the bodice post which could’ve been 2 sentences but I somehow got it to 373 words.