Not every girl is perfectly proportioned, myself included. Luckily, very few people ever get to see what’s going on underneath the layers of clothing we use to camouflage our imperfections.
Felicity is particularly troubled by a long torso and very short legs. So before I could begin sewing her anything, I needed to calculate where we’re going to pretend her waist and knees are. I based my numbers on the patent diagram for Huret dolls (contained in the Theimer’s lovely book). Using the measurements I found there, and the magical math formula found HERE, I could determine where Felicity’s knees should be. And then, using the same formula and that wonderful diagram of skirt lengths by age, I could calculate how long her finished skirts will be.
As you can see, her poor drawers are going to extend just barely beyond the nether regions they’re meant to cover. So be it.
Who will ever know?