u/SouthernIndication82

hi all! i blurred my eyes in these pictures because they are so unflattering but i have to show my face to be diagnosed 😭 forgive me.

i’ve been an eczema and sensitive skin girlie my whole life, but usually my wrists, behind knees, and legs. occasionally i’ll get inflamed eyelids but hydrocortisone and some vaseline usually keeps it in check-ish.

but around june of this year something weird happened where i got little red, burning splotches around my mouth and on a mole on my forehead, accompanied by horrific eyelid swelling and crusting. my derm prescribed me hydrocortisone which i applied for the next 2ish weeks, but my eyelid remained inflamed, and the red splotches traveled everywhere on my face. i got huge splotches on my neck, a big one on my cheek, edges of my nose, a few splotches on my forehead, the ones around my mouth still there and more, my chin, and my nasal labial folds next to my mouth were so so tight and burning.

i eliminated everything including the hydrocortisone. i already use gentle products since im a sensitive skin girlie, but i stripped my regiment down to cetaphil cleanser, vanicream for moisture, unscented baby body wash for my body and hair! no makeup, no sunscreen, just a hat and barely going outside. it stayed the same if not got worse over 1.5 weeks.

I requested an immediate appointment w my derm and she prescribed me Opzelura cream but i am so convinced at this point that it is a fungal or bacterial or yeast issue that i denied the cream and requested to consider seb derm and she said ok, it could be and prescribed me sulfacetamide and sulfur cleanser.

i used that sulfur wash and the next day my symptoms felt and looked better, but i still wanted a second opinion from another derm. so i went to another derm and she said it could be atopic derm or seb derm and said i should use the wash and then she prescribed me desonide for my face and tacrolimus for my eyelid. i was a little hesitant but a second derm telling me that made me reconsider, maybe i needed a different steroid cream.

well, after doing the sulfur wash and then putting the smallest amount of those two steroid creams on my face, i woke up with angry skin again. i am so, so at a loss and it’s so annoying that eczema and bacterial skin stuff have opposing solutions that can trigger the other. the picture attached is from this morning with new inflammation, but in the same old spots. and then i attached a picture of what the flaking on my mole looked like 2 days ago to see if that is seb derm criteria.

has anyone dealt with this? it’s especially upsetting because it’s on my face, that everyone sees, and it hurts. and my husband and i have paused TTC because of this and the topicals. oh and btw, i get a crazy itchy scalp from time to time (but not right now)

why do i have the skin of a baby :(

i know i post a lot in this reddit but it’s because im in the intermediate phase of learning patternmaking and most of my questions don’t have google-able answers at this point 😭

this is in helen joseph armstrong’s chapter on dresses without waist seams. i completely understand what’s going on here with the style line over the apex and the dart equivalents all becoming parts of the seams or closed into the shapes of the bands. but then that dart equivalent that doesn’t have a styleline cross over it— where does it go in the final product? because in the illustration there isn’t that one under bust dart? so where did it go? or did the illustration just forget to include it? it looks like the ease is referring to the other double sided dart. furthermore, wouldn’t it be a little more than 3/8 after you close that side dart into the most central double sided dart? i wonder if this is a typo in the book or if i’m really missing something. and of course this page doesn’t have detailed explanations 😭

thank you!

Hi everyone! I’m a huge collector of vintage, homemade garments while also pattern drafting myself. i was fixing a hole in the pit of this jumpsuit from the 60s when i noticed its complex and different design … out of curiosity and wanting to get better at patterning myself, in desperately trying to figure out how they came about this.

i drew in where there are seams or darts with black to better see. there’s a waist seam, and hip darts. at first i thought the panels were somehow armhole princess seams that combined with a “dolman” all in one style sleeve but then i discovered these small bust darts radiating from the panel, so they clearly don’t go over the apex, and can’t be a princess seam. and also they don’t line up with the hip darts so that’s out of the question now.

i’m curious why there would be an over-shoulder seam/ “all-in-one” sleeve x bodice construction when it seems unnecessary complex? why not just do a set in sleeve here? does it allow for greater mobility? if so, why?

how would you go about drafting and manipulating this from a bodice block? i know that for drop sleeves you transfer some of the dart into the shoulder, but this is not a drop arm at all! and then the dart that gets transferred to the style line? i’m quite confused! the bodice shape must have been quite strange…

let me know! i’m so curious and really struggle with anything that’s not a set in sleeve 😭

hi all, i’m a new designer and would say i have the foundational “rules” down, and so now im faced with a lot of conceptual conundrums when im trying to “break” the rules, like for example:

i know how to draft an a-line shape using slash and spread but i recently closed the waist/hip darts to an empire waist romper, causing it to flare, but then it created way too much volume in the hip area (i’m also shirring the bottom of it for a boomer effect). my question is: can i slash and spread the waist darts closed, but then take away the flare at the bottom? my brain is telling me there’s no reason that’s not possible as long as there’s room for the hips? here are some pictures. i realize that the bloomer effect is going to cause it to mushroom a bit but it was wayyyy to much, and when i got rid of a triangle out of the side seams of the romper, it fit much nicer.

TLDR: do you HAVE to keep the flared bottom once you close the darts for an “a-line” set up as long as there’s room for the hips