Well, no in-progress updates or anything! Half a year later, I picked up the project again about two weeks before the Lumieres Summer Pique-nique. I wanted something new to wear, as I’d worn the same pink francaise to two other picnics at the same location already. Also, I got the idea of buying a big
Seriously, why do you costumer folk love her? Nice books, but she made diagrams of clothing worn by mutant pygmies. Im-freakin’-possible to scale up from for real people, unless you enjoy frustration or are some kind of architectural genius. I was seduced into thinking I might use those books for genuine costuming applications (as opposed
I should be doing something productive, but instead, I’m fantasizing about costume … the costume is the zone-bodice 18th-century gown, because some delightful pale blue silk twill I ordered from Fashion Fabrics Club arrived last night (before I went out to dinner for my stepdad’s birthday). It’ll be the perfect contrast for the black embroidered
I’m really hankering to work on 18th-century stuff. No event in the immediate future, just a bunch of fabric calling my name. Specifically, it’s the blue caraco. And I’m wanting to make it a zone bodice now. Would a caraco jacket be zone-fronted? I couldn’t find any examples in Kendra’s real women’s clothing links (actually,
Well, that last idea went in a totally different direction! But in the Garment District after Costume College, I picked up a few yards of a brilliant blue-green silk taffeta that coordinates beautifully with the black embroidered linen. So I *will* make a caraco jacket out of that and a petticoat out of the silk!
Right before I left for Europe, I had finally settled on a caraco jacket made out of this black linen embroidered with blue vines — the seller offered 4 yards literally minutes before the shuttle picked us up for the airport! But I bought it via PayPal in Berlin — ah, the wonders of modern
It’s clear that I’m gonna have to suck it up and buy more fabric. Oh horrors (hah ;-). Robe a l’anglaise or polonaise are the popular ideas, and my crazy notion of using black brocade from The Stash with white eyelet failed to make the cut. I kinda knew I’d have to buy new fabric,
One of the GBACG‘s 2006 events I want to go to is wine tasting in 18th-century costume at a Sonoma winery in June. Currently, I have nothing at all of that era, so I’ll need a new costume. Being planny-pants me and also chronically busy, I want to start planning the costume now, but I