Purple taties!
Yum! Urenika heritage potatoes. Waxy skin, fluffy when baked also no oil and they form a crispy…
ALL THE PATTERNS!!!
So many… oy! But I’m about to organise them by type to make it easier to show people in person how they work and are freaking easy compare to other styles
And then Katherine posts about the Robe de Style:
I have a whole lot of patterns
So I’m about to go through them and find the most helpful
I have a few tailor manuals, not many but a few from the the period
Thinking of renaming my blog The Plain Jane Try Hard Costume Diaries. .
I mean it’s how I’m seen
So… I could then have fun with vidcasts of me in no make up and dust every where and talk about how much I do not want to get out of my bathrobe and put on safety gear. And all my messy workspace will be seen in all its glory. How…
Robe de cour wins!
Over the mantua for the silver fabric I mean
Why? Because even with the huge hoops this is a much more sensible costume for pack down.
The bodice is separate.It can go on a padded hanger or in a…
Orange Court Dress, May 1798
Court Dress, May 1798 | CandiceHern.com.
It says “buff” but it’s ORANGE!!!!
Also, I realised i have three patterns of early mantua. I’m really fighting the urge to make a c1700 mantua from the silver…. I should make one from my taffeta instead…. gah!!!!
J…
Ouch
Started tired and ended now with an enflamed jaw. Currently my lower jaw won’t “fit” my upper which is leading to more pain and more tension on jaw muscles.
That said, I have two cool books from the library (I went in person to pay my ILL fee and then saw…
lj testing again…
got a “No PID” error for my last post.
JOIN ME IN THE SILVER FROCKNESS!
I may have “claimed” one silver frock, but there really are so many, and though my previous entry didn’t show it well the Russian silver gowns are amazing! I haven’t even started looking for portraits of silver frocks!
I’m looking at importing my lj posts over here (fingers crossed! They are all text with no images embedded so it shouldn’t kill my website) but I have also updated my Reiette and random silver frock posts to all have the same tag as here (silver court gown- my Spanish gown is nicknamed Silly Spanish Gown but is tagged spanish, saya and similar).
Also digging through my old links, I have found some interesting techniques 🙂 Like this: http://www.monumente-online.de/12/02/streiflichter/Papiermache.php
Anyway, I deliberately chose a gown I could change if there was someone who desperately wanted to do that specific one. so let me know and I can find out which one I can swap to 🙂 I do though prefer the crazy flat front of the Swedish gowns over the pleated Russian, which is odd as I usually prefer draping. But seriously look at these beauties up there! Plain silver embroidered with a gold repeat, plain silver with heavy silver foliate ground up design, plain silver with gold ribbon work all over it and I think the very last one is scrolling silver on silver.
I have also linked in posts about Reinette and any other silver or silver and white gown from this time. I felt in love/hate with the Rocket dress when I first read Hollywood and History many decades ago (nice section there actually on Star Wars 😉 ) because I could find them and they are all part of the long history of wanting a Big Ass Silver gown. From the 18thC. I mean the silver tissue gown (1660s) was probably the first gown where I understood what cloth of gold/silver actually meant.. and I just have a thing for silver gowns anyway…
More of the court gowns…
Sophi Magdelena’s kröningsklänning
And Fredrika’s bodice!
And a new one, not silver but… Sofia Albertina
via Kringla.
no seriously… Stop me now.
And…
FIDM’s yellow court bodice and xrayed
Sigh,…