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[26th. June, 2009|12:40 am] |
oops. I may have become besotted to the point of obsession in regards to a certain costume.
It may be a Dr Who costume.
It may be historic.
It may be covered in bullion and sequins.
It may have been also used in Madness of King George and The Aristocrats.
I may have just found some fabric for $4/m that will be a good base to cover with some iron on diamates and Heat 'n' Bond (both also bought today) and little silver appliques. As well as all the silver bits and bobs in my stash.
The Girl In the Fireplace is one of my favourite episodes ;) Not surprising as Blink was also written by the same man.
Anyway. I will be wearing this to Geddon and I hope to see some Cybermen over in Melbourne :D And it is a perfect excuse to wear an historic gown to a convention ;) If anyone wishes to join in with the Francaise fun or Whovian 'verse please do let me know ;)
I think I have an idea on how to make the paniers collapsable to lie flat in my suitcase which will be very handy. Said paniers will also work under my aqua francaise :D |
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[25th. June, 2009|12:35 am] |
Nononononononono! Sold just last week :(
Wine velvet surcoat from Elizabeth R GBP1,080
Red velvet german inspired gown, Elizabeth R, GBP960
Sans matching surcoat, white gown Elizabeth R GBP2,280 (you can see the plain fabric of the back of the skirt)
Black with alternating coral and blue ribbon bows gown, Elizabeth R, 2,400
Pale gold satin gown, Elizabeth R 540
Green doublet bodice riding gown, Elizabeth R 960
Henrican/Edwardian white brocade gown, Elizabeth R (Check out the shaped skirt!) 1,080
Blackadder's leather doublet and hose!!!! 14,400
Queenie's gold gown 1,200
Queenie's silver gown 1,080
Percy's orange suede suit (as opposed to his green) 600
Sienna Miller's Stardust dress, 600
Wuv, twu wuv.. Peter Cook's cope from Princess Bride 780
You're bluffing, Chris Sarandon's blue doublet from Princess Bride 480
Dressing gown, Mommie Dearest 720
Omar Sherif black and white cloak, 7,200
Rebel Honor Guard, Star Wars ANH (check out the wonderful seaming in the neck area. So pretty...) 4,800
Lady Cranleigh, Dr Who: Black Orchid. 384. I swar this is the same dress as worn by Reinette in the garden in Girl in the Fireplace.
White Witch, Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, 960.
Catwoman cowl, Pfeiffer, 264
Batman parts, Keaton, 1,500 And these are why I made my suit from PVC. |
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[17th. June, 2009|02:52 pm] |
Links ahoy!
Met museum
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maulleigh/505032950/in/set-72157600038477431/
Human hair wig, Ancient Egypt. The Flickr pool for Egyptian Art and Sculpture.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maulleigh/515102071/in/set-72157600038477431/
Quentin Massys, Portrait of a Woman, 1520.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bittertea/2302827823/
Francaise, orange-coral.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bittertea/2303625312/
Francaise, green-blue.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yerdissedwekissed/2118450907/
Worth court gown
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maulleigh/1022769212/in/set-72157600038477431/
Madame X (really good for showing the fabrics :D)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maulleigh/1752721336/in/set-72157600038477431/
Tea Leaves, 1909 William McGregor Paxton
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maulleigh/1969159486/in/set-72157600038477431/
Portrait of a Woman Francesco Montemezzano
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maulleigh/2794419082/in/set-72157600038477431/
Alexandre Cabanel, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe 1876
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shutterberry/244966993/in/photostream/
Worth gown
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maulleigh/495289665/in/set-72157600038477431/
Cranach, Judith witht he head of Holofernes
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maulleigh/485534995/in/set-72157600038477431/
Study in Black and Greem, John Alexander White.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maulleigh/3347544277/in/set-72157600038477431/
Bernadino Campi, Portrait of a Woman. Love this :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maulleigh/459840386/in/set-72157600038477431/
1892 Mrs Hugh Hammersley, Sargent.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maulleigh/3494684495/in/set-72157600038477431/
Portia, Millais, 1886
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewmtu/3419098535/
Puffy pants armour!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/obsessivephotography/3245725338/
(Beautiful matching of a fine pattern)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/unforth/3223311639/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/unforth/3223311855/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/unforth/3223312033/
French, 1784 - 87, Cotton, metal, silk
http://www.flickr.com/photos/78436618@N00/47316561/
Repose, John White Alexander
http://www.flickr.com/photos/andrewmtu/3419903256/sizes/l/in/set-72157616352520683/
Moonstone necklace (?)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maulleigh/503970277/in/set-72157600038477431/
Isis-Aphrodite, terracotta 2-3C
http://www.flickr.com/photos/elissacorsini/1601332197/
Porcelain Columbine. Love the jacket :)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bayernyc/33670843/
Pink bird dress, Cavalli
http://www.flickr.com/photos/caribb/3422236877/
late 1840s dress Could be early 50s.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daydreampilot/2529450024/in/photostream/
Nice close ups if you scroll along as well. |
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[9th. June, 2009|09:07 pm] |
Hey all, I have been making a lot of posts friends only lately. It has come to light that my audience is rather wider than I intended it to be (which was wide as it was: costume enthusiasts) and thus a few personal details have crept through to more people than anticipated.
So from now my default will be friends only with any completed projects made public, but not events I attend. It's a little saddening but I don't feel comfortable with people keeping track of me through here without my specific knowledge.
I may show some progress pics as well but the default is "friends only" until I learn to keep my big mouth shut about personal details ;) |
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[30th. May, 2009|01:56 am] |
I have the start of my 1830s dress :) Sleeves and skirt cut and half french seamed already. Yes, it has been several years since I bought the fabric and several years since I have wanted to make this dress. I have just finally decided that yes I can make it from the fabric I have and that yes the sleeve patterns I have could be adapted for the style I am after.
And thank you for all your responses you lovely people :) It has been solved and I shall try to make it up to everyone :) |
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[27th. May, 2009|10:57 pm] |
I have a giant embroidery frame :) Well not giant.. 80cm by 50cm kind of big :) Big enough that I'll be able to do my skirt panels for my Worth gown and my applique for the hannibal skirt and the applique for my Han-fu :)
it is made from the remnants of wood trimming from the rebuild of the house and some 1/8" bolts. I'll pad it up in the morning and start work on the Han fu then :) I'll also have a hunt around for my heat n bond and red velvet to see if I can get my hannibal applique shapes worked up. Speaking of which, I do need to hunt for the cale diagram I did.
I'll be drawing my Worth skirt design on the back of the skirt panels and free handing the design with my machine, all the lines where the beads will go. This will give me the advantage of making the fabric even more stable, make the cuts more stable and leave no marks on the front of the dress. Brilliant :) I'll use tailors chalk as it will rub off fairly quickly.
OK while my computor and modem reconnect I shall go doodle and get that sorted.
Oh and bloody flickr. Those pictures were actually about 4000 pixels high so I'll get cropping as you could see the stitches even. Nothing about scaling images in the pages where you upload, and I didn't see any obvious links regarding it. So I'll go hunt out further in their T&C ;)
I'm thinking about that strawberry bink and black velvet dress in harper's Bazaar too. I have some ice blue fabric that could be really pretty made up that way. Ooh or my red cotton sateen.
Right. Big list of fabrics I have and projects I want to do coming up soon. Then I can shed my stash and focus on what I love :)
Connection restored after an hour and some doodling ;) |
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[26th. May, 2009|02:44 pm] |
My Han-fu headdress is looking awesome right now :) It's only in the initial cutting out stages but it is working really nicely :)
I have marked where to cut some wood for an embroidery frame, it should work nicely, though I may look at the other wood offcuts I have to see if thre is something a little sturdier. Just need to cut and drill holes for the bolts now....
Two projects to help oeople with right now so I will mull over my Francaise a little more before commiting. I am debating bwteen 1770s with the self trimming and smocking and a c1700 manteau. I think the fabric suits the later period better but I am still desperate for an early mantua!
Actually I may just further cull out my fabric and see what my current and near future projects are going to be.
And I shall also ruminate a bit further on what I really want to do with costuming ;) |
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[25th. May, 2009|11:46 pm] |
http://www.bildindex.de/bilder/rba_c000143a.jpg
Sigh, seen this in b/w so often, and small colour images but this is lovely for details :)
Erzherzogin Maria Magdalena von Österreich Frans Pourbus (der Jüngere), Faktischer Entstehungsort: Graz & Mantua, 1603/1604, Innsbruck, Schloss Ambras, Habsburger Porträtgalerie, Inv.-Nr. 3385 |
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[23rd. May, 2009|01:17 am] |
Sketch of how the KCI dress could look in a solid pale blue. But I can't quite get the real shot/metallic effect of my fabric :) Nor the full effect of the smocking. It's a honeycomb pattern and then the padding also is really pretty and effective with it. So I will probably do all the smocking first and then start cutting the dress.
This is just to show how sheer the voile I have is. 8.3m of the stuff and I am wavering on just what to make from it :) |
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[22nd. May, 2009|10:59 pm] |
http://www.kci.or.jp/cgi-bin/collection/collection.cgi?lang=e&path=1770/05-007716_a
Sadly the photo does it so little justice, you need the Taschen book to really appreciate how stunning the trimming actually is.
Noooooo!!!! I just realised something:
http://www.kci.or.jp/exhibitions/index_e.html
Japonism in Fashion, New Zealand
Jul. -Oct. 2003, at the Museum of New Zealand, Te papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Dec. 2003-Mar. 2004, at the Christchurch Art Gallery, Te Puna O Waiwhetu, Christfhurch
I know I wanted to go and now I really wish I had. I think "my" worth gown would have been in it :( Well Worth's copy of his own gown but in pale pink rather than pale yellow and with c1893 huge sleeves ;) But the embroidery was the same.
pout.
oooh:
http://www.wacoal.jp/c/kci/2009/02/dresstudyvol552009.html
DRESSTUDY Vol. 55 (Spring 2009) 38p. 500 yen +S&H fee: 200yen
・CONTENTS
LECTURE: Luxury in the Western Culture by.Koichi KABAYAMA
Bourgeois Luxury in Seventeenth-Century Germany:
A Costume Collection in the Hessisches Landesmusum Darmstadt by.Johannes PIETSCH
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[22nd. May, 2009|05:23 pm] |
This is me hanging my head in shame. *shame*
I found my sky blue taffeta at the shop after all and I have bought what was left on the roll. 9m is quite deceptive when it folds up this flat.
So now I get to decide if I do the smocked gown from Kyoto (which is grey and patterned) or a just-barely natural form gown. When the butt was still quite big and round but not up in the small of the back ;)
Also found Art of Dress in the local library, another sheer francaise in there (painting not extant) so that was pretty exciting.
I also noticed in my perusal of Historical fashion in Detail last night that there are a lot of heavy stitches used in the outside garments. All the really fine work seems to be saved for the undies or informal jackets. Linen goods essentially. The stitches aren't messy just really quite... there. the thread is quite heavy and the stitches are quite noticeable even in heavy silks. Yet they also don't look as if they are broadcasting the fact that they are there.
Anyway, I'm going to drape the stand with my taffeta and smile and wonder if I am really mad..... Might sketch the Kyoto dress and see how it will look in this colour after all.
Oh and I might have watched Dangerous Liasons the other day. I always get emotional at the very end. Not when everyone is dying but when the mask has fallen and a scapegoat found. A very deserving scapegoat to be sure, but a scapegoat never the less. |
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[22nd. May, 2009|01:30 pm] |
A few uploads of in progress stuff with hopefully a bit of help for anyone on a budget in terms of fabric allowance ;0
Hanfu "pattern":
One saree cut into rectangles to make best use.
Francaise:
Ironing the pleats.
I may not have actually decided to do this if I hadn't had the option of doing funky stripe matching for the pleats. I can even match them fairly well at the waist.
How I cut the dress from 3.2m of fabric :) It works out pretty close to the art of the tailor pattern, except I cut the bodice front seperately rather than have it drape. Proportionally it's about right (twice the fabric in the back as the front) so very little waste this way, I love it.
Harper's Bazaar:
My quickie colour change for the fashion plate.
Just wrapping my form in the silk and testing how my trim there is. Still need to get the dye. You can see the blue shade it actually is near the bottom of the photo. |
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[21st. May, 2009|10:36 pm] |
I have photos of the red silk with the trim pinned in place. it looks pretty even now :) Needs to be dyed black tough.
The francaise has the pleats pressed nice and crisp and now I can sew it up. Except I don't want to ;) I love patterning and working out the puzzle of best use of fabric and all that but I find the rest boring ;) So that is my personal challenge ;) Pattern like a demon and then be angelic and do the grunt work ;)
Umm yes I may have just enough time to get the dye if I go for a walk now.... |
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[21st. May, 2009|12:16 am] |
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maiac/2536803339/
Yellow gown, Ontario Museum, 1700s
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sersie/105736756/in/set-72057594071943160/
Catehrine the Great, coronation gown
http://www.flickr.com/photos/41188800@N00/201732694/
blue and white gown, Hobart Museum, mid 1870s
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miss_sonia/3052728694/
One of my favs from the V&A. I drooled over photos of this and then finally saw it myself in 01. Sigh
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miss_sonia/3052734014/
V&S huge court gown (the other one, not crimson)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miss_sonia/3052730300/
Sigh. I did not see this one. 1890s gown in cream with black lace banding.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rubykhan/2248129616/in/pool-fashionexhibitions
Met, white gowns.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourfavoritemartian/130989356/in/set-72057594109000398/
Stays, i think I may have linked to these before....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47904103@N00/2871342942/in/pool-fashionexhibitions
V&A, i think this is patterned in PoF...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kishimoto/1972932677/
1930s gowns
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mharrsch/230134807/
Marie of Romania's coronation gown
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29053452@N08/3030145625/
Dress worn by Marie Antoinette apparently.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/reabhecc/3078887368/
Silk anglaise (love the ruched cuffs)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30432726@N05/2853071252/in/set-72157607264971777/
Nordiska Museet, yellow silk ensemble
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourfavoritemartian/51411541/
Francaise, Wadworth Atheneum
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourfavoritemartian/51333964/
Harpists, ditto
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yourfavoritemartian/51330787/
Dramatic mid/late 20thC
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mharrsch/770439/
Royal British Columbia, c1900 gown
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22581036@N02/2198914005/in/pool-18thcenturyfashion
Chinese silk.. round gown?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/estherase/25726898/
V&A Edwardian
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23045224@N04/3497618313/
Scoolton Manor House, 1890s.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mharrsch/25484694/
University of Utah, 1905 gown
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zopeuse/427912900/
Musee des Tissus et des art Decoratifs, Anglaise?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielgreene/332777474/
1880s, Phoenix Art Museum
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johanni/391035831/
Sofia Magdalena's wedding dress, Livrustkammaren
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rooruu/136901503/
Anglaise? Powerhouse Museum
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rooruu/136901496/
1820s dress (huge lovely leaves), Powerhpuse Museum, Sydney
http://www.flickr.com/photos/miss_sonia/212953871/
Canberra Museum, 1870s gown
http://www.flickr.com/photos/twiga_swala/2565323877/
Wedding gown of Sofia of Spain
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathieu-bourgie/2559459279/
Musee mcCord, 1860s and 70s gowns
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36392891@N00/3512061100/
Purple velvet, first ladies gowns exhibit
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36392891@N00/3512060728/
Super low back 1900s, ditto |
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[20th. May, 2009|11:18 pm] |
Sigh.
Money spent, things bought:
gold paint (for lots of funky accessories, possibly even my Carlotta Hannibal costume at last?)
pins (for pinning)
silver machine thread (for the Saya y ropa)
nuts and bolts (to make a large embroidery frame)
florintine (eaten)
25m blue rayon lace (for my 1876 gown.)
Yep, I finally found a wide rayon lace suitable for my 1876 dress. that harper's Bazaar fashion plate I have adored since I was a teenager and that I will make from red silk ;)
Now to make sure I do indeed have enough.
Pinned in place... seems to be enough for what I want to do :) Now to get some black dye and boil it all to the right colour. |
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