Those you know you are in the SCA when "stories" from the MR

Your parents like your persona name better than the one they gave you.

I'm very guilty of this one. :-) ( Guilty! )

As for my own, ya know you are in the SCA whens:

- When you pack for one of the big wars, load up the car, and notice that, finally, your house looks clean
- you see people and think "oh, they'd look gorgeous in a 10th c Viking!" and mean it. (I think I've convinced our office manager to go Viking at the Renn Fest. She's all about plain clothing with tons of gold and stones so what is better for her than Viking?)
- You are excited when you find out there is a hardware store in walking distance from your office because you need more costuming supplies. :-)
- When talking about various levels of users in a database, you call them "stations"

Antique Clothing

I went and took a look at my early 1790's bodice this morning because of all the pretty LJ Tea Party pictures. The one thing I noticed about it is that the neckline is very wide and the bodice is short, similar to the chemise dress but it's over all construction is more like the robe a la francais. Does that make sense?
It has a drawstring in the neck that goes from the shoulder to the front of the gown. However, the drawstring is in the cotton lining and not the silk facing. Based on the shoulders, I'm wondering if the bodice was actually a 1780's gown that was redesigned in the 1790's to give a more fashionable shape. The skirt fabric has long since been taken away to make something else so I only have the bodice to go off of.
Anyway, I want to make a gown based off it post Pennsic. It's currently number two on my post-Pennsic list. :-)
Did I mention that I love my blackberry?

More musings on future outfits...

So, I really want to make a new 1840's dress for the Poe Event in Jan (assuming we are all still going?). I have black wool pieces to an early 1850's coat I'm going to piece back together (I'll just be a year or two fashion forward. Poe died in 1849 and the coat is from 1852~. It's just too marvelous not to put back together and wear around somewhere. It's also a perfect "mourning" 19th c coat.)

I really like this dress and think I have enough of the orange silk taffeta to put this together. I'm not sure what I really want to do with the dress (other than long sleeves!) this time around. I just want something that looks *right*. Oh well, if nothing else, I can just wear the black wool coat over the old purple dress. :-)

Eleanor Dress Update

One sleeve is done. The other has the gold edging but I have yet to do the designs. I think I need to go get more of the gold roping because, of the 25 yards I originally bought? I have two and half yards left. Now, I just need to do the sleeve but I don't think that it's enough for six roundels. I'd need at least another yard and I think I'll just drive over to G-Street and grab another three yards to be safe.

After the design is done, the rest of it is easy (well, for me it is). It's a matter of lining the sleeves, adding the bias trim to the edges, and then beading them together. Hopefully, I'll get everything done this weekend.

On the Neapolitian dress: I think i like the green linen much better than the orange linen as a lining. It just *goes* better and I can't really explain why. The colors together - the brown, green, and bright pink - just look like a flower. It's really pretty and the trim still matches. The orange just did not look right. So, the next project - probably for when I get back - will be the jacket and dress.