Planning the rest of the season
Aug. 28th, 2005 10:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
isabelladangeloSo first weekend went off without too much of a hitch garb wise. Only a few minor problems like loose beads and needed to take the waist in of a skirt; nothing major. So, now my thoughts turn to the rest of the season:
Jousting Tournment weekend: So my first thought when hearing Jousting is "A knights tale". Yes, I know, very silly. But I figure I'll go with an "earlier" period style and Italian this weekend. I know I'll wear the pink and "silver" gown on Saturday along with my new scarf and my silver circlet. It should look nice.
I'm debating about the light blue gown with the coat or the dark blue gown with the gold embroidery for Sunday. It shouldn't be too hot (81 as a high) so the coat should be okay. My problem is that the dark blue gown is a velvet bodice with silverly blue for an underskirt layer and a gorgeous georgette navy blue silk overlayer with gold embroidery. Yes, real gold. It was a sari in a former life. I cut it up to make a gown and a scarf. Either one should look good and is a drastic departure from my pink & silver/ red & black wardrobe.
Deaf Awareness weekend: On Saturday, I'm not too sure. I'm currently think the pink and silver tudor. It's fairly simple but lovely looking and I got tons of complements last year. I might go for the Black and red tudor but this maybe the last chance to wear "light" clothing before the cold front comes through.
On Sunday it will be 9/11 so I'll be wearing my red peasant bodice with the blue and tannish white skirts.
Scottish Weekend: I know the outfits I want to wear this weekend; the purple bodice with matching skirt and the red Irish Gown with matching skirt. My problem is which days to wear it? I think I might just see what I "feel" like wearing given the day.
Pirate weekend: I definatly want to wear my Leather bodice and my silk skirt one day and maybe I can throw together a nice skirt to match my real 1700's frock coat that I wear every year. Yes, I wear it. It's still in pristine condition. If it could survive being a sack gown that was cut up in WWII due to fabric shortages in California, it can easily survive being worn for a few hours around faire every year. I'll have to think more on this weekend about what to wear.
Octoberfest: I really am considering making a german gown specifically for this weekend. I might wear my black and red tudor this weekend as well if I don't wear it Deaf Awareness weekend first. If I miraculous get brave enough to cut up the linen I have, I might, just might, be able to wear my 15th c german gown. I'm still only in the planning stages of it and really don't want to mess it up since the fabric I have for it is just right and is ridiculously hard to find.
Romance Weekend: As promised, I will wear the Just Breathe gown this weekend. If I pled hard enough, Randy, one of my brothers, may help me with creating the wings for the gown. I'm wonderful with fabric but clueless with metals. So, I'm gonna give him the pattern for the metal and see if he can figure out how to sauder coat hangers together. :-)
I will also wear the ruins gown which is red silk velvet. It's simple but elegant. It only has a little bit of gold around the gauntlets and that's it.
Shakespeare Weekend: Hopefully, I'll have two gowns that are in the "I have the fabric!" stage done but then. One is the black and red Italian gown and the other is an 11th/12th c Normanish gown. Basically, I wanted a gown that would look like something Lady MacBeth really would have worn. The true MacBeth did live on the contenant side for a time before reclaiming his crown so I think Lady MacBeth's gowns would reflect that influence. My idea is really a bit close to the Waterhouse's The Tempest although I think he was trying for more of a 14th c feel. I probably will used some the same blue linen as the 15th c german gown (I had 20 yards of it. It's down to 11ish or something close) for the overgown and get some red linen or maybe worsted wool? for the undergown. Maybe I'll just get silk. The overgown will be shorter than the undergown, as was popular in the 11th c, plus I'll add a lot of trim. I think I have some gold trim lying around here somewhere.
Last Weekend: If I don't wear the light blue gown this upcoming weekend, I'll probably wear it this one along with the nice long coat. The reason is that it was my first renaissance gown (I actually did vintage 50's dresses before this lol) and so umm....there is a zipper in the back. Yes yes, I know. But I don't have the heart to rip it out. So, I made the coat instead to cover the offending zipper. The coat is really a nice dark blue twill with a nice shiny trim.
Sunday, the day of wrong, well...let's just say it will be absolutely correct to period (give or take 10-15 years) but with a twist. I'm sure I'll have people giving me odd looks. :-)
So I was looking through my closet last night after I posted this and realized I had forgotten a couple of gowns. One is my brocade red and black italian that has a red and black pattern on it and the other is the purple surcote I've been working on (::insert "Duh" here::).
This red and black italian differs from the one I want to make greatly so as not to confuse people too much. The one I already have was probably my second renaissance gown ever. So yes, it's old. It has grommets in the back for lacing. They're big, but they are there. It als has darts in the front which has been debated over whether those are period or not. The fabric has a red background with black swirls on it and the reverse on the inserted panel.
The one I have yet to make is out of a red and gold silk brocade and will have a black velvet overgown. I think I said I want to wear the one I have yet to make on Shakespeare Weekend but I might change that. I might wear this one Octoberfest (still gonna make one of the other two german gowns) and wear the surcote on Shakespeare Weekend. I have a blue/gold skirt that would look great with the surcote. I just need to figure out which bodice to wear with it. (Maybe I'll wear my very old white one from Georgetown Cotton since no one will see the bodice beneath the surcoate anyways!) The blue/gold irridescent silk skirt is from my Star Wars gown that I did put a picture of in one of my posts.
I'll do an indepth search of my garb to see if I accidently missed any of it. This was just a prelim search last night. :-)
::hitting head against wardrobe door:: Okay, I just remembered another gown and that this upcoming weekend is a three day weekend soooo.... The red and black italian that has already been made will probably be switched to this weekend. For pirates weekend, I might wear my black and red Elizabethan gown. It's a black velvet bodice with red silk sleeves and scarletwork on the faux sleeves. The skirt is black satin silk. I had a yard of black cottn velvet left over from a clients cape, bought 2 yards of gorgeous red silk that was too red for what I orginally wanted, and had 3 yards of 97% silk/ 3% spandex satin because it was only $5 online. All of that got turned into a gown. It's loosely based on the blue/green gown worn in the movie "Elizabeth" in the first few scenes. I might add some trim to it or something but I'm not sure. It looks pretty the way it is now.
Jousting Tournment weekend: So my first thought when hearing Jousting is "A knights tale". Yes, I know, very silly. But I figure I'll go with an "earlier" period style and Italian this weekend. I know I'll wear the pink and "silver" gown on Saturday along with my new scarf and my silver circlet. It should look nice.
I'm debating about the light blue gown with the coat or the dark blue gown with the gold embroidery for Sunday. It shouldn't be too hot (81 as a high) so the coat should be okay. My problem is that the dark blue gown is a velvet bodice with silverly blue for an underskirt layer and a gorgeous georgette navy blue silk overlayer with gold embroidery. Yes, real gold. It was a sari in a former life. I cut it up to make a gown and a scarf. Either one should look good and is a drastic departure from my pink & silver/ red & black wardrobe.
Deaf Awareness weekend: On Saturday, I'm not too sure. I'm currently think the pink and silver tudor. It's fairly simple but lovely looking and I got tons of complements last year. I might go for the Black and red tudor but this maybe the last chance to wear "light" clothing before the cold front comes through.
On Sunday it will be 9/11 so I'll be wearing my red peasant bodice with the blue and tannish white skirts.
Scottish Weekend: I know the outfits I want to wear this weekend; the purple bodice with matching skirt and the red Irish Gown with matching skirt. My problem is which days to wear it? I think I might just see what I "feel" like wearing given the day.
Pirate weekend: I definatly want to wear my Leather bodice and my silk skirt one day and maybe I can throw together a nice skirt to match my real 1700's frock coat that I wear every year. Yes, I wear it. It's still in pristine condition. If it could survive being a sack gown that was cut up in WWII due to fabric shortages in California, it can easily survive being worn for a few hours around faire every year. I'll have to think more on this weekend about what to wear.
Octoberfest: I really am considering making a german gown specifically for this weekend. I might wear my black and red tudor this weekend as well if I don't wear it Deaf Awareness weekend first. If I miraculous get brave enough to cut up the linen I have, I might, just might, be able to wear my 15th c german gown. I'm still only in the planning stages of it and really don't want to mess it up since the fabric I have for it is just right and is ridiculously hard to find.
Romance Weekend: As promised, I will wear the Just Breathe gown this weekend. If I pled hard enough, Randy, one of my brothers, may help me with creating the wings for the gown. I'm wonderful with fabric but clueless with metals. So, I'm gonna give him the pattern for the metal and see if he can figure out how to sauder coat hangers together. :-)
I will also wear the ruins gown which is red silk velvet. It's simple but elegant. It only has a little bit of gold around the gauntlets and that's it.
Shakespeare Weekend: Hopefully, I'll have two gowns that are in the "I have the fabric!" stage done but then. One is the black and red Italian gown and the other is an 11th/12th c Normanish gown. Basically, I wanted a gown that would look like something Lady MacBeth really would have worn. The true MacBeth did live on the contenant side for a time before reclaiming his crown so I think Lady MacBeth's gowns would reflect that influence. My idea is really a bit close to the Waterhouse's The Tempest although I think he was trying for more of a 14th c feel. I probably will used some the same blue linen as the 15th c german gown (I had 20 yards of it. It's down to 11ish or something close) for the overgown and get some red linen or maybe worsted wool? for the undergown. Maybe I'll just get silk. The overgown will be shorter than the undergown, as was popular in the 11th c, plus I'll add a lot of trim. I think I have some gold trim lying around here somewhere.
Last Weekend: If I don't wear the light blue gown this upcoming weekend, I'll probably wear it this one along with the nice long coat. The reason is that it was my first renaissance gown (I actually did vintage 50's dresses before this lol) and so umm....there is a zipper in the back. Yes yes, I know. But I don't have the heart to rip it out. So, I made the coat instead to cover the offending zipper. The coat is really a nice dark blue twill with a nice shiny trim.
Sunday, the day of wrong, well...let's just say it will be absolutely correct to period (give or take 10-15 years) but with a twist. I'm sure I'll have people giving me odd looks. :-)
So I was looking through my closet last night after I posted this and realized I had forgotten a couple of gowns. One is my brocade red and black italian that has a red and black pattern on it and the other is the purple surcote I've been working on (::insert "Duh" here::).
This red and black italian differs from the one I want to make greatly so as not to confuse people too much. The one I already have was probably my second renaissance gown ever. So yes, it's old. It has grommets in the back for lacing. They're big, but they are there. It als has darts in the front which has been debated over whether those are period or not. The fabric has a red background with black swirls on it and the reverse on the inserted panel.
The one I have yet to make is out of a red and gold silk brocade and will have a black velvet overgown. I think I said I want to wear the one I have yet to make on Shakespeare Weekend but I might change that. I might wear this one Octoberfest (still gonna make one of the other two german gowns) and wear the surcote on Shakespeare Weekend. I have a blue/gold skirt that would look great with the surcote. I just need to figure out which bodice to wear with it. (Maybe I'll wear my very old white one from Georgetown Cotton since no one will see the bodice beneath the surcoate anyways!) The blue/gold irridescent silk skirt is from my Star Wars gown that I did put a picture of in one of my posts.
I'll do an indepth search of my garb to see if I accidently missed any of it. This was just a prelim search last night. :-)
::hitting head against wardrobe door:: Okay, I just remembered another gown and that this upcoming weekend is a three day weekend soooo.... The red and black italian that has already been made will probably be switched to this weekend. For pirates weekend, I might wear my black and red Elizabethan gown. It's a black velvet bodice with red silk sleeves and scarletwork on the faux sleeves. The skirt is black satin silk. I had a yard of black cottn velvet left over from a clients cape, bought 2 yards of gorgeous red silk that was too red for what I orginally wanted, and had 3 yards of 97% silk/ 3% spandex satin because it was only $5 online. All of that got turned into a gown. It's loosely based on the blue/green gown worn in the movie "Elizabeth" in the first few scenes. I might add some trim to it or something but I'm not sure. It looks pretty the way it is now.
