tag:dreamwidth.org,2016-12-30:2659325A Dedicated Follower of Fashionmisled indefatigable optimism (and sewing, too!)mandie_rw2017-01-16T05:30:21Ztag:dreamwidth.org,2016-12-30:2659325:563379blog post2017-01-16T05:30:21Z2017-01-16T05:30:21Zpublic2I'm so posty today! Finally remembered that I wanted to do a blog post on my not-actually-finished green silk pelisse and our winter Regency tea from last Sunday...<a href="http://mandierw.blogspot.com/2017/01/regency-winter-tea.html">here</a>.<br /><br /><img src="http://i851.photobucket.com/albums/ab73/wood242424/Events%202017/Regency%20Winter%20Tea/31819941370_dabe321aab_o_zpsgsfc4os7.jpg" alt="Woman in a long green fur trimmed Regency coat" width="300" height="400" /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mandie_rw&ditemid=563379" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> commentstag:dreamwidth.org,2016-12-30:2659325:561255Not dead!2017-01-09T06:34:24Z2017-01-09T06:34:24Zgoodpublic4If correlation and causation are the same, then I can state for a fact that a severe cold can be improved mightily by a long bitching session with one's friends on FB chat about how sick one is feeling! ;) Felt rather better yesterday (but still managed to snag a snow day, since the store called me with an "if you're still feeling sick we don't <em>really</em> need you on tonight" ten minutes before I was going to call in to say they hadn't yet plowed my street!), and vastly better today, though I'm still a little snuffly and have a charming post-nasal drip. And, snow! I think my area ended up getting between 5-6" yesterday...the perfect amount to really enjoy, but not quite enough to make shoveling horrible, or really foul up the roads. Helped that it wasn't during the workweek...<br /><br />A few of us went out to <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://sewloud.livejournal.com/profile'><img src='https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif' alt='[livejournal.com profile] ' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' width='17' height='17'/></a><a href='http://sewloud.livejournal.com/'><b>sewloud</b></a></span> 's local tea house for a little 12th Night(...ish)/Holiday Regency tea this afternoon; same place we went for our (pompously named) Farewell to Summer tea, which is really nice for a low-key event with a few people. I must be feeling better, as yesterday afternoon I realized my green silk pelisse from last year was very nearly wearable... So I got that into a wearable if not finished state, and once I can snag pics from Robin I'll post them.<br /><br />I've also officially revised my plans for ice skating. I still want to make the Very Smart plum wool suit, but I can't kid myself anymore that I'll have time for it! Losing almost a week of sewing time just won't allow it - I know how fast I can sew, and it's not that fast! So! Plan...what are we up to? C? D? Heh.<br /><br />So I brainstormed a bit, and went down the "well, what would <em>actual me</em> in 1898 or so have worn?" (Not that Actual Me would be exactly the same in 1898 as 2017 Me, but you get the gist.) Not a fashion plate, like the plum suit! I like pretty things, but don't have an unlimited budget to spend on clothes or places to wear high-fashion things, and I strongly prefer separates over dresses. Well...that can work for 1898 Me, too! And that should work for 2017 Me's time constraints, too. :P<br /><br />Almost definitely still going to make a jacket out of the plum wool - partly because it's really very nice wool, partly because if I want to trim it up later and make the plum wool suit I can, and partly because my new winter coat this year in Real Life is a very similar shade of plummy burgundy, so it amuses me. I haven't actually dragged out the fabrics for the waist and skirt yet, but mentally a skirt of navy wool-cotton flannel and waist of tiny burgundy and cream check silk look nice and neat together! Reserve the right to change that if they don't look nice when I put them next to each other in real time and space though. ;)<br /><br />And a new hat if I possibly have the time! Heh.<br /><br /><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=mandie_rw&ditemid=561255" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments