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mandie_rwIn my defense, I've been thinking about making this dress since forever...at least, since ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jenthompson made her Lost Hope fairy dress and since I read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell! And now everybody's making a Lost Hope fairy for CosCol, and I want one too! Well, not that I'm going to Costume College. And not that I have any idea where I'll wear this. But I haven't made something not-quite-historical in ages, and I really want to.
And use GLUE. And the SEWING MACHINE. I KNOW. In my defense, I have the fabric already...
So anyway, for those of you who haven't read the book, it's set during the Regency, and the fairies of Lost Hope are more of a fey and mornful type than happy chipper little sprites. I could come up with tons of ideas for a fairy based on the book descriptions, but when you account for what I've got in-stash, the dress the "color of a winter sunset" especially inspired me.
I have just over a yard of navy dupioni and a few yards of a silky blend that originally came frombauhausfrau's stash (it passed through a person or two before it came to me!) that told me they'd look nice together.
And I cannot for the life of me locate the fashion plate that originally inspired me...it was probably about 1798-1800, with a gathered gown and an open robe with a sort of V-neck (specific, I know...), but a lot of those turn-of-the-century styles are similar so you've probably seen something similar. So, the navy silk for the undergown and rust-and-blue stripe for the open robe. The only thing I'd need to buy are some icicles I'm contemplating...but I'm not certain of where to stick them that wouldn't look super-dorky. Must think on this.
I say undergown, but since I only have about a yard, I'm going to fake it and just make the front, and attach it to the side-seams of the open robe. That took a bit of thought to construct mentally, but I think I did work out the correct order! Have to do the front piece out of navy silk first. So I started the embellishment today (with glue!)...I'm thinking of the overgown itself as the color of the sunset itself, and then the navy underneath as the night the sunset is giving way to. So, I need stars in my night sky, right? Sequins!
I'm about 2/3 of the way done the first sweep of sequins; I'll go back and fill some more in where I think I need it. I did a few winter constellations out of the larger sequins. They're hard to see, but I didn't want them to be really obvious...plus I think it's kinda hard to see the real ones anyway. ;)
Possibly more glueing tomorrow, but I'll be at Allaire most of the day, so no promises!
jenthompson made her Lost Hope fairy dress and since I read Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell! And now everybody's making a Lost Hope fairy for CosCol, and I want one too! Well, not that I'm going to Costume College. And not that I have any idea where I'll wear this. But I haven't made something not-quite-historical in ages, and I really want to.And use GLUE. And the SEWING MACHINE. I KNOW. In my defense, I have the fabric already...
So anyway, for those of you who haven't read the book, it's set during the Regency, and the fairies of Lost Hope are more of a fey and mornful type than happy chipper little sprites. I could come up with tons of ideas for a fairy based on the book descriptions, but when you account for what I've got in-stash, the dress the "color of a winter sunset" especially inspired me.
I have just over a yard of navy dupioni and a few yards of a silky blend that originally came from
bauhausfrau's stash (it passed through a person or two before it came to me!) that told me they'd look nice together.And I cannot for the life of me locate the fashion plate that originally inspired me...it was probably about 1798-1800, with a gathered gown and an open robe with a sort of V-neck (specific, I know...), but a lot of those turn-of-the-century styles are similar so you've probably seen something similar. So, the navy silk for the undergown and rust-and-blue stripe for the open robe. The only thing I'd need to buy are some icicles I'm contemplating...but I'm not certain of where to stick them that wouldn't look super-dorky. Must think on this.
I say undergown, but since I only have about a yard, I'm going to fake it and just make the front, and attach it to the side-seams of the open robe. That took a bit of thought to construct mentally, but I think I did work out the correct order! Have to do the front piece out of navy silk first. So I started the embellishment today (with glue!)...I'm thinking of the overgown itself as the color of the sunset itself, and then the navy underneath as the night the sunset is giving way to. So, I need stars in my night sky, right? Sequins!
I'm about 2/3 of the way done the first sweep of sequins; I'll go back and fill some more in where I think I need it. I did a few winter constellations out of the larger sequins. They're hard to see, but I didn't want them to be really obvious...plus I think it's kinda hard to see the real ones anyway. ;)
Possibly more glueing tomorrow, but I'll be at Allaire most of the day, so no promises!
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Date: 2015-07-13 08:44 pm (UTC)And I can GLUE, hee hee hee.