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2016 costume year in review
Let's seeeeee...
I'm not going to count all the things I apparently started and didn't finish, oops. As usual.
I think the first finished things were in March for the Not-Francaise-Dinner - striped 1790 jacket and two painted petticoats.
Pre-Raphaelite undergown for Adrienne's birthday. I didn't finish the overgown because we got snowed out. In April. So rude!
Finished my cotton print Brunswick enough to be wearable. It doesn't particularly thrill me, but the temptation of making a stomacher and having it be a Terribly Versatile Outfit! is overriding the idea of selling it on at the moment. If I don't wear it again for two years I'll reconsider...
Threw together an 1830s summer dress and bonnet for Allaire. Along with all the underpinnings: corset, Stupid Sleeve puffers, corded petti, and top petti.
1830s rainbow trout ballgown for the very hot, very cramped Allaire barn dance. This was where I decided I don't actually like early 1830s that much on me, adorable as Robin looks in it.
1882 cotton print dress. Well, skirt, overskirt, and hastily-thrown-together voile shirtwaist, as it was 98* in the shade that day at Belvidere! I made most of the bodice but the fit is pretty bad and that does not make me want to finish it! Fond of the pleats on the skirt though.
Long undersleeves to tack into my Lizzie Bennet Regency. Very small project but I've been meaning to make them for three years or so...and I'm amazed I managed to find the scrap of fabric!
I made a 1770s cross-barred wool gown for really no reason other than I wanted to! Certainly didn't need it.
I made the basic white 1790s round gown in June, I think, and finished up some green and orange accessories for the Pumpkin tea. I very much like mid-1790s, I've found! Ridiculous but fun.
And two projects for the "Dickens Christmas" in New Castle: bonnet and mantle to wear over my cream poplin
And my favorite dress of the year: the red taffeta 1840 ballgown!
My list of intended sewing for this year? Let's see.
Things I Want to Sew in the New Year But Probably Won't (2016 edition)
- UFOs. This just stays on the list! Uh...the cross-barred anglaise technically was a UFO?
- At least one new outfit for Williamsburg. Details on this still need to be worked out, so I'm not completely certain I'll be able to do it, just money-wise, but if I possibly can I will! Also probably a nice capelet, mitts, and sundry other things I'll inevitably decide I need. We didn't end up getting it together for a W'burg trip, so I didn't really need any 18thc fancies
- The brocade 1760s sack! If I go to the Francaise dinner it'll be for that; if not it can go to Williamsburg. Nope. Think this is coming off the list, since I'm not looking to need any 18thc fancies this year either
- A snuggly pelisse. I was very inspired by the recent War and Peace trailer! I want it for my birthday (because I can always bully Robin into ice skating with me even if no one else will) and for the Washington's Birthday celebration at Allaire later in Feb. Shame that W&P turned out to be HORRIBLE (except for hot hot James Norton! but the women's costumes were tragic) so I really stopped being inspired to finish my pelisse, although it's three-quarters finished
- A Pre-Raphaelite gown for ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
miss_philomena's birthday outing. I wanted to make one of those regardless, and this is a nice reason to! (I was going to wait another year to let my hair get longer, but ah well.) I'm counting this since I did make the undergown!
- Sooper seekrit 1890s group project...still possibly! Nope! Still have fabric but taking it off the list.
- Finish the slightly scandalous Neoclassical gown. Every once in a while I go back and sew about 2" on this, but still nope.
Rather bad, but the Big Costume Trip didn't happen this year, so plans shifted. And I'm happy with what I did make! I just really like making lists, let's be honest here. ;)
Things I Want to Sew in the New Year But Probably Won't (2017 edition)
- UFOs. This just stays on the list!
- 1898 winter outfit for ice-skating. I've (barely) started the corset and combies, but this is basically a skin-out outfit that I have a month to do...gonna be interesting!
- Black-and-white 1882 dinner dress for Mick's after-party at Belvidere in September
- Possibly new ballgown (late 1850s, with tiers of black tulle) for Gettysburg Remembrance Day
- I'd like to try branching out into 1850s and late 1860s/elliptical, but I have no idea if I'll have time for that, so it's anything but definite. Eventually! ;)
- More modern skirts & dresses, and a pair of trousers or two. By "modern", I mean mostly 1950s! Someday I'd like for my entire wardrobe to be vintage, but that's a very long-term prospect! Chipping away at it though.
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I'm not going to count all the things I apparently started and didn't finish, oops. As usual.
I think the first finished things were in March for the Not-Francaise-Dinner - striped 1790 jacket and two painted petticoats.
Pre-Raphaelite undergown for Adrienne's birthday. I didn't finish the overgown because we got snowed out. In April. So rude!
Finished my cotton print Brunswick enough to be wearable. It doesn't particularly thrill me, but the temptation of making a stomacher and having it be a Terribly Versatile Outfit! is overriding the idea of selling it on at the moment. If I don't wear it again for two years I'll reconsider...
Threw together an 1830s summer dress and bonnet for Allaire. Along with all the underpinnings: corset, Stupid Sleeve puffers, corded petti, and top petti.
1830s rainbow trout ballgown for the very hot, very cramped Allaire barn dance. This was where I decided I don't actually like early 1830s that much on me, adorable as Robin looks in it.
1882 cotton print dress. Well, skirt, overskirt, and hastily-thrown-together voile shirtwaist, as it was 98* in the shade that day at Belvidere! I made most of the bodice but the fit is pretty bad and that does not make me want to finish it! Fond of the pleats on the skirt though.
Long undersleeves to tack into my Lizzie Bennet Regency. Very small project but I've been meaning to make them for three years or so...and I'm amazed I managed to find the scrap of fabric!
I made a 1770s cross-barred wool gown for really no reason other than I wanted to! Certainly didn't need it.
I made the basic white 1790s round gown in June, I think, and finished up some green and orange accessories for the Pumpkin tea. I very much like mid-1790s, I've found! Ridiculous but fun.
And two projects for the "Dickens Christmas" in New Castle: bonnet and mantle to wear over my cream poplin
And my favorite dress of the year: the red taffeta 1840 ballgown!
My list of intended sewing for this year? Let's see.
Things I Want to Sew in the New Year But Probably Won't (2016 edition)
- UFOs. This just stays on the list! Uh...the cross-barred anglaise technically was a UFO?
- At least one new outfit for Williamsburg. Details on this still need to be worked out, so I'm not completely certain I'll be able to do it, just money-wise, but if I possibly can I will! Also probably a nice capelet, mitts, and sundry other things I'll inevitably decide I need. We didn't end up getting it together for a W'burg trip, so I didn't really need any 18thc fancies
- The brocade 1760s sack! If I go to the Francaise dinner it'll be for that; if not it can go to Williamsburg. Nope. Think this is coming off the list, since I'm not looking to need any 18thc fancies this year either
- A snuggly pelisse. I was very inspired by the recent War and Peace trailer! I want it for my birthday (because I can always bully Robin into ice skating with me even if no one else will) and for the Washington's Birthday celebration at Allaire later in Feb. Shame that W&P turned out to be HORRIBLE (except for hot hot James Norton! but the women's costumes were tragic) so I really stopped being inspired to finish my pelisse, although it's three-quarters finished
miss_philomena- Sooper seekrit 1890s group project...still possibly! Nope! Still have fabric but taking it off the list.
- Finish the slightly scandalous Neoclassical gown. Every once in a while I go back and sew about 2" on this, but still nope.
Rather bad, but the Big Costume Trip didn't happen this year, so plans shifted. And I'm happy with what I did make! I just really like making lists, let's be honest here. ;)
Things I Want to Sew in the New Year But Probably Won't (2017 edition)
- UFOs. This just stays on the list!
- 1898 winter outfit for ice-skating. I've (barely) started the corset and combies, but this is basically a skin-out outfit that I have a month to do...gonna be interesting!
- Black-and-white 1882 dinner dress for Mick's after-party at Belvidere in September
- Possibly new ballgown (late 1850s, with tiers of black tulle) for Gettysburg Remembrance Day
- I'd like to try branching out into 1850s and late 1860s/elliptical, but I have no idea if I'll have time for that, so it's anything but definite. Eventually! ;)
- More modern skirts & dresses, and a pair of trousers or two. By "modern", I mean mostly 1950s! Someday I'd like for my entire wardrobe to be vintage, but that's a very long-term prospect! Chipping away at it though.
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So nice to meet you formally at the Pumpkin Tea. You were fashion plate perfect in 1790s.
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