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Made a coif to go with the Flemish outfit today. Woo, progress! Also ordered the linen for the outfit, with delivery estimate 4-8 days. Hoping for more like 4...but even if I don't get it for over a week, I still don't anticipate trouble finishing at least the kirtle!
The nice thing about Flemish working-class women's fashion in the 16thc is that you have a yuuuuge amount of options as to what to do with your head. (The stuffed donut is still wrong, though.) I love the look of the taped braids, but I love only having to do bare minimum with my hair even more. So I'm opting for a combination of ye olde standard coif with a hood on top. I like both the shapes of the picture below and the one in my icon, at least in theory, so we'll see what I like in practice with mockups tomorrow.
I went through three mockups of the coif today: I had a basic pattern cut out from a million years ago that I'd never actually successfully fitted - didn't need it, why bother. It needed...some size increasing. Mockup #1's on top, and each one got successively bigger!
Actually I think I ended up making the last one a little too big, because the end product's just a tiny bit more on the bulbous-head side than I was looking for...but it's not so offensive I feel the need to make another one right now! It's just a leeetle more space for hair than I need. Not everyone has![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
hiraimi 's hair...
Hand sewn, of course; made of lightweight but not overly fine linen. Bog-standard coif!
As mentioned. I ordered the linen today. Be amazed, I actually made a decision in a timely fashion... It helped that I found a slightly different shade-than-I-was-thinking-but-still-in-the-reddish-family was on sale, so despite having to do a bit of juggling of my mental visuals, it worked out well in the long run by making me certain I wanted the cheaper linen!
Clockwise from top left: kirtle, gown, gown lining, sleeves.
(The kirtle and gown fabric are more dissimilar in customer review photos than the website picture makes it look; the kirtle linen is more of a madder pinky-red, while the gown linen has definite brick red-orange tones. I feel the need to defend my apparently having bought the same color for gown and kirtle! It's really not! I hope...)
So tomorrow I'll get the hood mocked up, if not completely sewn, and after that I need to fix the sleeves on my 16thc smock. I made a new basic one with square neck and plain sleeves after my Venetian one made in my first year of college got just too nasty...but I got a little over-enthusiastic with the size of the sleeves, so once I put them in with the gussets, the lower point of the gusset is at my waist. That's...a little too roomy, even for underwear, LOL. The pieces are all nicely hemmed and butted together, so rather than cut them down and re-hem, I'm just going to take the sleeves off and gather them up at the shoulder so they aren't so stupidly wide. Not quite as correct, I think, as a completely plain sleeve, but it's definitely the path of least resistance!
ETA for own reference: link to helpful Pinterest board
The nice thing about Flemish working-class women's fashion in the 16thc is that you have a yuuuuge amount of options as to what to do with your head. (The stuffed donut is still wrong, though.) I love the look of the taped braids, but I love only having to do bare minimum with my hair even more. So I'm opting for a combination of ye olde standard coif with a hood on top. I like both the shapes of the picture below and the one in my icon, at least in theory, so we'll see what I like in practice with mockups tomorrow.
I went through three mockups of the coif today: I had a basic pattern cut out from a million years ago that I'd never actually successfully fitted - didn't need it, why bother. It needed...some size increasing. Mockup #1's on top, and each one got successively bigger!
Actually I think I ended up making the last one a little too big, because the end product's just a tiny bit more on the bulbous-head side than I was looking for...but it's not so offensive I feel the need to make another one right now! It's just a leeetle more space for hair than I need. Not everyone has
hiraimi 's hair... Hand sewn, of course; made of lightweight but not overly fine linen. Bog-standard coif!
As mentioned. I ordered the linen today. Be amazed, I actually made a decision in a timely fashion... It helped that I found a slightly different shade-than-I-was-thinking-but-still-in-the-reddish-family was on sale, so despite having to do a bit of juggling of my mental visuals, it worked out well in the long run by making me certain I wanted the cheaper linen!
Clockwise from top left: kirtle, gown, gown lining, sleeves.
(The kirtle and gown fabric are more dissimilar in customer review photos than the website picture makes it look; the kirtle linen is more of a madder pinky-red, while the gown linen has definite brick red-orange tones. I feel the need to defend my apparently having bought the same color for gown and kirtle! It's really not! I hope...)
So tomorrow I'll get the hood mocked up, if not completely sewn, and after that I need to fix the sleeves on my 16thc smock. I made a new basic one with square neck and plain sleeves after my Venetian one made in my first year of college got just too nasty...but I got a little over-enthusiastic with the size of the sleeves, so once I put them in with the gussets, the lower point of the gusset is at my waist. That's...a little too roomy, even for underwear, LOL. The pieces are all nicely hemmed and butted together, so rather than cut them down and re-hem, I'm just going to take the sleeves off and gather them up at the shoulder so they aren't so stupidly wide. Not quite as correct, I think, as a completely plain sleeve, but it's definitely the path of least resistance!
ETA for own reference: link to helpful Pinterest board