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- I've decided that I should drag Mr Dedicated Follower of Fashion along with me to our Regency picnic, and he therefore needs duds. Summer weight, so linen linen linen! The current mental debate is trousers vs breeches. Alas, he expressed a disinclination to wear any version of those painted-on Regency trousers.
Me: But you've got a cute butt!
Him: But I'm fat and would look horrible in tight pants.
Me: But...you've got a cute butt! And nice legs!
Him: Please no.
I'll be nice THIS TIME. I was poking around the interwebs to see what was on offer for man-Regency-clothes, and...meh? The stuff that's nice enough that I'd be happy to pay for it is more than I want to spend on his clothes! (Also, if we're having a summer picnic, I'm not sticking him in polyester, which is by far the most common offering. That's just cruel and unusual.) I haaaaaaate making pants, but I suppose I'm going to. Currently leaning towards breeches, so he'll have to wear stockings and shoes, as retaliation for the tight-trousers refusal. ;)
Anyway, I stayed up way too late fabric shopping last night and found some vaguely nankeen-colored cheapish cotton twill - couldn't get fractions, so I'll have enough fabric for breeches or trousers, whichever. But, shirt first!
Again, could probably have bought this. But wanted linen, or at least linen-cotton...and that was un-findable for less than $150. Cut the pieces for that on Saturday - using the Kannik's Korner early 19thc shirt pattern. I bought patterns for everything except the bottoms last year when we were still optimistic that Stuff Would Happen at some point in 2020 (haaaaa). Could I have figured out a shirt pattern on my own? Totally. Did I want to? Totally not. Will probably do a machine-hand sewing combo; compromise of "I like hand sewing!" and "I'd actually like to finish this someday!" Not off to a good start with time management, as I pulled threads and fudged cutting layouts to conserve fabric, which altogether ended up taking probably 3 f'ing hours. PULLING THREADS, I TELL YOU WHAT.
- Going from two events in two weekends to no events in two weekends! (Did I mention the "promenade" got canceled last weekend because of weather? Well, it got canceled because of weather!)
Robin and I made the joint decision to bag the Edwardian Stroll at Longwood this weekend - the weather's been SO iffy the last two weeks and it's supposed to have some kind of Weather Event almost every day this week. Saturday's currently clear but I don't trust it. Plus almost all the original attendees were planning to bail for various reasons...plus Robin decided she didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of finishing her knitted 1890s sweater for Saturday. We may try to reschedule for March...or we may try to reschedule for next March.
Or I'll let somebody else come up with an event for a change, because I'm tired of putting them together and then having them peter out! *world's tiniest violin plays*
Depending on the weather on Saturday I may gear up anyway and make puppy-dog eyes at The Affianced and get him to take pictures of The Hat in a nicer setting than my living room! We shall see.
Me: But you've got a cute butt!
Him: But I'm fat and would look horrible in tight pants.
Me: But...you've got a cute butt! And nice legs!
Him: Please no.
I'll be nice THIS TIME. I was poking around the interwebs to see what was on offer for man-Regency-clothes, and...meh? The stuff that's nice enough that I'd be happy to pay for it is more than I want to spend on his clothes! (Also, if we're having a summer picnic, I'm not sticking him in polyester, which is by far the most common offering. That's just cruel and unusual.) I haaaaaaate making pants, but I suppose I'm going to. Currently leaning towards breeches, so he'll have to wear stockings and shoes, as retaliation for the tight-trousers refusal. ;)
Anyway, I stayed up way too late fabric shopping last night and found some vaguely nankeen-colored cheapish cotton twill - couldn't get fractions, so I'll have enough fabric for breeches or trousers, whichever. But, shirt first!
Again, could probably have bought this. But wanted linen, or at least linen-cotton...and that was un-findable for less than $150. Cut the pieces for that on Saturday - using the Kannik's Korner early 19thc shirt pattern. I bought patterns for everything except the bottoms last year when we were still optimistic that Stuff Would Happen at some point in 2020 (haaaaa). Could I have figured out a shirt pattern on my own? Totally. Did I want to? Totally not. Will probably do a machine-hand sewing combo; compromise of "I like hand sewing!" and "I'd actually like to finish this someday!" Not off to a good start with time management, as I pulled threads and fudged cutting layouts to conserve fabric, which altogether ended up taking probably 3 f'ing hours. PULLING THREADS, I TELL YOU WHAT.
- Going from two events in two weekends to no events in two weekends! (Did I mention the "promenade" got canceled last weekend because of weather? Well, it got canceled because of weather!)
Robin and I made the joint decision to bag the Edwardian Stroll at Longwood this weekend - the weather's been SO iffy the last two weeks and it's supposed to have some kind of Weather Event almost every day this week. Saturday's currently clear but I don't trust it. Plus almost all the original attendees were planning to bail for various reasons...plus Robin decided she didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of finishing her knitted 1890s sweater for Saturday. We may try to reschedule for March...or we may try to reschedule for next March.
Or I'll let somebody else come up with an event for a change, because I'm tired of putting them together and then having them peter out! *world's tiniest violin plays*
Depending on the weather on Saturday I may gear up anyway and make puppy-dog eyes at The Affianced and get him to take pictures of The Hat in a nicer setting than my living room! We shall see.
