Costume planning

[feuervogel]

So, guise, y'all know that this is my dream costume, right? I got email from a fabric shop in Raleigh about a department-closing sale on bridal and apparel fabrics.

There's a teeny chance they'll have the ridiculous lacy netting with gold spangles on it, so I'm looking at what patterns I need.

1865 elliptical cage crinoline (plus petticoats; I already have that pattern and possibly enough muslin, but muslin is cheap anyway.)
1865 elliptical skirt (6.5 yds 45" wide plus equal (?) for overlay)
1860s ballgown bodice (1.5-2 yds + equal lining + equal overlay + 1 yd interlining (twill, etc))

(Then I'll need $72 of hoop wire and a different set of underwear (though I might have just a drawers hiding out somewhere) since the combination chemise-and-drawers won't work with an off the shoulder top... and I'll need good concealer for my tattoo(s). And none of my corsets are an 1860s shape, but one of them will have to do... And I looked at the hair thingies in Vienna, because they sold them at all the museum shops but they were like 20 Euro each, and I'd need a dozen or 15, and that's serious money.)

Not that I'm thinking of doing it for this D*C; that's kind of insane. I'll save it for next year. Assuming they have what I'm looking for, that is. If not, it's still kinda moot.

Comments

[corpsefairy.livejournal.com]

Your DG corset will be fine for the 1860s shape - I don't think the shape changed that much between 1860 and 1880. Mostly it's giving you hip shaping that you don't need in an 1860s ballgown, but that won't make it look wrong.

We should try to arrange things so that I can fit your bodice on you! Are you going to be in the Bay Area any time in the next year?

[feuervogel]

I can fit TV bodices ;) But I have no idea if/when I'll make it out that way in the next ... ever. So. Damn. Busy. I might be free in, hmm, February?

Hay, that's my wedding dress!

[thesmallwonder.livejournal.com]

My mom based my wedding dress off of that paiting (literally!)...

We modified it to be white instead of pink and tweaked the accents to incorporate some embroidery on the front. But other then that. That painting is my wedding dress :)

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs042.snc3/12954_173087109227_675409227_2690713_1496939_n.jpg

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs062.snc3/12954_172632569227_675409227_2686404_6658236_n.jpg


It involved a steel boned hoop skirt, nine layers of chiffon, and I think it was 15 yard of hand embroidery...

Re: Hay, that's my wedding dress!

[feuervogel]

Shiny :) I'm aiming for an exact replica, or as close as possible. I'll probably end up making the skirt out of white something (a drapey silk?) and make a second lace skirt with gathers to give the drapery loopy look ad put them into the same waistband, of the silk, since it'll be covered by the bodice anyway.

[anacoluthon.livejournal.com]

It would be so great if you could pull that off. I'm sure that would be a really heavy dress - walking around would be tricky. But it would be amazing to see.

[feuervogel]

I'm used to wearing 5-lb costumes. At least this one will have a hoop skirt to hold it up for me XD Though I wouldn't fit into an elevator with other people, and escalators are right out. So I'd put it on and camp out in a visible area for a while, and make sure there aren't any panels I want to go to during that time period. (A visible area so people will stop and take my picture, of course!) I'd also enter into the costume contest.