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Something unexpected!
Jun. 10th, 2011 10:11 pmLast weekend, we had a text from some dancing friends who also reenact, saying they were doing a Jacobite event at Kedleston this weekend, and did we want to go along and see what happens at a reenactment, and visit them in the officer's tent. So, as long as the weather clears up, Mummy and I are going tomorrow.
The period they do is 1740, we don't have anything that early, but I think my red wool round gown should be ok, but Mummy only has boy's stuff, which I don't think would be appropriate for a reenactment; or an '80s ballgown I remade for her last year that she wore over an illfitting pair of stays from my University course. At least, at the start of the week that's all she had!
She now has a linen shift (MUCH nicer than my old cotton one!) and blue stays boned mostly with cable ties. I was going to make her a shortgown, but she was out all day, so I couldn't do any fittings, so I made myself one first, since I don't have one. It has stitched down pleats in front and back, so it looks more like an English gown or caraco than a simple bed gown, I do like to be different ;) I was planning to make Mummy's more like the shortgowns on the Duran textiles website, or the one in Costume Closeup, so when I checked the fit of her finished stays and shift when she got home from work I also tried my new shortgown on her. It fit really well, except it doesn't pin closed, so will be perfect for a pattern for hers, but by this time it was 5pm, and I didn't feel like doing a manic rush job on her shortgown, and being really tired for tomorrow. So we decided, since mine actually looks really nice on her, she's going to wear it with a stomacher, and I'm going to make her her own later.
Here she is after the fitting:
We forgot about photos, so got her mostly dressed again for a snap shot!
The period they do is 1740, we don't have anything that early, but I think my red wool round gown should be ok, but Mummy only has boy's stuff, which I don't think would be appropriate for a reenactment; or an '80s ballgown I remade for her last year that she wore over an illfitting pair of stays from my University course. At least, at the start of the week that's all she had!
She now has a linen shift (MUCH nicer than my old cotton one!) and blue stays boned mostly with cable ties. I was going to make her a shortgown, but she was out all day, so I couldn't do any fittings, so I made myself one first, since I don't have one. It has stitched down pleats in front and back, so it looks more like an English gown or caraco than a simple bed gown, I do like to be different ;) I was planning to make Mummy's more like the shortgowns on the Duran textiles website, or the one in Costume Closeup, so when I checked the fit of her finished stays and shift when she got home from work I also tried my new shortgown on her. It fit really well, except it doesn't pin closed, so will be perfect for a pattern for hers, but by this time it was 5pm, and I didn't feel like doing a manic rush job on her shortgown, and being really tired for tomorrow. So we decided, since mine actually looks really nice on her, she's going to wear it with a stomacher, and I'm going to make her her own later.
Here she is after the fitting:
We forgot about photos, so got her mostly dressed again for a snap shot!
