A few good things
Apr. 9th, 2014 06:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotAll things told, today was pretty great.
- My bonnet patterns came! Bonnet-making is fun and sculptural, and when my buckram comes I'm going to make one and it's going to be awesome. I learned the very basics with my crap bonnet and am now ready. I am set for the whole 19th century, patternwise, minus a couple of bits.
- I got tired of doing nothing at all and suggested to Tim that, because the mannequin-dressing is never going to get off the ground due to a lack of space and the necessity of padding, skirt supports, etc., I photograph bodices lying flat and then pattern the whole thing, so that the sorts of things that would be apparent dressed are still shown. He went for it! I started out with a pair of WWII tap pants to warm up, then did a supposed 1865 wedding dress (I was thinking it's probably closer to 1870, but then I saw this plate ... which may be misdated, though) and then an early teens magenta evening dress. Going to do some family wedding dresses (1890s) tomorrow or so, but I also want to use this as an opportunity to get links to the site shared around, so I'm trying to aim at eras where there are fairly dedicated groups of reenactors and/or a lot of interest.
- After that, I photographed all the dress from Peterson's 1870, and that led me to be able to date a supposed wedding dress that had been put at late 1850s because of its pagoda sleeves. But pagoda sleeves were in in 1870! And that makes all of the non-1850s aspects make sense now. I feel very happy about that. I am always the dating queen!
- Just found out that the Met is now allowing some images, including ones of dressed mannequins, to be published license-free for academic use!
- My bonnet patterns came! Bonnet-making is fun and sculptural, and when my buckram comes I'm going to make one and it's going to be awesome. I learned the very basics with my crap bonnet and am now ready. I am set for the whole 19th century, patternwise, minus a couple of bits.
- I got tired of doing nothing at all and suggested to Tim that, because the mannequin-dressing is never going to get off the ground due to a lack of space and the necessity of padding, skirt supports, etc., I photograph bodices lying flat and then pattern the whole thing, so that the sorts of things that would be apparent dressed are still shown. He went for it! I started out with a pair of WWII tap pants to warm up, then did a supposed 1865 wedding dress (I was thinking it's probably closer to 1870, but then I saw this plate ... which may be misdated, though) and then an early teens magenta evening dress. Going to do some family wedding dresses (1890s) tomorrow or so, but I also want to use this as an opportunity to get links to the site shared around, so I'm trying to aim at eras where there are fairly dedicated groups of reenactors and/or a lot of interest.
- After that, I photographed all the dress from Peterson's 1870, and that led me to be able to date a supposed wedding dress that had been put at late 1850s because of its pagoda sleeves. But pagoda sleeves were in in 1870! And that makes all of the non-1850s aspects make sense now. I feel very happy about that. I am always the dating queen!
- Just found out that the Met is now allowing some images, including ones of dressed mannequins, to be published license-free for academic use!
