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Jan. 21st, 2016 08:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotSome of today's dresses were boring, but I did find some good ones! I shared two bad pictures on Facebook. The blue doesn't photograph well because it's that early 1850s iridescent kind of shot silk - blue and yellow. The top of the flared sleeve is pleated to fit the armscye and the pleats are stitched down. I have absolutely no use for an outfit from that period, but I really want to pattern and copy it. Maybe we'll do something a bit Dickensian around Christmas and I can justify it ... The other is from 1912, worn by the donor's mother on her honeymoon to New York. (It didn't really photograph well either ...) I love the one-sided lapel, because why? And it has a kind of apron overskirt in the front, because why not?
Edit: forgot to say, that sailor suit from a few days ago? The owner was elected secretary of the local or regional Red Cross in 1917, and I like to think she had that made for the occasion, because it's so military.
I was really hoping to get that grant for dress forms, but it was not to be. :( I got an email today saying they'd given out all the money in round 1 and can't have a round 2 (again), and since I never got a notification about the grant before that, I assume that means no. Very sad. I have another source to try but I think people in general are just heartless Philistines who don't understand the importance of historical clothing in building the public's appreciation for the past, ANYWAY.
To take pictures for the HSM, I've pretty much decided that I'm going to clean away my recycling from the one area in the apartment where there's space and clear wall enough for a backdrop, get fully dressed, and try to use the timer on my phone or tablet camera. Hopefully it works because the only other options are a mirror pic (and my mirror's better than the old one, but it's still very much not ideal since only one pose is possible) or putting it on the skinny dress form (boobs aren't in the right place, it will look stupid).
Edit: Reading the Pragmatic Costumer's recent corset review, and ... we are basically the same size, except I have more hips/butt. So why do I think she looks svelte in all of her pictures and I look fat in mine??
Edit: forgot to say, that sailor suit from a few days ago? The owner was elected secretary of the local or regional Red Cross in 1917, and I like to think she had that made for the occasion, because it's so military.
I was really hoping to get that grant for dress forms, but it was not to be. :( I got an email today saying they'd given out all the money in round 1 and can't have a round 2 (again), and since I never got a notification about the grant before that, I assume that means no. Very sad. I have another source to try but I think people in general are just heartless Philistines who don't understand the importance of historical clothing in building the public's appreciation for the past, ANYWAY.
To take pictures for the HSM, I've pretty much decided that I'm going to clean away my recycling from the one area in the apartment where there's space and clear wall enough for a backdrop, get fully dressed, and try to use the timer on my phone or tablet camera. Hopefully it works because the only other options are a mirror pic (and my mirror's better than the old one, but it's still very much not ideal since only one pose is possible) or putting it on the skinny dress form (boobs aren't in the right place, it will look stupid).
Edit: Reading the Pragmatic Costumer's recent corset review, and ... we are basically the same size, except I have more hips/butt. So why do I think she looks svelte in all of her pictures and I look fat in mine??
