OKAY I AM GOING WITH THE BLUE ONE, i like the colours way better 🙂
Probably gonna make the over-sleeves eventually anyway. THEY’RE SO ELIZABETHAN. I have a heckload of faux-fur left over from a production a few years ago. It’s going to come in useful now! I can attach them or not, depends on if the dress becomes too ‘busy’.
I HATE SEWING WITH FUR THO URGH, fluff everywhere.
ugh @morvidra yeah, bronze IS tricky – though I am p good at dyeing and heavy lace picks up colour p easily, so if I must, I must. i have also just ordered a shitton of sari trims off ebay pffft what stupendous impulse control
I’m going cheap as chips with the actual dress materials, to make up for the expense of all the trims, beard, etc. Op shops and charity stores, SHOW ME YOUR CURTAINS AND DONATED QUILT COVERS. 😀
must also get crappy boots that I can murder gleefully (I KNEW THAT PLEATHER WOULD COME IN HANDY ONE DAY DAMMIT. And they scoffed at my pack-rat ways!!! *maniacal laughter*)
Good thing I don’t have to buy the materials for the corset! I’ve also got most of the necessary beads and crystals etc (another past production, lmao!!) in deep blue: just need to pick up some bronze ones and I’m good. I’ll be haunting Spotlight and the bead shops for THAT.
Now, do I want to be a lazy bum and buy a cheap-ass bridal petti, or make a new one from scratch? I have some white organza… but murrrrrrr *pulls faces* IDK. I’ll see how I feel about it one month in.
2) omg what style corset/stays/bodies are you getting/making?
3) I got my beard from here: https://shop.maxwigs.com/collections/lacey-costume/beards – I think I got the 10in in strawberry blonde, which is just a little more red than my own hair, and I trimmed the shape of it just a little bit. These are great quality human hair beards! (Well, the lace fronts. It’s obvious which of the beards are the good ones from the pictures XD)
1) A WHOLE NEW WOOOOORLD, A DAZZLING PLACE I NEEEEVER KNEW…. 😉
2) I’m covering an old one! I am not so hardcore as you, making your own. I found a cheat’s guide for an Elizabethan gown, using a pre-existing boned top or corset here at Hathaways of Haworth!!!
The corset I’m using is ANCIENT, last used for my yr12 formal. I was 17 years old! Fast forward exactly 17 years (and one child) later, and it still fits! WOOHOOOOOO. This is why I never throw anything out 🙂
3) DAMN YEAH THOSE ARE AWESOME, thank you SO MUCH! *hugs*
OKAY I AM GOING WITH THE BLUE ONE, i like the colours way better 🙂
Probably gonna make the over-sleeves eventually anyway. THEY’RE SO ELIZABETHAN. I have a heckload of faux-fur left over from a production a few years ago. It’s going to come in useful now! I can attach them or not, depends on if the dress becomes too ‘busy’.
I HATE SEWING WITH FUR THO URGH, fluff everywhere.
ugh @morvidra yeah, bronze IS tricky – though I am p good at dyeing and heavy lace picks up colour p easily, so if I must, I must. i have also just ordered a shitton of sari trims off ebay pffft what stupendous impulse control
I’m going cheap as chips with the actual dress materials, to make up for the expense of all the trims, beard, etc. Op shops and charity stores, SHOW ME YOUR CURTAINS AND DONATED QUILT COVERS. 😀
must also get crappy boots that I can murder gleefully (I KNEW THAT PLEATHER WOULD COME IN HANDY ONE DAY DAMMIT. And they scoffed at my pack-rat ways!!! *maniacal laughter*)
Good thing I don’t have to buy the materials for the corset! I’ve also got most of the necessary beads and crystals etc (another past production, lmao!!) in deep blue: just need to pick up some bronze ones and I’m good. I’ll be haunting Spotlight and the bead shops for THAT.
Now, do I want to be a lazy bum and buy a cheap-ass bridal petti, or make a new one from scratch? I have some white organza… but murrrrrrr *pulls faces* IDK. I’ll see how I feel about it one month in.
Dets, I will PERSONALLY find a con that I can come and take photos with you, if you do this. I’m not sure when, and I’m not sure how, but I will make it happen.
I’M DOIN IT BARIS RICKY PATRICK HOUKAKYOU MY LOVES, I’M DOIN IT. I am scribbling stuff on paper, trying to come up with a decent design. it is really bloody hard not to model it on an Elizabethan gown tbh
I dragged out my corset to try on and ok the romantic style isn’t gonna cut it. BUT WHAT DO I SEE, TUCKED AWAY BESIDE IT? a very severe, high-waisted corset from my graduation formal night, from when i was 17. IT. STILL. FITS – if that’s not fate I DON’T KNOW WHAT IS.
FUCKIN HECK HYEAH I AM GONNA HROCK IT AS HRERA
I HAVE TWO POSSIBLE DESIGNS
but dyou think i can choose between them???? NOSSIREE.
IMAGINE THAT THIS IS ACTUALLY BURGUNDY OK i don’t have any burgundy pens or pencils heheh
I LIKE THE FAUX-FUR OVERSLEEVES
I FUCKING ADORE BRONZE AND BLUE
(perhaps 2nd one w oversleeves attached IDEK AUGH i must ruminate upon this)
Aw Yiss 