Back from Double Wars

[frualeydis]

 I'm back from Double Wars and I had a wonderful time. We came home last night and since then we have been busy unpacking, mending torn clothes, etc, so Ihaven't got the energy to write about it.  I have, however, posted lots of photos over at my costuming blog, here.

When unpacking I also went through some old clothes and tried them on. This one is from 1998.

Comments

[m_nivalis]

Glad to hear you had a great time!

So, are you glad that you kept your old clothes now that they fit you again, or have your clothing standards/knowledge/skills increased to the extent that you want to remake them anyway? I'm a bit ambivalent about my old stuff, and I guess it'll be a slow change-over of both clothes and accessories as finances/priorities allow.

[frualeydis]

A little bit of both. I would say that stuff made from 1998 onwards I would still use, though I might have made the gowns in question differently if they were made today.
Some of them need re-making of course. But one should take into account that I'm in the SCA, not a re-enactment group, so nobody will give me the evil eye for using cotton velvet and the like.

/Eva

[clothsprogs]

That gown looks so sumptuous - and I don't care about the grumps who look down on the use use of cotton velvet - I've seen and handled 100% silk velvet (in Stockholm, actually, at the silk mill and museum) that looked exactly like cotton velvet (it felt diffferent, but it looked the same). so substituting cotton velvet for costume use is good enough for me, as well as more affordable and washable.

Terddy

[frualeydis]

True. I had the opportunity to fondle some 15th century silk velvet a couple of years ago and while it was soft as a kitten's belly it looked much like cotton velvet.
My biggest historial problem would be that I don't know how much velvet was used for clothing in the 2nd half of the 14th century.

/Eva

[clothsprogs]

Me neither... and it would probably differ from region-to-region and country-to-country too

Teddy