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I wrote a quite long post about this, but managed to hit the ctrl-key and lost it all, so here we have the abridged version:
Meeting [livejournal.com profile] myladyswardrobe and talking to her (and seeing her wonderful red corset and pretty, pretty bodice) as well as hearing [livejournal.com profile] guyelfkin talking about his Kentwell costume has together with the fact that the local SCA-group, Gotvik, has 16th century Flanders as the theme for their St. Egon feast in June, managed to get me enthusiastic about my 16th century flemish dress again. I have done the headwear, the corset and the partlet and I already have a farthingale and petticoats that I can use. So all I need to do is to sew the actual dress and hand sew a high necked smock. It would be nice with a kirtle under it, but it will be okay with just a petticoat. I have also decided to make it in black after all, from some very thin wool tabby that I have. I will have to interline the bodice with heavy linen before lining it with some black linen I can buy from Anna. The skirt will be self-lined, since I have quite a lot of it and this wool is about the cheapest fabric I have. I need fulled wool for the guards and some smaller stuff, but I have the linen for the smock so I shouldn't have to spend so much money on it.
I will not give up on the 19th century dress however. I cut all the pieces for the bodice today and made one unsuccessful attempt to gather and pleat it to the lining. I will have to enlist the help of Anna to pleat and pin it while I'm wearing the corset and the lining.

Date: 2005-04-25 01:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] liadethornegge.livejournal.com
Welcome back to Sweden and yay for more 16th Century stuff!

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