Mwuahaha!

[frualeydis]

This gown is so hideously unflattering that it's funny. It makes me look twice the size I am and like I have no waist.
The cause of this is of course that the gown has no opening, so everything has to be at least the same width as my bust. If it was tight it would have looked much better, but I'm not arguing with weird medieval aesthetics; sometimes it differs quite a lot from modern ideals of beauty.

Comments

[sismith42.livejournal.com]

When do we get to see the pictures? yay for finishing project, though!

[frualeydis.livejournal.com]

It's not finished yet, I had just pinned it together.

/Eva

[merastra.livejournal.com]

Eeep. I'm glad you're more amused by it than annoyed though. :-) I'd have been peeved.

[mirazandar.livejournal.com]

post a photophoto

[therru.livejournal.com]

It's a bit like the folk costumes for the south-west of Scania -- if you make and wear them the way they should be, they make you look like a little barrel. Which I suppose was an ideal in older times, not so much with the waist and the boobies. Needless to say, a lot of people getting those costumes tend to lower the wastline drastically, and use more lightweight wool for the skirt part, in order to look more appealing to modern eyes. I considered that too, at first, but after a while I sort of got used to the look, and now I fully intend to look like a proper barrel. When I finally get to make the costume.