Cornfuzzled
Lots of other things have been going on in my life lately, and I am beyond overwhelmed with it all, so I am taking it day-by-day.
However, the purpose of this post is that I need help with costuming. I cannot find my copy of Tudor Tailor, and cannot afford right now to purchase another copy :::sigh::: so I am LOST on how to get the measurements correct for the wheel/French farthingale. I have an idea how to do it, but I want to make sure that it is right. Through my research I also found that it was period correct for a woman to wear an extra large bumroll in lieu of this... I however much prefer the look of the other.
I also want to know how a person does the bodice while still leaving room for front lacing and reavers without having to install additional panels or show stitch marks.
Also, here is a portrait of Queen Margot - how in the fark did they do this?!?
Look at that collar! SCREAMS DRAMA!!! Can't you just imagine the looks of envy from the other ladies if my wife or any of the other girls in my group were to wear this?!?
I do believe however I have cracked the mystery of the pansied slops/hip roll shown in a lot of later Elizabethan and French paintings. I ran out of pattern paper, and had to use Christmas/Yule wrap... LOL. I am going to work on a muslin today just to be sure.
I did however manage to get some LOVELY fabrics from Stacey at Corona, aka the Viking Lady Ioreth. She gave me ten yards of luscious red and gold chenille floral brocade, four yards of black chenille velvet, four yards of a yummy maple leaf tapestry, and 2.5 yards of green leafy chenille brocade for only $40.00!!!!!!! The red and gold is going for April's late period Margot gown, the tapestry is for Greg, the green for Roe, and the black I am going to use on my Henrician city coat (I think).
Yay me. Work, work, work... LOL.
However, the purpose of this post is that I need help with costuming. I cannot find my copy of Tudor Tailor, and cannot afford right now to purchase another copy :::sigh::: so I am LOST on how to get the measurements correct for the wheel/French farthingale. I have an idea how to do it, but I want to make sure that it is right. Through my research I also found that it was period correct for a woman to wear an extra large bumroll in lieu of this... I however much prefer the look of the other.
I also want to know how a person does the bodice while still leaving room for front lacing and reavers without having to install additional panels or show stitch marks.
Also, here is a portrait of Queen Margot - how in the fark did they do this?!?
Look at that collar! SCREAMS DRAMA!!! Can't you just imagine the looks of envy from the other ladies if my wife or any of the other girls in my group were to wear this?!?
I do believe however I have cracked the mystery of the pansied slops/hip roll shown in a lot of later Elizabethan and French paintings. I ran out of pattern paper, and had to use Christmas/Yule wrap... LOL. I am going to work on a muslin today just to be sure.
I did however manage to get some LOVELY fabrics from Stacey at Corona, aka the Viking Lady Ioreth. She gave me ten yards of luscious red and gold chenille floral brocade, four yards of black chenille velvet, four yards of a yummy maple leaf tapestry, and 2.5 yards of green leafy chenille brocade for only $40.00!!!!!!! The red and gold is going for April's late period Margot gown, the tapestry is for Greg, the green for Roe, and the black I am going to use on my Henrician city coat (I think).
Yay me. Work, work, work... LOL.