Merchant's Wife costume photos
(Crossposted from my main blog: http://www.kimiko1.com/blog/?p=162)
I am horrible sometimes about getting photos taken of my work. And then trying to get those photos uploaded takes even longer.
This past weekend I dressed up in my completed MAAS Embroidery/ Wealthy Merchant's Wife outfit, as I finally had a place to wear it. It was at Caid's Coronation event. Most went Italian (so many pretty Italians it was a feast for the late period costume lover), but as I am not that into Italian, had already worn my French/Italianate style at a previous Coronation, and mainly because I never got to wear my completed Merchant's Wife outfit for Pentathlon (our kingdom's A&S big event), I decided I'd stick to that for the day.
It was a hot day (I was happy to be wearing wool instead of silks). It was a busy day meeting many people, and admiring many fine costumes. And while I had a camera and took photos of other folks and things, I just plain forgot to ask someone to take a photo of me.
So today I set up a space in the corner of the hallway, put up my dress dummy Bessie Blunt, dressed her in my outfit (and padding her blunted chest a bit), and finally took photos of the whole thing. Well, except for the coif & hat, but I'll do photos of the new coif later.
Click on the photo above, or click here, to view the photo album that has all the new outfit images including the kirtle. Just please excuse the wilted ruff. It needs a cleaning, proper starch (the store bought bottled stuff barely lasts the one day), and resetting.
Tonight I will fiddle with the coif to improve it a bit, and try to get photos of that as well. I'll post those when I can.
I am horrible sometimes about getting photos taken of my work. And then trying to get those photos uploaded takes even longer.
This past weekend I dressed up in my completed MAAS Embroidery/ Wealthy Merchant's Wife outfit, as I finally had a place to wear it. It was at Caid's Coronation event. Most went Italian (so many pretty Italians it was a feast for the late period costume lover), but as I am not that into Italian, had already worn my French/Italianate style at a previous Coronation, and mainly because I never got to wear my completed Merchant's Wife outfit for Pentathlon (our kingdom's A&S big event), I decided I'd stick to that for the day.
It was a hot day (I was happy to be wearing wool instead of silks). It was a busy day meeting many people, and admiring many fine costumes. And while I had a camera and took photos of other folks and things, I just plain forgot to ask someone to take a photo of me.
So today I set up a space in the corner of the hallway, put up my dress dummy Bessie Blunt, dressed her in my outfit (and padding her blunted chest a bit), and finally took photos of the whole thing. Well, except for the coif & hat, but I'll do photos of the new coif later.
Click on the photo above, or click here, to view the photo album that has all the new outfit images including the kirtle. Just please excuse the wilted ruff. It needs a cleaning, proper starch (the store bought bottled stuff barely lasts the one day), and resetting.
Tonight I will fiddle with the coif to improve it a bit, and try to get photos of that as well. I'll post those when I can.