VARIOUS PICTURES
Spend less time on the internet indeed..... Hahahaha. But I took some new pictures of the Regency dress with new accessories before I put it in the suitcase, and I wanted to share them. As always there are stuff that aren't perfect - this time I didn't manage/bother to close it in the back, so the dress looks a bit bigger in front that it really is. I don't really mind it, though. The shawl is great - it's offwhite, frilly and reeeeaaally long in the back. I'm wearing the Bronzino chemise underneath, because the colour and shape is so good. Not authentic, but it provides the look I want. I'm also wearing the halfway-finished bonnet - it needs a bit more decorations (like flowers and stuff), but otherwise it's good. I've also updated the Regency site: http://geocities.com/pisslei/empire
Last weekend I visited the Vikingship museum and the Norwegian Folk Museum at Bygdøy, Oslo. The Vikingship museum is quite gorgeous, shaped more or less as a medieval crosschurch inside. Three large vikingships are on display, the Oseberg ship (ca. 820), the Gokstad ship (ca. 890) and the Tune ship (ca. 900), as well as sleighs, fragments of fabrics, jewellery and different other items. There are built small "balconies", allowing people to climb up and get a view of the inside of the boat. I really love the building they made for the ships. The Oseberg ship:
The Norwegian Folk Museum has an interesting exhibition called "Ingen ting forsvinner" (nothing disappears). It focuses on the enormous amount of cheap clothes and items people buy and throw away each year, and it puts it in a historical context. The most interesting piece exhibited was (for me, anyway) a dress from Oslo ca. 1750, made of a gorgeous yellow Spitalfields silk. The dress had been re-done ca. 1790, and you could clearly see how each tiny piece of fabric was re-used in the best possible way. I especially liked the back of the bodice, but there were also interesting patching on the back of the skirt. Alas, they only sold a brochure which didn't show the dress to well, but pictures without flash were allowed so I tried to take some photos. The quality aren't the best, but here they are:
Last, but not least - there were a tiny picture in the woodcut department, used to illustrate some technical apects. But I found the dress of the woman (especially the bodice) highly interesting! Alas, no additional info of the picture were to be found, so I photographed it. Anyone familiar with where it is from, and app. when? It looks Dutch/German-ish to me, late 1400?
