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I finished the first row!!!
Only four more to go. On the skirt. Not to mention the rest of everything. *Sigh*
But honestly, I think the binding is the hardest part, and it is considerably smaller on the overskirt than on here. (Only 21 points instead of 31!)
Anyway, we went to see Love and Friendship yesterday, and it was mostly wonderful. The men's costumes were pretty darn perfect (and omg at one point I was so distracted by how freaking amazing the portrait buttons on his jacket were that I don't think I paid attention to that scene). The women's costumes were mostly good, with the exception of most of Chloe Sevigny's (weird home dec size stripes, and oddly cut bodices), and Kate Bekinsale's. Hers were the real problem. They started out pretty good, but got worse and worse as the movie progressed. I also think she stopped wearing stays partway through, because they started fitting her very weirdly. But they also started to totally lose era-appropriate fabrics (like one dress with a tulle overlay), and era-appropriate shapes (one looked like a bad Simplicity Victorian bodice). On the other hand, most of the outfits the more minor characters were wearing were lovely!
There were a few weird issues that someone should have caught, though. In the opening sequence, they do a closeup of each person, with their character name and a brief description. On one lady, her shoulder was worn to the point of being threadbare. Later in the film, Chloe Sevigny is walking outside, wearing a petticoat with a ruffle at the hem, but the ruffle had torn off the hem for at least 1.5" along the front of the skirt. And then as Reginald DeCourcy is standing in the doorway of his bedroom partway through the movie, there is what looked like an Ackerman's Regency fashion plate from what looked like the 1810s behind him on the wall. Whoops!
But overall, it was very funny, most of the costumes were great, and I highly recommend it!
Tomorrow we're having a Victorian day at Fort Nisqually. And I will be wearing the same fabric I was yesterday for the 18th c event. I guess that's the problem with making summer dresses out of the same fabric. ;)
Only four more to go. On the skirt. Not to mention the rest of everything. *Sigh*
But honestly, I think the binding is the hardest part, and it is considerably smaller on the overskirt than on here. (Only 21 points instead of 31!)
Anyway, we went to see Love and Friendship yesterday, and it was mostly wonderful. The men's costumes were pretty darn perfect (and omg at one point I was so distracted by how freaking amazing the portrait buttons on his jacket were that I don't think I paid attention to that scene). The women's costumes were mostly good, with the exception of most of Chloe Sevigny's (weird home dec size stripes, and oddly cut bodices), and Kate Bekinsale's. Hers were the real problem. They started out pretty good, but got worse and worse as the movie progressed. I also think she stopped wearing stays partway through, because they started fitting her very weirdly. But they also started to totally lose era-appropriate fabrics (like one dress with a tulle overlay), and era-appropriate shapes (one looked like a bad Simplicity Victorian bodice). On the other hand, most of the outfits the more minor characters were wearing were lovely!
There were a few weird issues that someone should have caught, though. In the opening sequence, they do a closeup of each person, with their character name and a brief description. On one lady, her shoulder was worn to the point of being threadbare. Later in the film, Chloe Sevigny is walking outside, wearing a petticoat with a ruffle at the hem, but the ruffle had torn off the hem for at least 1.5" along the front of the skirt. And then as Reginald DeCourcy is standing in the doorway of his bedroom partway through the movie, there is what looked like an Ackerman's Regency fashion plate from what looked like the 1810s behind him on the wall. Whoops!
But overall, it was very funny, most of the costumes were great, and I highly recommend it!
Tomorrow we're having a Victorian day at Fort Nisqually. And I will be wearing the same fabric I was yesterday for the 18th c event. I guess that's the problem with making summer dresses out of the same fabric. ;)