Tissot Dress and Hatching Plans

[rose_bertin]

Tissot Dress

I've always loved Tissot's painting Too Early from 1873. And then one day I decided 'to hell with it, I'm going to make the pink dress'. And then mandie_rw wanted in and somehow a group formed that is making all the dresses in the painting. There's no specified timeline, but I'd like to have my dress done in time for Dress U (as I'm currently

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[rose_bertin]

Yeah, I realized that after I went to bed. I guess I'll just have to play with it when I actually start draping it on the form and see if the ruffles work with the gathering on the bodice or not.

[zafania]

he may even have had the dress in his studio and just used it to dress models and pose them, its not without precedent.

Its ever so pink, isn't it?

[jackie_faye]

It also shows up in "Ball on Shipboard" by him, in the background (in two places, possibly), so I think you're right.

There's a glimpse of it in the left center, and possibly in the lower right with a different bodice.

[banshea]

And because I am a total dork, my only real thought is, "Oh, that poor macaw! His plumage looks awful, whatever can they be feeding him??"

[rapta]

I pretty much thought the exact same thing when I saw him. My guess is probably what a lot of people who don't do research think parrots ought to eat: nothing but millet and other seeds, when in fact they need quite a bit of fruit.

[banshea]

Actually, I was reading something that had an account from somewhere around the time in question, and it said that the parrot ate cake soaked in milk.

[droxy]

What lovely dresses!

[ilaydanur]

Those dresses are beautiful!