Doll Divine

[ellen_kushner]

So I come into Delia's study to find her dressing up this Tudor chick.

The conversation, had you been overhead to overhear, was something like this:

--Oh! Oh! Oh!  I want hanging sleeves!

-- No, they look like this, see? (click)  The problem is, I know how it actually should be [historically].

-- Oh. Right.

-- And you can change scenes, see?

--- Ooo!

Comments

[just_ann_now]

Yes, it must be Riverside House, judging by that painting over the fireplace. She looks like butter wouldn't melt in her mouth, as the expression goes. She's definitely up to something.

You did a lovely job describing Alec in all that black velvet, and the glittering jet buttons, and the diamond earring *swoon*. I can picture all that very vividly! But when I started coming across all that lovingly described gentlemen's clothing in TFOTK, I said to myself, "That must be Delia's doing."

[ellen_kushner]

You made us laugh out loud! Because of course you've nailed it.

Have you read Delia's THE PORCELAIN DOVE? 400 pages of 18c clothing porn - including, of course, how to clean it all.

[just_ann_now]

I have indeed. I'm a sucker for lavish and lovingly detailed descriptions, and The Porcelain Dove made me very, very happy in that regard.

[tamago]

Ahahahaha! My son (age 5) was just playing with this not fifteen minutes since! He luuurves Doll Divine. My husband knows too much about the fashion of the English Regency to be anything but annoyed with the Dandy maker, but I had a great time playing around to make pretty boys in ruffly shirts.

[ellen_kushner]

Delia's already done us a Regency Dandy. She's on your team!

[tamago]

Go, go, Team Dandy!

My husband is developing distinctly chappist tendencies as he ages. His midlife crisis involved listening to Mr. B Gentleman Rhymer on endless repeat whilst browsing eagerly through swatch catalogs of expensive tweed fabrics.

[gows]

Ohhh, god - now I wanna do the Black Rose. In that famous portrait of her as The Empress. Must.....Resist.........

Wait . . . this is a problem why?

[ellen_kushner]

It comes perilously close to crafting - and I Don't Do Crafting.

Delia, on the other hand, knits (and used to quilt & put up jam & alla that) - and the Black Rose was originally her character - so maybe we'll do it together. Just this once....

mmm, nice

[auroramama]

Dear Spouse agrees with me: she looks like she's just waiting for the portrait to be done so she can get out of those clothes too fast for the human eye to follow. But they are sumptuous and becoming.

Re: mmm, nice

[ellen_kushner]

Thank you!

[huladavid]

I'm reading THE PRIVILEGE OF THE SWORD for the first time.

[ellen_kushner]

Yeah? How is it?