I totally agree.
Since I am trieing to set up my own buisines in making fantasy and
gothic clothing and weddingdresses I don't have time to do much
research. And I quit the SCA and don't have reasons to wear my 16th
century stuf aneymore
I am now more in to 18th and 19th century clothing.
It takes me the same amount of time in making them but less time in
researching them.
I have a huge library of pictures collekted. And I find more reasons to
wear them.
Once I wore my red 1860's dress to a X mas party and most people saw it
as a very nice evening dress.
Last year I wore a 18th century polonaise. And this year I hope to wear
a black bustle gown like the red one in Moulin Rouge or
in Van Helsing. But I would never wear my 16th century clothing to a
modern party.
It is also less frustrating. There is so much unknown about the cloting
before the 18th century.
And somehow I really don't like the 17th century.
And the fabrics are cheaper. I can use cotton. I like linnen and silks
more but can't afford the silks anymore since the Euro.
In a lot of stores here where you can hire clothing and you ask for
medieval you get 18th century.
I like to make fantasy and gothic versions of 18th and 19th century
clothing.
And since there are more party's now where people can wear them I hope
that they will buy them.
Because I haven't seen anyone who makes historical based fantasy and
gothic clothing here in the Netherlands.
And if they do it is almost alway's Carnaval stuf. Very cheap and over
the top.
well OK, maybe making them is equally difficult but there is a great deal of
difference in _researching_ them.
If I want to make an 1860s morning dress I have thousands of fashion plates,
contemporary patterns and instructions, photos of real people in real
clothes (not an artist's slightly idealised version of what a member of the
aristocracy was wearing on a formal occasion) and a few hundred extant
garments to copy (obviously a lot of those are in private collections and
therefore inaccessible to most members of the general public but you get the
point).
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