Hi everyone, A friend is throwing a costume party next month and has decided
the theme is 'an Irish wake' so she wants everyone in black or green, so
when the topic of mourning comes up I tend to think Victorian as I already
had plans for a natural form dress I just decided to bump this project to
the top of my list and make it mourning wear. But I'm stuck on headwear, I
have a chiffon scarf that would work OK as a widow's veil. It is a long
thin rectangle so it won't work just draped over my head, but if I attach
the long side to the edge of a hat it should work OK as a veil (I
experimented with pinning it to the inside of my sun hat and it came down to
about an inch below my shoulders). I have about 1/2 a metre of buckram
(though it's not proper millinery buckram) and some wire left over from
making the crescent of my 16th century French hood plus some scraps of black
velveteen or satin to cover it. I've also got Butterick 4210 which I might
be able to adapt, but I don't have money to buy a bonnet and I don't really
want to spend much money on this costume (as the only place I can usually
wear Victorian stuff is a dance so bonnets/hats aren't really appropriate)
thanks
Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Walpole | Elizabeth Beaumont
Canberra, Australia | Politarchopolis, Lochac
http://au.geocities.com/e_walpole/
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