Greetings to the List!
Thanks to Cin for her original query on my behalf about the Shinrone
Gown. I have loved reading all your comments. It was just what I
needed to enable me to take a better look at Kass's conclusions about
the gown. Until further experience teaches me different, I am tempted
to trust her assertions. She at least has had the privilege of
examining the garment in question.
By way of introduction, I am not new to h-costume, but have not been
onlist for many years. Something about my life having blown up in my
face and the resultant years of not much actual costuming. Beside the
point for now.
So then. I've been sewing for lots of years, and almost from the
beginning I was attempting to make costumes. A gracious fast forward
beyond the newby state goes here; I finally settled into the 19th
century, which seemed to me like home. My first attempt at serious
costuming was for an 1835 day dress. With no patterns available to
me, I researched and then devised my own pattern based on a sloper.
Were it not for the plastic lace trim, it might have been a good
effort. But aren't we all hypercritical of our own first efforts!
Since then, I have constructed my own corsets, tatted and crocheted
my own lace, taxidermied duck wings for a hat, made my own hatpins,
knit my own socks, and all sorts of other related games. I call
myself a woman of many evil habits (all too true). I also have
several antique printing presses, and more fonts of lead than of pixels.
Costumes don't hurt as much when they fall on your toes.
With not much in the way of reenactment or museum costuming where I
live now, I have decided to go early Irish. I liked the look of the
Shinrone Gown, and have never been one to reject a challenge. It
certainliy will be.
So, thank you one and all for your valuable opinions about the task
ahead of me!
== Marjorie Wilser
=:=:=:Three Toad Press:=:=:=
"Learn to laugh at yourself and you will never lack for amusement." --MW
http://3toad.blogspot.com/
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