Love the idea of a ginormous court gown with 2m wide panniers on a very small woman. I wore one that large for a LARP. I rented the gown from ACT (that's a theater company here in San Francisco) that had made the gown for the horrible grasping wife character in "The Imaginary Invalid". What fun to navigate thru halls. People, especially guys, sudden turn into charming gentlemen who fetched water or picked up dropped hankies. Pairs of them opened double doors for me & simple made me feel like a queen. The whole point of this silly reminscing, is to have you remind your model/ client to practice with something that wide. Plan ahead for many eventuallities. --cin
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 6:35 AM, Rickard, Patty <ricka...@mountunion.edu> wrote: > Oh, Bjarne, > > Do keep us posted! > > Patty > > -----Original Message----- > From: h-costume-boun...@indra.com [mailto:h-costume-boun...@indra.com] On > Behalf Of Leif og Bjarne Drews > Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 9:02 AM > To: Historical Costume > Subject: [h-cost] Monster pannier. > > I dont remember before i left h-costume last, if i told you my plans for > making a court dress from 1750ies? I have baught 20 yards of a wonderfull > Brunswick&Fils floral silk brokade i want to use for this projekt. > Today while i was sitting and sewing on a pannier for a karnival dress, i > desided to go to a copy shop here in Copenhagen who has large machines that > can blow up patterns. > I want to make the pannier worn with Louise Ulrika of Swedens coronation > dress. Her pannier is 2 meters wide, but she was a small lady we must > remember. I used the center front from waist to ground to calculate the new > size its a lady who is 1 m. 20 cm. from waist to ground. I showed the man in > the shop the point i wanted to use as blowup, told him i wanted the center > front foldline to be 1m. 10 cm. > Now i am home and i have off cause tryed to meassure and its going to be > about 2 meters wide at waist level, and (my god) 6 m. 80 cm. in cirkumference > at the foot bone. > I have ben curious about the size for a long time, but i had not dreamed it > would be that monster big. I have fabric for it, and its going to be a future > projekt, i hope perhaps next year. > > Bjarne > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > > _______________________________________________ > h-costume mailing list > h-costume@mail.indra.com > http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume > _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
