Hi everyone, You are all the most amazing costume sleuths I have ever known! The links and colour info are just wonderful, and all these details! Wow! I promise I will post pics of the result. I may try making the black gown too--watching Minerva lead the defense of Hogwarts was just stupendous, and that's where the large pic of her looking so intense comes from. :) Great that modern cameras can let us see so close as to determine the pattern on a solid colour like that!
For the over-gown, I think the pre-pintucked fabric can be gotten in stores in all sorts of colours but I have yet to see it in that close a match of shade. If I find a non-tucked fabric that looks like the colour closely enough, I'll bite the bullet and pintuck it myself as the lady did in that tutorial someone posted the other day. I had not noticed all the close details (tailed collar and cuffs, thank you, De!) so those pieces of info are a godsend. I did order the "dreadful costume cape" (lol!) and noticed that the list of notions includes rigilene. This is going to be a fun challenge! :) Thanks so much! I think I will create a blog page for this project. in huge appreciation, Meli _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
