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I stayed up way too late last night (Hey, the meme told me it was normal...) working on the sleeves. I made good progress though. I have this dream that I'll finish early and have time on Friday to cut myself out a v-neck gown in lightweight wool or silk twill, but if I'm sewing fur trim on Saturday, I won't have time to do neck facings on a dress for me. I'm determined to make one soon, though. V-neck gowns, fur notwithstanding, are brilliantly easy, especially in wool with little seam finishing and hemming needed.
As these things usually happen, we had some extrodinarily bad timing with our electronics last night. The Satellite box died, leaving us TV-less. We called Direct TV, scheduled an appointment (for Friday during the day - they'd BETTER have it fixed before Doctor Who), and I popped in a DVD to watch. No, that didn't work either. Jeff played with the video feed to the TV, but something was just refusing to work. Grrr.
In desperation, I watched The Advocate on DVD on my laptop. For some reason, I couldn't get the volume raised over a whisper, but mostly I was just looking at the costuming and Colin Firth's butt, so all was well.
I hadn't watched it in a couple of years. Even after studying 15th century costuming more, I'm still impressed. CF's gowns, the lord's gowns, the punk kid's more Italian look, and though the shape is wrong on Marie's gown and smock, she was *wearing* a smock (sometimes) and knee-high stockings. People are wearing hoods, nifty hats, the furniture is a little late but generally good.
And, AND, most of the men's gowns have cartridge-pleated sleeves. Hee hee! Documentation! Haha. Ok, maybe not, BUT it did mean that I got to see the idea executed on many different types of gowns. I hope I can get mine to look that good.
( What I got done )
( Thoughts on lining, seam finishing - including a diagram of something I tried, but isn't documentable )
As these things usually happen, we had some extrodinarily bad timing with our electronics last night. The Satellite box died, leaving us TV-less. We called Direct TV, scheduled an appointment (for Friday during the day - they'd BETTER have it fixed before Doctor Who), and I popped in a DVD to watch. No, that didn't work either. Jeff played with the video feed to the TV, but something was just refusing to work. Grrr.
In desperation, I watched The Advocate on DVD on my laptop. For some reason, I couldn't get the volume raised over a whisper, but mostly I was just looking at the costuming and Colin Firth's butt, so all was well.
I hadn't watched it in a couple of years. Even after studying 15th century costuming more, I'm still impressed. CF's gowns, the lord's gowns, the punk kid's more Italian look, and though the shape is wrong on Marie's gown and smock, she was *wearing* a smock (sometimes) and knee-high stockings. People are wearing hoods, nifty hats, the furniture is a little late but generally good.
And, AND, most of the men's gowns have cartridge-pleated sleeves. Hee hee! Documentation! Haha. Ok, maybe not, BUT it did mean that I got to see the idea executed on many different types of gowns. I hope I can get mine to look that good.
( What I got done )
( Thoughts on lining, seam finishing - including a diagram of something I tried, but isn't documentable )
