PHOTO GALLERY 4
This is a really bad photo of one of my 18th century (c. 1770's) gowns.
(The picture is so overexposed you can barely see the lovely fichu draping
my shoulders. There were also a few water spots on the photo, which I tried
to fix in Photoshop. Unfortunately, this is the only print of this photo --
I have no idea where the film is.) The picture was snapped by a co-worker
at EF Hutton Life Insurance in October 1985 for our Halloween masquerade.
Normally I would never wear any of my historical costumes for Halloween --
but the whole Licensing department begged me to wear one this time. Never,
ever again! Do you have any idea how difficult it is to sit in a 20th
century office chair wearing three skirts, a panier and a corset???? Pretty
DAMN difficult. Anyway, I eschewed wearing my white velvet (handmade) hat
and gloves -- even though it would have completed the outfit (not that anyone
at work noticed them missing). Worse, though, is the stupid Hutton name badge
clipped beneath the bodice (oh, THAT looks "period"). I forgot to
remove the dang thing for the picture. This was the year of the "Amadeus"
film so most people recognized that this was an 18th century garment. Close
enough. This particular gown debuted at Costume Con II in 1984 (and again,
"mundane" hotel guests upon seeing the costume would remark, "'Amadeus,'
right?" -- to which I would reply, "Late eighteenth century, yes."
Close enough.).
 My Leodamas of Thebes costume, September 1983. This particular SCA event is an annual Greek-style tourney -- this one, of course, held in the Barony of Califia, Kingdom of Caid. |
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 Unfortunately I didn't have a picture taken of my Leodamas costume for the 1984 tourney. It was patterned and looked a bit more authentic than this one. |
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Ah,
my first full costume! It's a late Tudor (and don't worry, animal lovers,
that's not real fur on the sleeves!). I made the costume (in a
hurry) for Costume Con I, January 1983. Unfortunately I didn't have time
(nor the guidelines yet) to make the proper corset. So...I improvised:
I sewed a triangle of buckram into the bodice, taking care to line it
with cotton broadcoth (buckram gets pretty sticky when it becomes moist...and
of course it's pretty easy to get sweaty wearing a few pounds of brocade).
This also marked my first attempt at constructing a ruff (the ruffly thing
around my neck). Eventually I became quite the ruff-maker (a marketable
profession...in the the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, that is!).
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Very early Renaisssance -- the dress started out as a basic Norman gown (sewn by my friend, Sharon Sisemore, aka Elysia of Woodhaven). I later "inherited" the dress, adding a collar and (hand-sewn) hennin. The dress had a long and cumbersome train (that's why it's wrapped around my legs). The dress debuted at the Califian Viking Tourney, October 1982. |
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