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[derien]

I'm trying hard to not read any spoilers for HP & DH. Normally I don't care, I indulge in spoilers all over the place, but this time I want to try to go into the book blank, I guess just because it's the last one. Only problem is, I didn't pre-order it or make any plan for getting it soon. I'm sort of flailing, now.

I learned to tie a mooring hitch last night, because Eor set me down with instructions and said, "This would be a good one to know for next time we're camping." :) I feel much more piratical already! Well, hey, there IS more to being a pirate than just knowing the difference between walking the plank and keelhauling, right? I should know how to do a few decent knots.


I lay awake for a while last night thinking about garb for King Richard's Faire - specifically, what goes well with the chainmail skirt Eor made for me, ages ago? I do have almost all the parts for a basic peasant outfit, now, aside from shoes. This morning I've wandered around some sites looking up gypsy garb, because I thought that was the best idea for the mail skirt, but I can't find any support for my vision. These women's outfits remind me too much of my mother. This site tells you exactly how to make a Gypsy outfit, and it looks so easy I almost want to whip one up this morning just because one could, but I can't see any way to fit a chainmail skirt into it. Really for the skirt to fit in I should do a bellydancer outfit.

The thing that probably kept me awake the most - I seem to like designing shoes in my head. I should make some, then I'd get over that. Actual work always makes me back off. ;) So, I've also been looking around at sites to find instructions for shoes. Not good. When I start looking at sites about garb, I really want to just drop it all and not bother. Seriously, people are so very picky. I attend one, or at best two, faires a year, I'm not in SCA, and I don't have any more space in my apartment for more garb. I can't worry if I've matched a fourteenth century chemise and a sixteenth century bodice! Okay, this little excercise has about convinced me to stop thinking about making shoes. I worry about shoemaking being a dying art form, but there are a few books and courses offered on it. I only want to do it so I can have shoes to fit my own feet, which are ... ugly. Hard to fit.

Comments

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

To be fair, a 14th c. chemise is basically a t-tunic, and would look awful with a 16th c. bodice, which really needs either a low-necked chemise or a heavily embroidered chemise that gathers into the collar to look good. Imagine wearing a corset over a long-sleeved t-shirt: not a sexy look.

But I fall into the "authenticity looks nicer" camp, so.

Anyway, it sounds to me like you'd be better off looking at sites for fantasy costumes, not "garb." If you're only going to Faire occasionally, you don't need to worry quite as much about constructing clothing that's wearable long-term.

And most people aren't picky at all, trust me.

[derien.livejournal.com]

Well, you're right, I should look at fantasy costumes. A part of me rebels against that, but there's absolutely nothing that's period with a chainmail skirt.

Actually, my most basic problem is that I don't want to buy anything new, because I'm a cheapskate and have no space in my house.

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

but there's absolutely nothing that's period with a chainmail skirt.

Right, so why worry? *g*

Fabric is cheaper than clothing, but also there is the Time issue. What about checking thrift stores for usable items (poet blouses and long skirts?)?

[derien.livejournal.com]

I guess I might do that, although I should also give the thrift store an equal poundage of clothes, because I have no more space in my closets.